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Vocabulary
Chapter 4.1
Chapter 4.2
Chapter 4.3
Chapter 4.4
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What is population
A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.
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What is Green Revolution?
What is a modern farming method that uses scientifically produced varieties of grain and fertilizer, pesticides, and water to increase crop yields.
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Put this in order: packaging, production, distribution, processing
Put this in order: packaging, production, distribution, processing.production, processing, packaging, distribution
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A process in which machine drills holes in the topsoil for planting seeds without turning the soil over at all.
What is no-till cultivation?
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What is Genetic engineering
Allows scientist to alter the physical characteristics of plants/ animals.
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What is substance farming
farming that just meets the farmer's survival needs; just meets the farmer's survival needs; that is, farmers rasie just enough to feed themselves and their families.
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Domesticate animals, oxen, Horse, Native and Europeans, Revolution Put this in order: the horse drawn plow, Native American show Europeans how to grown corn and tomatoes, farmers use oxen-pulled plows. people domesticate animals, the agricultural revolution.
Domesticate animals, oxen, Horse, Native and Europeans, Revolution
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Northeast regionIdentify the agricultural region in which Pennsylvania is located.
Northeast region
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USDA, FDA, AND THE EPA
List three U.S. government agencies that regulate food safety.
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Describe the importance of the cotton gin, the steel plow, and pasteurization in the advancement of agriculture.
They have helped farmers and the advancement of agriculture by making it easier to farm.
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What is genetic engineering.
What is genetic engineering Alters the physical characteristics of plants and animals.
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It brought new industrialized farming method.How have the green revolution benefited farmers in developed countries?
It brought new industrialized farming method
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List three aspects of the food and fiber system that our government regulates.
Milk, eggs, meat and grains.
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It makes sure soil retains it's nutrients.
How does crop rotation enrich soil?
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What is Biotechnology
The management or manipulation of living organisms for the benefit of people.
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What is the Hardy-Weinberg principal
What is the Hardy-Weinberg principal The Hardy-Weinberg principle states that both allele and genotype frequencies in a population remain constant-that is, they are in equilibrium-from generation to generation unless specific disturbing influences are introduced.
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Identify three characteristics that make the U.S. food and fiber system succeccful
Some of the most fertile soil on Earth, a favorable climate, and access to the most advanced farm machinery.
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List three factors that help determine the crops that will grown in a region.
Climate, soil and land forms
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Two positives are Helps crops grow faster and Makes crops go bigger, taste better. ect. Two negatives are Not natural and you are eating chemicals
List two positive and negative aspects of using artifival chemicals fertilizers.
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Summarize the way the manipulation of genes can improve crop plants
They can make crops bigger and tastier
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What is Exponential growth?
Growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size
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How does the availability of large quantities of cheap food developed countries affect the standard of living of the people there
More people can buy food at a cheaper price.
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In which region is irrigation used to grown an abundance of crops? Why could this become an environmental problems
The Pacific region. And is a flooding hazard.
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The USDA helps ensure food safety by inspecting meat in slaughter houses and processing plants.
summarize the duties of the USDA in the area of food safety.
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Put this in order: Tractor, chemical fertilizers, barbed wire, cast-iron plow, cotton gin, reaper, pasteurization, steel plow and transcontinental
Cotton gin, cast-iron plow, reaper, steel plow, chemical fertilizers, transcontinental, barbed wire, pasteurization, tractor