Chapter 9 & 10
Farming techniques that don’t use synthetic inorganic fertilizers and pesticides are described as _____ .
Organic
Approximately what percentage of the adults in the US are considered obese?
40%
Vertical Meadows on London's streets are filled with what type of plant?
Wildflowers
Used water from your clothes washer can be described by what term?
Greywater
Cultural eutrophication is more likely to degrade _____________ & ponds than fast-moving streams and rivers.
Lakes
Africa grows and exports lots of crops to ____.
The European Union / Europe
Odonata's are more commonly known as what?
Dragonflies
The city of Wichita gets most of their water from where?
Cheney Resevoir
A word that refers specifically to VARIETY in relation to agricultural CROPS.
Agrobiodiversity
Greenhouse Gases
Name a poisonous Lepidoptera.
Monarch
What is difference between bottled spring and distilled water?
spring water is bottled at natural sources, distilled water is filtered in factories
Damaging algal blooms occur when this key element is not available.
Name the THREE elements of food security.
nutrition, affordability, stable supply (acceptable: quanitity/enough/variety)
Which of the Araneae causes abdominal cramps, pain, nausea, sweating, and trembling if it bites you?
Black Widow
Name a country you can NOT drink tap water in?
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/drink-tap-water-50-countries/
(most of: S. America, Africa, Russia, Middle East/Asia)
The term to describe government money used to keep the price of water low, which promotes water waste.
Subsidies
What desert animal is good for milk?
Camel
Name a pollinator other than a bee.
Birds, Bats, Reptiles, Butterflies, Moths, Flies, Beetles, Wasps, Ants
Describe the subatomic size of a water molecule.
Water is TINY! Similar to the size of a carbon atom. Smaller than even viruses!