Agribusiness
Types of Agriculture
Agricultural Revolutions
Issues in Agriculture
Resource Challenges
100

What is the protection of natural environments and wildlife that ensures their sustainability for future generations?

What is Conservation?

100

What is it when human obtain food by hunting animals, fishing, and foraging for edible plants, rather than through agriculture or animal husbandry?

What is hunting and gathering?

100

What is the name of the first agricultural revolution?

What is Neolithic Revolution?

100

What does GMO stand for?

What is Genetically Modified Organisms?

100

What a natural resources that can be replenished by ecological cycles or management practices?

What is renewable resources?

200

What is the accumulation of water-soluble salts in the soil?

What is soil salinization?
200

What is raising herds of domesticated livestock, often moving with them in search of grazing lands?

What is pastoral nomadism?

200

Who is the father of the Green Revolution?

Who is Norman Borlaug?

200

What is the cultivation of a single crop in a given area?

What is monoculture?

200
What is a natural resource that exists in infinite quantities and cannot by replenished within a human timescale?

What is nonrenewable resources?

300

What is growing two crops on the same land within the same growing season?

What is double cropping?

300
What is it when land is cleared for short-term cultivation, then abandoned to allow natural vegetation to regenerate and restore soil fertility?

What is shifting cultivation?

300

Where did the 2nd agricultural revolution come from?

Where is England in the 17th-18th century?

300

What is it when people do not have reliable access to good food?

What is food insecurity?

300

What is solar, wild, hydroelectricity, geothermal, biomass, nuclear, tidal power?

What is alternative energy sources?

400

What is the practice of growing different crops in the same area over multiple growing seasons?

What is crop rotation?

400

What is large-scale farming with low inputs of labor and capital per unit of land?

What is extensive commerical agriculture?

400

What was a major contribution of the Green Revolution?

What is led to increased crop productivity and food availability, though with some regional disparities?

400

What is it when businesses increase its production volume?

What is economies of scale?

400

What is it when oil is extracted and natural gas from shale rock formations?

What is fracking?

500

What are raised beds to improve soil health, reduce erosion, and potentially warm the soil faster, while also retaining water?

What is ridge tillage?

500

What is it when farmers cultivate large areas of land with minimal labor inputs to produce enough food for their families?

What is extensive subsistence level?

500

Which is an agricultural revolution that had crop rotation, selective breeding, and mechanization, leading to increased food production and population growth?

What is the British Agricultural Revolution?

500

What is a network of labor and production processes that transforms raw materials into a finished product, encompassing all stages from extraction or production to final consumption and disposal? 

What is a commodity chains?

500

What is it when the Earths crust is made up of large plates that move over a molten layer of rock?

What is plate tectonics?