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34 Cards in this Set
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Another name for organic farming is....
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sustainable agriculture
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Growing enough food to meet the needs of you and your family is called....
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subsistence farming
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Growing a wide variety of crops on a farm is...
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polyculture
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Growing of a single type of plant on a farm is...
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monoculture
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Not getting the proper nutrients needed for growth is....
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malnutrition
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Not getting enough energy or calories in your diet is ....
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undernutrition
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Swidden or the burning of the land, growing on it, moving on, and repeating is....
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slash & burn agriculture
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Is slash & burn agriculture a sustainable method for a large population?
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NO.
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Inability to meet basic needs of food an shelter is an attribute of....
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absolute poverty
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Severe, long term lack of food is...
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famine
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Do we have enough food to go around?
Do we do a good job of getting it there? |
Yes
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The number one crop in the world consists of....
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grains
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The basic idea of the Cartagena Protocol is the p____ p_____ whereby a country can reject a GMO if there is reasonable suspicion to suggest that something bad can happen
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precautionary principle
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One way that we can make more food available to the rest of the world is for us (U.S.) to eat les....
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meat
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The root cause of hunger is....
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poverty
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People will die if we exceed the earth's ____ ______.
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carrying capacity
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Which activity contributes to the majority of the world's tropical rain forests?
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Cattle grazing
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The major greenhouse gas released by cattle is...
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methane
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Debt-ridden developing countries are raising __ ___ to get out of debt instead of raising food.
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cash crops
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The contamination of freshwater aquifers by salt water is called...
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saltwater intrusion
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A person who makes a living by raising livestock is a....
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pastoralist
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The addition of animal _____ & crop _____to soil is a component of organic/sustainable agriculture.
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manure
residue |
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The contamination of freshwater aquifers by salt water is called...
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saltwater intrusion
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A person who makes a living by raising livestock is a....
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pastoralist
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Rice farming areas are plagued with the disease ____ because of the ____ that breed in the wet conditions.
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malaria
mosquitoes |
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GMOs are .....
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genetically modified organims
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The main energy source for the Green Revolution is...
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fossil fuel
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The manufacture of ____ and ____ consumes an enormous amount of fossil fuel
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fertilizer
pesticides |
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The government program that pays farmers to NOT farm their land (to protect soil & ag prices) is called....
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CRP, Conservation Reserve Program
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When we over water our crops with river/lake water, we cause _____ and subsequently _____
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waterlogging
salinization |
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The top crops grown are ____, ____ , ____, _____
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corn
soybeans rice wheat |
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The Nobel Prize winner who genetically modified wheat to grow in Mexico is....
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Norman Borlaug
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Ranching (raising cattle) requires ___x more land than just feeding the grains directly to humans.
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12
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____ ____ is a bacterium with a gene which when introduced to crops, it makes the crops......
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Bacillus thuringensis
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