Land use

Removal of all marketable trees from an area.

• Selective Cutting
• Controlled Burn 
• Thinning
• Clear Cutting

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What is land called that is suitable for farming?

• Growable
• Fallow
• Arable 
• Plantable

_______ are chemicals which kill weeds.

• Fertilizers
• Fungicides
• Rodenticides
• Herbicides

Environmental causes of land degradation include...

• poverty, urban sprawl, deforestation
• deforestation, bio-industries, poverty
• overgrazing, deforestation, agriculture
• agriculture, urban sprawl, poverty

Define Agriculture

• A resource that can be replaced after being used through natural or human process.

• A resource that can’t be replaced after being used through natural or human process.

• Production of many diverse types of food or fiber; geography, climate, tradition, and availability of resources.

• Farming

What is the application of scientific principles and new technologies to agriculture?

• Agriscience

• Chemistry

• Agronomists

• Science

Agriscience is considered an applied science because it applies knowledge of what sciences?

• biology

• chemistry

• physics

• telepathy

The result of overgrazing in semi-arid climates is

• environmental modification
• desertification
• aquaculture
• desalination

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Farming practices like plowing, irrigation, and overfarming/grazing lead to loss of topsoil through __________.

• contour plowing
• lying fallow
• leeching
• erosion

What is the best term for a chemical that kills organisms that are unwanted and cause economic damage?

• insecticide
• pesticide
• herbicide
• pathogens