land use test

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• contour plowing
• lying fallow
• leeching
• erosion

What is of effect of habitat loss?

• fewer types of organisms
• greater diversity of organisms
• organisms that are less adaptable to change 
• increasing area of wetlands 

Which is not a part of agriculture?

• farming
• raising livestock
• buying property
• harvesting crops

When human activity and natural process damage land to the point it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

• Urbanization

• Erosion

• Land Degradation

• Deforestation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the name of fuel that comes from corn?

• Ethanol
• Gasoline
• Diesel
• Biodiesel