Food and Agriculture

farming methods in which each family in a community grows crops for themselves and rely on animal and human labor to plant and harvest crops

• Pesticide resistance

• traditional agriculture

• monoculture

• biological pest control

Agricultural revolution that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation; helped to support rising populations.

• no -till farming

• cover cropping

• malnutrition

• green revolution

fertilizers that are manufactured using chemical processes

• genetic engineering

• pesticide resistance

• synthetic fertilizer

• persistant pesticide

The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

• topsoil

• erosion

• calorie

• pheromone

Combined use of biological, chemical, and cultivation methods in proper sequence and timing to keep the size of a pest population below the size that causes economically unacceptable loss of a crop or livestock animal.

• Industrialized agriculture

• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• Biological Pest control

• terraces farming

a crumbly, dark brown soil that is a mixture of dead organic matter, clay, other minerals, and living things.

• erosion

• topsoil

• pheremone

• cover cropping

Method for reducing soil erosion; plant stalks are left in the field after harvesting and the next year's crop is planted within the stalks without plowing.

• no-till farming

• cover - cropping

• contour plowing

• terraces farming

farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year

• polyculture

• terraces farming

• contour plowing

• monoculture

decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer.

• topsoil

• compost

• polyculture

• calorie

A chemical released by one animal that affects the behavior of another animal of the same species.

• erosion

• pheremone

• nutrient

• pesticide