Sustainability City

___________________ is a process to get water to plants.

Efficient irrigation equipment can eliminate over-watering by monitoring temperature, soil moisture, leaf wetness and humidity.

• True

• False

This process keeps soil in good condition by planting different crops in each field each season.

• bio-soil

• composting

• crop rotation

• slash and burn

Benefits of compost spreading include all the following except:

• improve soil preparation

• better smelling produce

• provide nutrients in a stable form

• conserve water

Compost is put in piles called _______________.

• windows

• bio-piles

• bales

• windrows

Alternative energy is

• Generated by natural resources and is renewable
• man made
• nonrenewable
• not helpful to us in Texas

 Energy from the sun is known as......... 

• hydroelectric energy
• geothermal energy
• solar energy
• wind energy

What does renewable mean?

• to protect from loss

• able to be replaced

• to put money or resources toward something

• to move forward

• to increase to the greatest possible amount

Glass can be recycled endlessly without losing quality or purity.

• True

• False

Someone who makes a product to sell is a ____________.

• human resource
• consumer
• producer
• trader