AG Week 4

_______________is the science of altering living organisms, often through genetic manipulation, to create new products for specific purposes, such as crops that resist certain pests.

• Biotechnology

• Biodiversity

• Indigenous Agriculture

• Aquifer

• Environmental determinism

The term___________ describes the variety and variability of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture.

• Agricultural biodiversity

• Biotechnology

• Genetically modified organism

• Possibilist

• Hybrid

the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, algae, and other organisms in all types of water environments is known as......

• aquaculture

• Urban fishing

• organic farming

• biodiversity

• animal domestication

a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food.

• locavore

• Local Supply chain

• Suburbanization

• Food Desert

• Carnivore

_____________purchases shares in the output of a local farm. During the growing season, they receive a weekly box or bushel of freshly harvested produce from the farm. In return, farmers who opperate_________ receive a guaranteed income from the sale of shares.

• Community Supported Agriculture

• Slash and burn agriculture

• Subsistence farming

• Genetically modified Organisms

• Urban farming

___________is the reliable access to safe, nutritious food that can support a healthy and active lifestyle.

• Full cupboard movement

• Food security

• Food insecurity

• Urban farming

• Trader Joe's

___________, is the disruption of a household's food intake or eating patterns because of poor access to food..

• Food security

• Food insecurity

• Deforestation

• Food desert

• Food dessert

__________areas where residents lack access to healthy, nutritious foods because stores selling these foods are too far away.

• Wetlands

• Food insecurity Sections

• Food desert

• Commodity crisis

• Suburbanization

_________is the reduced costs of producing food items as the quantity of production increases

• Economy of scale

• World Hunger

• Food Insecurity

• Agriculture Bulk

• Agricultural innovations

The process of _____________expands cities and suburbs which can encroach on productive farmland

• Suburbanization

• Urbanization

• Rural Life Style Movement

• Counterurbanization

• Desertification