Sustainable Farming

Which practice uses the most water

• Personal

• Business

• Agriculture

• Industry

What produce (fruits and vegetables) are grown in the Okanagan?

• Cherries, Peaches, Apples, Plums

• Mangos, Pineapples, Strawberries

• Bananas, Watermelons, Plums

• Cherries, Bananas, Apples, Watermelons

The wearing away of soil by water or wind

• waterlogging

• erosion

• desertification

• salinization

The process by which fertile soil loses its topsoil and becomes eroded and sandy. (No longer usable to agriculture)

• humidification

• water logging

• salinization

• desertification

Pesticides kill...?

• bugs

• animals

• fungi

• plants

Which of the following resources does sustainability try to fix?

• Pollution in the ocean

• Household resources being wasted

• Cows burping methane and adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

• All of the above

Energy conservation is...?

• Running our power plants off of Monster Energy Drinks

• Using only solar power.

• The effort to use less energy or use it more wisely.

• Not using any energy at all including electronics.

The definition of recycling is....?

• The process of turning trash into something new

• Reusing something like an empty water bottle

• Not using as many resources

• Burning trash to keep it out of landfills

Which of the following is NOT a sustainable practice?

• Waste Reduction

• Green Building

• Energy Conservation

• Non-Renewable Energy

What is the definition or goal of sustainability?

• Using the resources we have as quickly as possible before they are gone.

• We live to meet our own needs while making sure future generations have the resources they need as well.

• The saving or storing of a resource

• Money, time and effort spent using a resource