APES –5.4-5.5 Impact of Agricultural & Irrigation Method

The system by which farmers would rotate the types of crops grown in each field as to not deplete the soil of its natural resources.

• Mercantilism

• Proletarianization

• Crop Rotation

• Creole

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Toxins that get passed up the food chain in increasing amounts

• biomagnification

• compaction

• compounding

• non-elimination

environmental advantage of no-till agriculture

• less erosion

• decrease in labor costs

• increased use of herbicides and pesticides

• increased need for irrigation

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Emphasis on use of pesticides, herbicides, and monoculture

• green revolution

• agricultural revolution

• industrial revolution

• subsistence agriculture

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What form of nitrogen is found in the atmosphere and then captured by nitrogen fixing bacteria?

• N₂

• NH₄

• NO₂

• NO₃

"Roundup ready" GM crops are genetically modified to

• be resistant to Roundup, a glyphosate herbicide

• resist freezing temperatures

• reproduce quickly and enable farmers to save seeds

• be easier to harvest

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Which of the following would be best addressed with contour plowing?

• eutrophication

• soil erosion

• soil salinization

• pesticide tredmill

Intensive agriculture is associated with all of these, except:

• plantations

• polycultures

• maximizing crop yield

• greenhouses

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The Green Revolution included all of these practices, except:

• maximizing crop yield

• using large amounts of fertilizers

• multi-cropping

• organic farming techniques

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Desertification usually occurs when

• humans leave an area alone to undergo secondary succession
• soil productivity decreases due to drought and poor farming practices
• winds carry large amounts of sand from nearby deserts
• irrigation water is continually used in arid regions of the country

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