Agriculture and Sustainability

What does sustainability mean?

• Using lots of resources.

• Maintaining the world we live in for future generations.

• Cutting down trees.

• Using lots of water and electricity.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The _________ is a government agency that serves us by enforcing and forming laws that protect the environment.

• DDT

• EPA

• CIA

• FBI

A measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate

• Ecology
• Ecological Footprint
• Environment

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What do we call it when an ecosystem is able to maintain its structure and be stable over time?

• It is dependable.
• It is sustainable.
• It is independent.
• It is adaptable.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Sustainability is to 

• maintain our resources for the future generation 
• not to use the natural resources
• not to pollute the environment 
• use only clean energy 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Agriculture is best defined as 

• the hunting and gathering
• the altering genetic material of plants
• the cultivation of plants/domesticating animals
• using technology to increase production

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Amount of crops produced per unit area

• Diet
• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Yield

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Process by which human activities or climate change make areas more desert-like

• Desertification
• Domesticated
• Arable
• Overharvesting

A poison used to destroy pests

• Biological Pest Control
• Pesticide
• Genetic Engineering
• Overharvesting

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Practice that modifies the genome of living organisms for industrial use

• Domesticated
• Livestock
• Biological pest control
• Genetic engineering

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NGSS.MS-LS4-5