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WorksheetsChapter 14 Environmental Science Putman
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
_______ agriculture- involves the cutting down and burning of trees and other vegetation a small area of forest.
Shifting
Burning
vegtable
Swapping
____________ agriculture – a form of farming involving the tilling, and cultivation of land by hand with a great deal of manual labor.
Till farming
Labor-intensive
manual labor
Hard work
_____________ are important because they replace the soil nutrients removed by plants.
macronutriens
micronutrients
Fertilizers
minerals
______________ are the three primary nutrients often in short supply are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.
fertilizers
minerals
micronutrients
Macronutrients
___________ are Certain necessary elements in extremely small amounts
Micronutrients
minerals
macronutrients
fertilizers
___________ are a chemical used to control or kill populations of unwanted fungi, animals or plants.
Pesticides
poisions
Raid
anti fungi
__________ – unwanted populations of fungi, animals or plants.
Buggs
Rodents
over population
Pest
________ are unwanted plants.
Grass
over seeding
Weeds
brush
__________ – Anything that that kills something living.
Herbicides
pesticides
Biopoisions
Biocides
___________ ____________ is when the actual pest targeted.
Specific organism
Target organism
Targeted pest
Pin point
_________ organisms – unintended killing of plant, animal or fungus by a pesticide.
unintended
Mass kill poision
Broad cast
Nontarget
________ is a synthetic plant-growth regulators that mimic natural-growth regulators
Auxins
biocides
Tetracides
Synthol
_____________- The process of accumulating higher and higher amounts of material inside the body of an animal.
Bioaccumulation
mineral accumulation
Bioremediation
Decomposition
_____________ – A chemical released by insects to attract a mate.
Perfume
Cologne
Hormones
Pheromones
__________ engineering – is the insertion of DNA in an organism to give it traits that are desirable in the crop, such as insect resistance, or immune to Roundup herbicide.
Genetic
Organic
Plant
Resistance
