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Chapter 14 Environmental Science Putman

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

_______ agriculture- involves the cutting down and burning of trees and other vegetation a small area of forest.

a)

Shifting

b)

Burning

c)

vegtable

d)

Swapping

2.

____________ agriculture – a form of farming involving the tilling, and cultivation of land by hand with a great deal of manual labor.

a)

Till farming

b)

Labor-intensive

c)

manual labor

d)

Hard work

3.

_____________ are important because they replace the soil nutrients removed by plants.

a)

macronutriens

b)

micronutrients

c)

Fertilizers

d)

minerals

4.

______________ are the three primary nutrients often in short supply are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.

a)

fertilizers

b)

minerals

c)

micronutrients

d)

Macronutrients

5.

___________ are Certain necessary elements in extremely small amounts

a)

Micronutrients

b)

minerals

c)

macronutrients

d)

fertilizers

6.

___________ are a chemical used to control or kill populations of unwanted fungi, animals or plants.

a)

Pesticides

b)

poisions

c)

Raid

d)

anti fungi

7.

__________ – unwanted populations of fungi, animals or plants.

a)

Buggs

b)

Rodents

c)

over population

d)

Pest

8.

________ are unwanted plants.

a)

Grass

b)

over seeding

c)

Weeds

d)

brush

9.

__________ – Anything that that kills something living.

a)

Herbicides

b)

pesticides

c)

Biopoisions

d)

Biocides

10.

___________ ____________ is when the actual pest targeted.

a)

Specific organism

b)

Target organism

c)

Targeted pest

d)

Pin point

11.

_________ organisms – unintended killing of plant, animal or fungus by a pesticide.

a)

unintended

b)

Mass kill poision

c)

Broad cast

d)

Nontarget

12.

________ is a synthetic plant-growth regulators that mimic natural-growth regulators

a)

Auxins

b)

biocides

c)

Tetracides

d)

Synthol

13.

_____________- The process of accumulating higher and higher amounts of material inside the body of an animal.

a)

Bioaccumulation

b)

mineral accumulation

c)

Bioremediation

d)

Decomposition

14.

_____________ – A chemical released by insects to attract a mate.

a)

Perfume

b)

Cologne

c)

Hormones

d)

Pheromones

15.

__________ 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.

a)

Genetic

b)

Organic

c)

Plant

d)

Resistance