Agriculture Chapter 20/21 Flashcards
Who helped out with Famine in Ethiopia in 1984? How?
Bob Geldof! Live Aid Concerts!
1984 Ethiopian problem
Famine
Name the extreme form of hunger in which the body consumes its own tissue
Starvation!
What do you call damage by an imbalance in diet?
Malnutrition
The increased use of Technology in farming, mining or factory work.
Industrialization.
Name the device from 1900, which separated Grain from
Chaff
Threshing Machine
What are patterns in Weather called?
Climate
Name the outcome of the Green Revolution.
HYV!
Term for the “Elevation of land.”
Topography
Farming to feed your family
Subsistence farming
Farming to sell your crops or animals to the open market is called ….
Cash Cropping
Farming with less land, labour and capital on a smaller plot of land is known as …..
Intensive Farming
Farming on large vast amounts of land with little capital costs or labour or specialized equipment is called ……
Extensive Agriculture
Another name for Transgenic organisms
GMO
The GMO called “Golden Rice” was altered to be higher in what two things, both of which aid the body’s development.
Vitamin A and Iron!
In the 1950’s Canadians spent 25% today we spend only _____% of our income on food.
11% (p. 285)
The Ogallalla Aquifer is currently being used up ______ times more quickly than it can replenish itself naturally.
25 times
Keeping the best of our animals and crops for reproduction is known as what?
Selective Breeding
Another term for Transgenic Organisms
GMO
What is the term for farms being run like businesses by investors looking for returns on their investments?
Agribusiness
The 1880’s saw about 80% of Canadians farming, What per cent are farmers today?
3%
Another name for conservation tillage, tilling the soil as little as possible, leaving stubble on the field to over-winter.
Zero Tillage or No-Till Cropping
Plowing at 90 degree angles to the slope of the land to avoid water erosion is called what?
Contour Plowing
A harmful collection of chemical compounds from smokestacks which do not break down easily in the soil, or in a human body are called what?
Heavy Metals! (like mercury)