Agriscience and the environment

Question 1

natural resources

Answer 1

Those elements of nature that have value, such as timber, soil, fresh water, or a mineral deposit.

Question 2

environment

Answer 2

All the conditions, circumstances, and influencers surrounding and impacting an organism

Question 3

pollutants

Answer 3

substances introduced to the environment that have harmful effects or can make a resource less useful.

Question 4

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Answer 4

This agency encourages policy that benefit the environment and help regulate businesses so that the pollutants that they make will not overwhelm the environment

Question 5

pesticides

Answer 5

Chemicals designed to kill insects, and fertilizers.

Question 6

Erosion

Answer 6

Wearing away of soil, usually due to either water or wind.

Question 7

topsoil

Answer 7

The soil on the surface and is the richest and most fertile.

Question 8

herbicides

Answer 8

Chemicals designed to kill certain plants.

Question 9

water table

Answer 9

The top zone of the soil and rock where water fills the voids. In other words it is the water under the surface that will eventually make its way to open water sources.

Question 10

ecosystem

Answer 10

A community of independent organisms in an environment.

Question 11

ozone layer

Answer 11

This layer of air forms a barrier between the earth’s atmosphere ( what we breathe) and the sun.

Question 12

Parasitism

Answer 12

This term describes relationships in which one organism lives off another, often to the other’s detriment.

Question 13

Mutualism

Answer 13

If two animals are in a relationship that benefits them
both

Question 14

Predation

Answer 14

When one animal eats another.

Question 15

Commensalism

Answer 15

In this relationship, two animals interact with each other but it’s neither positive nor negative.

Question 16

Competition

Answer 16

If two different are going after the same food source.