Intensive Farming

Question 1

What is intensive farming used for?

Answer 1

Produce more food

As much food as possible from land, animals and plants

Question 2

Farmers use herbicides for intensive farming. How does that help?

Answer 2

It kills weeds

Means more energy from sun going to useful crops and not any unnecessary ones

Question 3

Farmers use pesticides for intensive farming. How does that help?

Answer 3

It kills insects that eat crops

More crops
Keeps the food chain the same

Question 4

Farmers “battery farm” animals. How does that help?

Answer 4

Keeps animals close together (indoors).

They’re warm and waste less energy moving around (as they can’t because is it crowded)

Stops them using energy, and keep them warm.

Question 5

What is hydroponic?

Answer 5

Plants being grown without soil

Grown in a “nutrient solution”
Water and fertilisers
Instead of soil

Question 6

For which food is hydroponic mainly used for?

Answer 6

Glasshouse tomatoes

Question 7

What are the advantages for hydroponic?

Answer 7

Minerals levels controlled more accurately

Diseases can be controlled effectively

Question 8

What are the disadvantages of hydroponic?

Answer 8

Lots of fertilisers needed

No soil to support plant or roots

Destroy environment

Question 9

How can intensive farming destroy the environment?

Answer 9

Pollution

Removing edges and making fields - destroys natural habitat and wildlife

Fertilisers pollute river & lake
(Eutrophication)

Pesticides disturb food chain

People believe that animal intensive farming (chickens) is cruel - do not have freedom