Unit 20 Flashcards
One word to show the adaptation of technology in farming and other industry is known as this.
Industrialization
Growing crops and raising animals for sale in local and world markets.
Cash crop farming
Extreme form of hunger, total lack of energy and essential vitamins and minerals. The body consumes itself.
Starvation
Growing crops and raising livestock to meet immediate needs for families.
Subsistence farming
Name the outcome of the Green Revolution.
Higher yield varieties (hyv)
Term for elevation of land “elevation of land”
Topography
Who helped out with the famine in Ethiopia in 1984? How?
Bob Geldof, live aid concerts
Another name for transgenic organisms.
Gmo
In the 1950’s Canadians spent a quarter of their income on food today we spend ____%
11%
Another term for farms being run like business by inventors looking for returns on their investments
Agribusiness
Plotting at 90 degree angles to the slope of the land to avoid water erosion is called what?
Contour plowing
Name the practice of leaving farmland without a crop for a growing season to help build the nutrients in that soil
Summer fallowing
A chemical compound designed to feed plants and increase plant growth
Fertilizers
How much more land does a “dry lander” need as compared to an irrigating farmer, to earn a similar income level
4 times
How many products are available in the average supermarket
47,000
