unit 5

Question 1

Agroforestry

Answer 1

Planting trees and crop together

Question 2

Aquaculture

Answer 2

Growing and harvesting of fish and shellfish for human use in freshwater ponds, irrigation, ditches, and lakes, or in cages or fenced-in areas of coastal lagoons and estuaries or in the open ocean

Question 3

Arable

Answer 3

Land that can be cultivated into growing crops

Question 4

Bottom trawling

Answer 4

finish by dragging a net close to the sea floor

Question 5

By-catch

Answer 5

unwanted caught organisms from fishing

Question 6

capture fisheries

Answer 6

industries that harvest aquatic resources naturally

Question 7

compost

Answer 7

decayed natural material used as fertilizer

Question 8

contour farming

Answer 8

farming along a sloped surface, reating ‘layers’

Question 9

crop rotation

Answer 9

changing the crops grown in a single are to accomdate different seasons

Question 10

fisheries

Answer 10

the enterprise of harvesting fish

Question 11

food security

Answer 11

reliable access to healthy, safe food.

Question 12

green revolution

Answer 12

a sudden increase in crop production due to the introduction of modern assiants (ie. fertlizer

Question 13

industrialized agriculture

Answer 13

uses large vehicles and laege amounts of capital in order to cultivate one type of crop (monoculture)

Question 14

intercropping

Answer 14

the act of growing crops in between others

Question 15

integrated pest management

Answer 15

the combination of direct and indirect methods to prevent pest infestations

Question 16

malnutrition

Answer 16

the lack of prope healthy nutrients

Question 17

polyculture

Answer 17

the simultanous growth of multiple types of crops

Question 18

riparian right

Answer 18

the rights allocated fgor water consumption to those living alongside a natural water source

Question 19

salinization

Answer 19

the salt content contained within something (usally soil or water

Question 20

strip cropping

Answer 20

the method of growing crops in alternating rows to prevent soil erosion

Question 21

terracing

Answer 21

conversion of sloped land into several flat planes (steps) for cultivation

Question 22

traditional subsistence agriculture

Answer 22

cultivating with the intent to fee ones family with the product

Question 23

contour strip mining

Answer 23

excavation done on hilly areas to expose minerals at a relative equal height to the hillside

Question 24

depletion time

Answer 24

the amount of time for non-renewable resource to be consumed

Question 25

mineral

Answer 25

a naturally occuring, inorganic element

Question 26

mineral resource

Answer 26

a hugh concentration (location) of minerals that is profitable to extract

Question 27

mountaintop removal

Answer 27

a method of surface mining that involves destroying ridelands and mountaintops

Question 28

high-grade ore

Answer 28

high concentrations of a mineral

Question 29

low-grade ore

Answer 29

low concentrations of a mineral

Question 30

overburden

Answer 30

the geological material bouve an exploitable resource (ie dirt above a seam of coal)

Question 31

strip-mining

Answer 31

the removal of overburden followed by the material beneath

Question 32

subsurface mining

Answer 32

the extraction of valuable mineral without removing the overburden above

Question 33

surface mining

Answer 33

the extraction of material near the surface of earth

Question 34

tailings

Answer 34

residue left after separating valuable material from its unecomonoc surroundings