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Photosynthesis
A process where plants make food from the sun.
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Beef
The largest source of protein in the US
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feeds a massive amount of people, is extremely efficient
Two benefits of large-scale agriculture
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insecticide
A term for a substance that kills insects
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Federal Department of Agriculture
The FDA stands for what full name
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Carbon
The element that plants and animals are based on
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Holstein
The name of the most popular breed of dairy cow in the US
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Erosion, pollution, desertification
Two dangers of large-scale/conventional agriculture.
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10.7%
The percentage of the Earth's land that is arable
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Chickens
These animals are the closes living relatives to Tyrannosaurus rex
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Sequestration
The process where plants put carbon into the earth through their root matter.
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Confined Animal Feeding Operation
The full name for a CAFO or feedlot
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Regenerative Agriculture (often small-scale Agriculture)
More new soil, biodiversity, closer to nature, lack of fertilizers needed, are benefits of what kind of agriculture?
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When you grow one crop on it year after year, when you till it over and over
The nutrients are depleted when you do what to the soil
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Over 400
There are this many breeds of chickens in the world
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A cow comes along and grazes the grass
A proportional amount of root matter sheds off from the grass plant when.....
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Grass Finished Beef
The term for when a cow was allowed to eat grass for the last part of its life while gaining weight before slaughter.
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Corn and Soybeans
The two largest crops produced in the US?
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Fertilizers and pesticides
These things can cause runoff that pollutes water sources and causes harm to humans and the ecosystem of the rivers/oceans.
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Hunter/Gatherer Society?
The kind of society humans had before the invention of agriculture
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Humus
Another word for organic matter
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Mad Cow Disease
This disease comes from cows eating feed contaminated by the flesh of other cows.
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Corn
What ingredient do paint, drywall, soda, bread and most adhesives have in common?
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Arable Land
A word meaning you can grow crops on the land
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Community Supported Agriculture
CSA is short for...
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