APES- Chapter 12 Review Crossword

Define: People have access to enough nutritious food to live active and healthy lives.
The #1 Cause of food insecurity is?
Define: A problem in developed countries; obesity; Excess body fat from too many calories and not enough exercise.
Define: Form of agriculture where heavy equipment is used alongside large use of fossil fuels, commercial fertilizers, and pesticides; main goal of this type of agriculture is to increase crop yield.
Process of genetically altering an organism’s DNA (GMOs) to have favorable traits is known as?
Define: The process of growing several crops on the same plot of land simultaneously; opposite of monoculture.
__________ -and-burn agriculture involves the process of cutting and clearing land and then burning the area to restore nutrients into soil and reduce soil erosion.
Define: The process of raising marine and freshwater fish in ponds and underwater cages; blue revolution.
The 3 systems of food supply include: rangelands/feedlots, oceanic fisheries/aquaculture, and _________.
Political upheaval, _______, corruption, and bad weather can all cause food insecurity.
The main goal of the _________ _____________ was to increase crop yields.
Soil conservation methods including terracing, contour planting, strip cropping, alley cropping, and windbreaks are all ways to reduce soil _______.
_________ are chemicals used to kill or control populations of pests.
First generation pesticides were borrowed and produced from plants, while second generation pesticides are produced in ________.
Define: An urban area where people have little to no easy access to nutritious food.
Deficiencies of protein and key nutrients is known as chronic _____________.
The process of growing plants inside a greenhouse with water troughs and recycling the water and using it to water plants by “artificial rainfall” is known as?
The 3 main grain crops are: wheat, rice, and _______.
In plantation agriculture, ____________ ________ such as bananas, tobacco, etc. are grown for profit. Plantation agriculture is primarily in less-developed countries.
Traditional ________________ agriculture relies on low-input polyculture and relies on human labor and draft animals to produce enough food for a family.