Environment: The Science Behind The Stories Chapters 9 Notes Questions and Answers 2023

No till - -Agriculture that does not involve tilling (plowing, disking, harrowing, or chiseling) the soil. The most intensive form of conservation tillage -Cover crops - -Crops planted to hold the soil in place between times that main food crops are growing -Agriculture - -The practice of raising crops and livestock for human use and consumption -Cropland - -Land used to raise plants for human use -Rangeland (pasture) - -Land used for grazing livestock -Sustainable agriculture - -Agriculture that we can practice in the same way in the same place fair into the futureLand used for grazing livestock -Traditional Agriculture - -The work of cultivating, harvesting, storing, and distributing crops was performed by human and animal muscle power, along with hand tools and simple machines -Subsistence agriculture - -•Farming families produce only enough food for themselves •As farmers began integrating into market economies and producing excess food to sell, they started using teams of animals for labor and significant quantities of irrigation water and fertilizer -Industrial agriculture - -A form of agriculture that uses large scale mechanization and fossil fuel combustion, enabling farmers to replace horses and oxen with faster and more powerful mean of cultivating, harvesting, transporting, and processing crops -Monocultures - -The uniform planting of a single crop over a large area