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PLNT 1213 Exam 1Agronomy - correct answer ✔✔The science and technology of producing and using plants for food, feed,
fiber, fuel, and land reclamation
Primary crops domesticated in fertile crescent - correct answer ✔✔Wild barley, wild einkorn, wild
emmer
Industrial Model (conventional) - correct answer ✔✔Where farm is a factory
Can use crop rotations, genetic resistance in crops, and several other practices
Obstacles- pests, water equipment, wasted resources
Solutions- hybrids, irrigation, precision planters
Sustainable model - correct answer ✔✔Working with nature
Organic, alternative Ag,
Depends on crop doversity to help prevent diseas, weed, and insect pressure
Includes crop rotations, N fixations
No till, eco friendly, profiable
Malthusian Theory - correct answer ✔✔focuses on how the exponential growth of a population can
outpace growth of the food supply and lead to social degradation and disorder
If the two lines pass we will experience starvation
Food production stays ahead of population due to... - correct answer ✔✔synthetic fertilizers
improved genetics
improved mechanics
improved management practices
, food security - correct answer ✔✔Physical, social, and economic access at all times to safe and nutritious
food sufficient to meet dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
food availability - correct answer ✔✔sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis
Food access - correct answer ✔✔having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious
diet
utilization - correct answer ✔✔Individuals have necessary means to reach nutritional well being by
having access to clean surroundings and water
Stability - correct answer ✔✔Food shortages should not occur due to either seasonal weather patterns
or other forms of crises (economic or natural in nature)
Factors that lead to food INsecurity - correct answer ✔✔poverty
diseases
natural disasters
population growth
political corruption
infrastructure and food waste
Green Revolution - correct answer ✔✔Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new
high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
Normal Borlaug
What plants should we domesticate - correct answer ✔✔Larger seeds and larger amount of seeds
Seeds that do not shatter
Seeds without hulls
Plants that will not kill you
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