Vocabulary Chapter 11
• malnourished • monocropping • nomadic grazing
• food scarcity • pesticides • sustainable agriculture
• food insecurity • insecticides • intercropping
• famine • herbicides • crop rotation
• anemia • broad-spectrum pesticides
• agroforestry • meat • selective pesticides
• contour plowing • Industrial agriculture (agribusiness)
• persistent • no-till agriculture • energy subsidy
• bioaccumulation • Integrated pest management (IPM)
• Green Revolution • nonpersistent • organic agriculture
• economies of scale • resistant • Concentrated animal
feeding operations (CAFO’s)
• waterlogging • pesticide treadmill • fishery
• salinization • conventional agriculture
• Ffshery collapse • organic fertilizers • shifting agriculture
• bycatch • inorganic fertilizers • desertification
• Individual transferable quotas (ITQ’s) • aquacultur
Chapter 14
• water pollution • algal bloom • sludge
• point sources • pathogens • manure lagoons
• nonpoint sources • indicator species • acid deposition
• wastewater • fecal coliform bacteria
• PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)
• oxygen-demanding waste • septic system
• PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers)
• biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)
• septic tank • thermal pollution • eutrophication •
• thermal shock • cultural eutrophication • leach field
• maximum contaminant levels (MCL)
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