5.9 Consequences Of Agricultural Practices

Question 1

Biofuel

Answer 1

A fuel that comes from organic wastes or plant materials

Question 2

How do changes in agricultural practices affect society?

Answer 2

Diets have changed, especially in developed countries.

Women’s role has changed as farming becomes more mechanized. The use of agricultural products to creat biofuels has expanded output but affected the poor and undernourished

Question 3

Water mining

Answer 3

The use of deep well drilling technology and powerful industrial pumping systems to remove water in the ground

Question 4

Aquifer

Answer 4

Underground water deposited hundreds of thousands of years ago

Question 5

Water control land reclamation

Answer 5

Draining water to create more agricultural lands

Question 6

Desertification

Answer 6

The process by once fertile land turns into desert and dry lands from human activities and climate variations

Question 7

Dead zones

Answer 7

Sections of a body of water where there is very little aquatic life

Question 8

How do agricultural practices and land use impact the environment

Answer 8

Agrichemicals has affected wildlife, bird species and even human health problems

Agrichemicals Enter the larger environment through runoff which can cause nutrient pollution

Question 9

How do agricultural practices alter the landscape

Answer 9

Damns and irrigation efforts can drain the water for diverse biomes and removes there home.

Aquatic animals are forced to change their migration pattern

Shifting cultivation and pastoralist alter the landscape sometimes dramatically , + and -

Question 10

What causes dead zones?

Answer 10

Nutrient runoff causes increase plants that take up all of the oxygen and aquatic animals die