Chapter 11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Agroecosystem | agricultural ecosystem |
| Aquaculture | rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food |
| Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. |
| Genetically Modified Crops | Transferring specific genetic characteristics between individuals, populations, or species of crops |
| Green Revolution | Post-WWII programs that led to the development of new crop strains with higher yields, better disease resistance, or better ability to grow under poor conditions |
| Limiting Factor | A factor whose availability is the least in comparison to the needs of a species |
| Macronutrient | A chemical element required by all living things in relatively large amounts, including sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, potassium, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen |
| Mariculture | Farming of ocean fish |
| Micronutrient | Chemical element required in small amounts, usually including rare metals. |
| Monoculture | Large areas planted with a single species or even a single strain of subspecies (i.e. a single hybrid of corn) |
| Organic Farming | A type of farming that is more like natural ecosystems than monocultures, minimizes negative environmental impacts, and produces food without artificial compounds. |
| Pasture | Land that is plowed, planted and harvested to provide forage for animals. |
| Rangeland | Land that provides food for grazing and browsing animals without plowing and planting. |
| Synergistic Effect | A change in availability of one resource affects the response of an organism to some other resource. |
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