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| 6253757719 | Integrated pest management | A strategy for controlling pests that uses biological and physical approaches first then chemical pesticides as a last resort. | 0 | |
| 6466280260 | Broad-spectrum pesticide | Pesticide that kills a wide variety of organisms and can kill natural predators of pests. | 1 | |
| 6466283501 | Narrow-spectrum pesticide | Pesticide that targets and kills specific types of organisms. | 2 | |
| 6466290870 | Natural predator | A biological pest control that can sometimes be used instead of harmful chemicals. (as long as it doesn't become an ecological or economic problem) | 3 | |
| 6466304530 | FIFRA | The law that regulates the sale and use of pesticides in the U.S.; also sets tolerance levels for pesticide residues on crops. | 4 | |
| 6466337324 | Persistent pesticide | A chemical that doesn't break down easily in nature. It tends to accumulate in the bodies of organisms and biomagnify up the food chain. (i.e. bald eagles had the highest concentrations of DDT in their bodies before it was banned in the U.S. - their eggs became weak and their numbers plummeted) | 5 | |
| 6466358217 | Organic vegetables | Those grown without 1) synthetic pesticides 2)GMO's 3) use of human sewage sludge as fertilizer 4) synthetic fertilizers (or minimal use) | 6 | |
| 6466384482 | Crop rotation | A physical cultivation strategy for minimizing pests and restoring nitrogen to the soil. Farmers may plant corn one year then soybeans (legume that fixes extra nitrogen) the next year. | 7 | |
| 6466530542 | Organic fertilizers | Compost (food scraps and yard/crop waste that has decomposed) and manure are examples of these. This type of fertilizer is less likely to runoff with rainwater. | 8 | |
| 6466564891 | Low- or no-till agriculture; cover crops | Sustainable agricultural practices that help keep soil in place. (prevents sediment runoff into nearby waterways) | 9 | |
| 6466655100 | Drip irrigation | The most efficient way to water crops (results in the least amount of runoff or evaporation waste of water) | 10 | |
| 6466688053 | Rice paddy cultivation | This type of farming has the most CH4 (methane) emissions due to biomass being regularly submerged under water allowing for anaerobic decomposition to happen. | 11 | |
| 6466716628 | Round-up ready soybeans | A genetically modified crop that allows the farmer to spray more of a specific type of pesticide without killing the crop. | 12 | |
| 6466722619 | Bt corn | A genetically modified crop that has a bacterial gene added to it that produces an insect toxin. Helps to decrease the amount of pesticide chemicals that have to be applied to the crop. | 13 | |
| 9351503089 | Green Revolution | The development of new strains of high-yielding crops, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and better irrigation technology were major components of the: | 14 | |
| 9351541565 | overfishing | The main reason for the worldwide decline in fish species since 1990 is: | 15 | |
| 9351552431 | A new threat with an invasive species | Introducing a new biological control like a new predator to control pest insects on a farm may cause: | 16 | |
| 9351576005 | Pesticide treadmill | When farmers use increasing amounts of pesticides to control pests that are becoming genetically resistant to them this is called the: | 17 | |
| 9352374894 | Traditional subsistence agriculture | The type of agriculture used by people in developing countries as they try to produce enough food for their families. | 18 | |
| 9352387090 | High-input industrialized agriculture | The type of agriculture producing most of the food in developed countries. | 19 | |
| 9352406614 | Trawlers | The type of fishing method that is very destructive to benthic habitats in the ocean. | 20 | |
| 9352435041 | FIFRA | The U.S. law that is intended to help protect humans from the health impacts of pesticides. | 21 | |
| 9352452559 | Atrazine | One of the most widely used herbicides used in the U.S. that has been shown to be an endocrine disruptor or hormonally active agent having "gender bender" effects in some animal species. | 22 |
