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| 3002416111 | No till | leaves sig amount of crop residue on soil surface, protects soil from erosion, reduces amount of CO2 in air, slows rate of decopostition | 0 | |
| 3002416112 | Contour plowing | plowing perpendicular to slope, stops runoff | 1 | |
| 3072945161 | Terracing | cutting steps into fields, think asia and rice farming | 2 | |
| 3072947834 | Crop rotation | multicultural, prevents soil depletion, reduces soil erosion, prevents diseases | 3 | |
| 3072952928 | Strip Cropping | ex of crop rotation, planting crops in alternating strips | 4 | |
| 3072955831 | wind breaks | planting trees/orchard to block wind erosion from crop | 5 | |
| 3072958384 | Cover crops | crops grown near primary crop being produced | 6 | |
| 3072962538 | weathering | breaking down bedrock into sediment | 7 | |
| 3072967182 | erosion | washing/blowing away of sediment | 8 | |
| 3072971100 | Hot/humid climate | more chemical weathering | 9 | |
| 3072971101 | Cold climate | more physical weathering | 10 | |
| 3072974975 | Porosity | amount space between grains of sediment in soil | 11 | |
| 3072976777 | Permeability | rate of movement of water | 12 | |
| 3072978212 | greater porosity | =greater permeability | 13 | |
| 3072979827 | greater grain size | =greater porosity | 14 | |
| 3072981088 | grain size | how large individual pieces of sediment are in soil | 15 | |
| 3072993292 | Heterogeneous grain size | helps grow plants by holding in some water and allowing some to run out | 16 | |
| 3072995054 | Dust Bowl | storm in 1930s caused by unsustainable farming techniques | 17 | |
| 3073001988 | Nutrients | nitrogen and phosphorous | 18 | |
| 3073009820 | forage | plants grown as animal feed | 19 | |
| 3073011405 | cash crops | crops grown only to make profit | 20 | |
| 3073011439 | range land | not plowed, allows animals to roam freely and eat | 21 | |
| 3073014513 | pasture land | plowed, gives forage to animals | 22 | |
| 3073017380 | monoculture | growing only one plant/species in same field annually | 23 | |
| 3073022150 | hydroponics | growing plants in water solution instead of soil | 24 | |
| 3073024002 | aquaculture | raising animals in water ex: oysters | 25 | |
| 3073026113 | mariculture | aquaculture with ocean animals | 26 | |
| 3073027978 | IPM | uses mix of biological control, chemical pesticides and multi-crop planting, no till farming to control pests | 27 | |
| 3073036763 | Golden rice | this crop provides vitamin A to vitamin A deficient countries from two genes, one from daffodils and one from bacterium | 28 | |
| 3073044835 | terminator gene | never created, makes seeds from crop sterile, supposed to stop spreading of GMO | 29 | |
| 3073054580 | biological pest control | bringing in natural predators to destroy pests | 30 | |
| 3073060584 | marginal | semi arid land | 31 | |
| 3073060585 | water table | top of ground water, lowers with desertification | 32 | |
| 3073062350 | soil makeup | 45% minerals, 25%water, 25%oxygen, 5% organic matter | 33 | |
| 3073068764 | N-P-K | nitrogen phosphorous potassium | 34 | |
| 3073070858 | undernourishment | less than min amount food needed to be healthy | 35 | |
| 3073072752 | malnourishment | lack of nutrients | 36 | |
| 3073078607 | metal conc rises | when ph lowers/becomes acidic | 37 | |
| 3073083248 | metal conc decreases | when ph rises/becomes basic | 38 | |
| 3073086494 | humus | top layer organic soil | 39 | |
| 3073100242 | flood irrigation | flood flat land to farm | 40 | |
| 3073101488 | furrow irrigation | releasing water into ditches to farm | 41 | |
| 3073103085 | subirrigation | releasing water underground to farm | 42 | |
| 3073105413 | transgenic crops | mixing DNA | 43 |
