HAS Animals in Sustainable Agriculture (Ch29)

Disposal of food-processing wastes can be avoided by using.

This philosophy emphasizes the system allowing a larger and more thorough view of the consequences of farming practices.

What type of operations have an added hedge against catastrophe, and can market their products at different times?

What is lifestyle?

Nomadic herding and ranching are carried out primarily in regions that cannot be cultivated because they are too _____

What is a large operation that focuses on producing only one type of animal in intensive units?

A secure and movable enclosure for poultry to access fresh air and sunlight while allowing them to forage.

What are the practices of sustainable agriculture?

Cropland used for animal feed is __________ in producing calories for humans than if the land were used for food crops.

What is composed of sugar, phosphate, and one of four nitrogen bases?

What is the mineral content of feedstuffs?

A system using a variety of advanced entomology and agronomic practices to reduce pests and lessen pesticide use.

Choose an example of a practice that would be part of sustainable farming.

What is an indispensable part of an overall sustainable system?

Agriculutural systems often located in depressed communities that exploit animals, people, and communities.

What holds great promise for sustainable practices, applications such as crops that need no insecticides or herbicides?

The sum of the adjustments occurring in an organism that promotes its welfare and favors its survival in an environment.

This branch of biology deals with the relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings.

In sustainable agricultural systems animal and plant interactions combine to cycle carbon, nitrogen, and _________ .

In which system is animal feed, and other crops produced in conjunction with forests, orchards, and woodlands?

An important consideration concerning sustainable systems is that they are __________.

Crops raised without using conventional pesticides, petroleum-based fertilizers, or sewage sludge-based fertilizers.

What are proteins capable of catalyzing reactions associated with a specific substrate?

A movement and ideology that aims to reduce the impact of human activities on the earth and its various inhabitants.

This is one of the most persistent threats to the long-term productivity of the nation's land.