Unit+6+Agriculture+and+Soil


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Laws:
Federal Environmental Pesticides Control Act Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Food Quality Protection Act Soil Conservation Act Taylor Grazing Act



Notes:
|| =Unit 6: Agriculture & Soil=

Readings:
Chapter 9 (pg. 232-261) Chapter 10 (pg. 262-292)

Goals: Soil

 * Explain the importance of soils to agriculture, and describe the impacts of agriculture on soil
 * Delineate the fundamentals of soil science, including soil formation and soil properties (permeability, porosity, pH, charge)
 * Describe the major soil horizons and understand how they relate to one another
 * State the causes and predict the consequences of soil erosion and soil degradation
 * Recite the history and explain the principals of soil conservation
 * Explain the ways farmers prevent soil erosion & soil degradation (contour farming, terracing, inter-cropping, crop rotation, shelterbeds, and no-till farming)

Goals: Agriculture

 * Outline major historical developments in agriculture
 * Explain the challenge of feeding a growing human population
 * undernourished, over-nutrition, malnutrition
 * medical conditions resulting from malnutrition
 * Identify the goals, methods, and environmental impacts of the "green revolution"
 * Categorize the strategies of pest management
 * Assess the need for fertilizers and how these impact watersheds
 * Discuss the importance of pollination
 * Assess feedlot agriculture for livestock and poultry
 * Weigh approaches in aquaculture
 * Evaluate sustainable agriculture

Goals: A New World of Crops & Livestock

 * Describe the science behind genetically modified food
 * Evaluate the debate over genetically modified food
 * Ascertain approaches for preserving crop diversity
 * Explain the "green revolution"

Skills:

 * Convert between various food stuffs and the energy/water/land required to produce it
 * Determine the quality of soil using the settling technique ||
 * ==Extras==

Erosion
Erosion Game Nat Geo Haiti Erosion Article Nat Geo Water Erosion Erosion & Deposition of Meanders Bill Nye on Erosion Types of Erosion Control

Soil
Down on Dirt Secret of Soil Formation of Soil Interactive Animated Soil Pyramid Dust Bowl Footage Black Blizzard Clip Dust Bowl Desertification Claymation Desertification

Agriculture
Botany of Desire: The Potato Chipotle Ad: Back to the Beginning Types of Erosion Control Grocery Store Wars History of Certain Plants Biodiversity International FAO Global Crop Diversity Heifer International Heifer International Alton Brown Ad How much water does it take to grow... Dow and Monsanto Team Up

IPM
Integrated Pest Managment Example

Food
Betting on Food Prices Eating a Low Carbon Diet The Meatrix I The Meatrix II The Circle of Responsibility Black Gold Trailer Got Mercury? Choose My Plate SeaFood Watch Audubon's Society's Fish Advisory Build Your Own Beef 100 Mile Diet American Livestock Breeds Conservancy Free Rice: Earn Rice for UNICEF Nat Geo Food Diversity Heirloom Wheat Arives at Seed Vault

Aquaculture
Aquaculture: Build Your Own with Ikea TED Ex Aquaponics

GMOs
Global Distribution of GMOs GMO Compass Doomsday Seed Vault || ==Assignments== To see a picture of a coal mine go here! media type="youtube" key="Xmpc7PqMNaI?version=3" height="216" width="384" IPM Case Studies ||