Environmental Geography (Ag. & Water)

5. farming as an agricultural practice that produces just enough food for a farmer's family
10. the process by which fertile land becomes desert
11. process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops.
13. agricultural revolution benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, there were improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm products
15. agricultural revolution that achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
16. not having access to enough clean water supplies
17. Too much water is removed by human activity or environmental impacts, resulting in bodies of water drying up
18. The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

1. Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment
2. revolution with a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties
3. the process of breeding two plants that have desirable characteristics to produce a single seed with both characteristics
4. the removal of salt from ocean water
6. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
7. The legal rights to use the water in a river, stream, or other body
8. a long period without rain
9. farming as a practice for growing large quantities of crops or livestock in order to sell them for a profit
12. modifying Earth's surface for cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock
14. the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans
19. an organism produced by copying genes from a species with a desirable trait and inserting them into another species