Unit 2: Vocabulary

5. Also known as industrial agriculture, refers to farming systems which include the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and other continual inputs, genetically modified organisms.
6. Involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
9. The clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land.
10. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
12. Thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
13. A fuel derived directly from living matter.

1. Power obtained by harnessing the energy produced by waves at sea.
2. Form of energy conversion in which turbines convert the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical or electrical energy that can be used for power.
3. The production of food, fiber, or other plant or animal products using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare.
4. A word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas.
7. The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
8. The action of conserving something, in particular.
10. The rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food.
11. Graze (grassland) so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes liable to erosion.