APES Chapter 11 Terms

4. An iron deficiency
5. Another word for industrial agriculture
6. Lacking the balance of nutrients and vitamins
12. changes in farming technique, technology, and ideas in order to increase yield
14. Lack of resources
15. target species of insects and other invertebrates that consume crops
18. Food from animal tissue
20. The condition where people do not have adequate access to food.
21. Consumption of too many calories, unbalanced diet
22. substances, either natural or synthetic, that kill or control organisms that people consider pests

1. When food insecurity is so extreme, people die in a short period of time
2. Using machinery to farm
3. Food from grain plants
7. composed of organic matter from plants and animals
8. Fertilizer produced commercially, normally with the use of fossil fuels. Also known as inorganic fertilizer
9. The fossil fuel energy and human energy input per calorie of food produced, beyond that which is provided by the sun
10. Not consuming enough calories
11. a form of soil degradation that occurs when soil remains under water for prolonged periods, impairs root growth because roots cannot get oxygen
13. The condition where people have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious foods
16. A form of soil degradation that occurs when the small amount of salts in irrigation water becomes highly concentrated on the soil surface through evaporation
17. Both the mechanization of agriculture and the use of synthetic fertilizers
19. the average costs of production fall as output increases