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- 4. Adding protective covering, such as straw or bark, over crops (page 319).
- 5. The farming of seafood under controlled conditions.
- 6. Gases in the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect, or global warming, by trapping heat around the earth (page 317).
- 10. The amount of food travel that some food products must make (page 317).
- 13. Practices that meet future needs- or using resources in ways today that do not hurt the future ability to use those same resources (page 317).
- 14. The practice of limiting the use of a resource, such as water, forests, or wild-caught seafood (page 317).
- 15. Decayed mixture of plants (page 319)..
- 16. The Food and Agriculture Organization
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- 1. The EPA is a federal agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environment (page 316).
- 2. A more traditional method of growing coffee, which offers numerous benefits to a local ecosystem. Coffee trees grow under taller rain forest trees, whose larger leaves shade the crop.
- 3. Chemicals sprayed to kill pests and manage diseases (page 319).
- 7. Products that have been produced without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers; this can refer to almost any agricultural product, including fruits, vegetables, dairy products, meat, and grains (page318).
- 8. Restaurants that use food grown in the surrounding region (page 317).
- 9. Preparing soil for crops (page 319).
- 11. When a larger forest is cleared or thinned to make room for more crops. These farms require strict management and frequent intervention through fertilizers and pesticides to maintain healthy crops.
- 12. The United States Department of Agriculture