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- 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.
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- 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.