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What is Hunting and Gathering
The time period before humans settled down to do agriculture
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What is a GMO
An organism that has been genetically modified to improve our food production
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What is sustainability
Conserving resources for future generations
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What is a concentrated animal food operation
What does CAFO stand for
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What is Ancient Agriculture?
The time period when humans began to grow simple crops like wheats and grains
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What is Holism
The approach that focuses on growing in an organic style and analyzes a system as a whole.
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What is biomass
Plant or animal material used for generating energy.
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What is Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
What does AFNR stand for
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What is the Middle Ages of Agriculture
The time period when different crops started to pop up around the world outside of their native range
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What is Reductionism
The approach that focuses on growing in a chemically-based style and analyzes specific aspects of a system?
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What is biofuel
Is a processed form of energy, readily available for consumption.
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What is a system that integrates careers and sciences constituting agriculture, food, and natural resources. In this kind of system we could see farmers, scientists, engineers, and natural resource specialists working together.
Explain an AFNR system.
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What is the Renaissance of Agriculture?
The time period when multiple events of famine occurred that pushed our agricultural progression forward
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A free range chicken interacting with various part of a farm such as livestock, grass, crops, and other chickens.
Give an example of a Holistic system
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What is any vegetable, fruit, algae, grass, leaves, flowers, stems, or wood.
Give an example of biomass
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When animals are living closely in a small living space with regulated conditions. An example would be hundreds of chickens in a hen-house closely bunched together, all eating from the same food source.
Explain what a CAFO is
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Time period of agriculture involving more modern and technical invention. Things that happened: the invention of GMO's, pesticides, fertilizers, improved irrigation, CAFO's etc.
What is the Green Revolution? Give specific examples of things that happened during this period.
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A chicken in a small cage that does NOT interact with other parts of a farm.
Give an example of a Reductionistic system
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What is biodiesel, ethanol, or charcoal. (Remember biofuel is the processed form of biomass)
Give an example of biofuel
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