Food Insecurity Nitrogen and Carbon Cycles Greenhouses Garden Systems Plant Nutrients
100
Obesity
What health disorder is food insecurity directly tied to?
100
True
True or False: Animals use nitrogen to build proteins just like plants.
100
Radiation
How does the sun's energy get to earth?
100
Plowing
What is the agricultural process of "turning up the earth"?
100
Parts per million
What does ppm stand for?
200
Grains
What food category is produced in the greatest amount worldwide?
200
Glucose (sugar)
Plants and cyanobacteria use carbon dioxide from the air to produce...
200
Visible light waves
Most of the UV energy that reaches greenhouses is in what form?
200
Permaculture
What gardening philosophy encourages companion planting and sustainable design?
200
17
How many essential nutrients are required by plants?
300
Where residents' access to affordable, healthy food options is restricted or nonexistent
What is the definition of a food desert?
300
Series of processes that convert nitrogen gas to organic substances and back to nitrogen in nature
What is the nitrogen cycle?
300
Absorbed by plants and objects
What happens to UV energy once it enters the greenhouse?
300
Aquaponics
What type of gardening system uses "the waste produced by farmed fish to supply the nutrients for plants"?
300
Potassium
Which element does the symbol K stand for?
400
Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids (fats)
The three major nutrients we get from food are...
400
Denitrification
What step of the cycle returns nitrogen back into the atmosphere?
400
Reflects the energy
How does glass help to keep UV energy inside a greenhouse?
400
Deep Water Culture
What is the term for when "roots of the plants are encased in a net pot or grow cup that is suspended from a lid with roots dangling in a liquid nutrient solutions"?
400
Manganese
What element does the symbol Mn stand for?
500
6400
About how many people in La Plata County are considered food insecure?
500
(NH4+ to NO3) or ammonium into nitrates
During nitrification, bacteria convert ____ into ____
500
Trapping of UV rays in Earth's atmosphere
What is the definition of the greenhouse effect?
500
Plowing, Fertilization, Irrigation, Pest Control
List the four main processes of agriculture.
500
Phosphorus
When the leaf tips look burnt and
older leaves turn a dark green
or reddish-purple, which nutrient is deficient?






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