Sustainable vs Industrial Agriculture

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Industrial agriculture maximizes production and profits by using excessive amounts of chemicals pesticides, herbicides and hormones. True or False?

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True

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__________ farmers protect the environment by making it a priority to operate in a way that preserves resources for the future as well.

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Sustainable

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Factory farms concentrate enormous numbers of animals in small areas, storing their waste in huge lagoons. True or False?

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True

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Sustainable agriculture contaminates ground and surface water with toxic pesticide and fertilizer runoff. True or False?

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False

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___________farming promotes land conservation through crop rotation, and planting of cover crops.

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Sustainable

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Sustainable farms help preserve biodiversity.

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True

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Monoculture crop system means...

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One crop is grown

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Some traditional farmers focus on cultivating a single crop, but many grow several crops on the same plot simultaneously, which is a practice known as

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polyculture

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This type of organic fertilizer consists of freshly cut or growing green vegetation that is plowed into topsoil to increase organic matter and humus.

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green manure

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This type of organic fertilizer is produced when microorganisms and/or worms in soil break down organic matter such as leaves, food, paper, and wood.

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compost