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Chapter 10-12 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Modern machinery
      - Infrastructure
      - Chemicals
      - Irrigation
      - Expansive land
      - Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
    - - Transgenic – gene taken from completely different organism
      - Marker-assisted breeding – traditional breeding sped up using molecular biological techniques
      - Food Shortage Crisis Causes
        
        Rising cost of fuel
        
        Corn used for bio fuel production
        
        Higher quality diets (more meat) in emerging economies
        
        Weather related shortfalls in crops
        
        Declining carryover stock
        
        Food security: access for every person to enough nutritious food for active and healthy life
        
        Hunger: lack of basic food required to provide energy and to meet nutritional needs.
        
        • Undernourishment: lack of adequate food for energy
        
        • Malnutrition: lack of essential nutrients • Over-nourishment: eating too much
        
        important food on the market?
        
        Grain,
        
        corn,
        
        wheat,
        
        rice,
        
        barley,
        
        rye,
        
        sorghum
- - - - The Hydrologic Cycle is the circulation and movement through different areas and phases across our planet
      - Water is Either:
        
        Water Management
        
        Worldwide largest uses of water are as follows
        
        Water Misuse Consequences
        
        4 more items...
        
        Irrigation (70%)
        
        Industry (20%)
        
        Direct Human Use (10%)
        
        Soaked into ground by infiltration
        
        Surface runoff into surface waterbodies
    - - Has polar charge
      - hydrogen bonding
- - - - Medium for plant growth
        
        Engineering medium
        
        Organism habitat
        
        Recycles nutrients and water
        
        Water purification
        
        Modifier of Atmosphere
        
        Soil Forming Factors
        
        (1) Climate
        
        (2) Biota
        
        (3) Parent material
        
        (4) Topography
        
        (5) Time
        
        Soil Colors
        
        Soil Profile: two dimensional vertical slices of soil made up of horizons or fundamental genetic layers
        
        Dark soils = organic matter
        
        Grey = water table depth
        
        Oxidation state of Mn or Fe