You May Get Result Of Intensive Farming and the Environment Quiz.
What is a farm producing wheat and barley called?
What is a farm producing animals called?
What is intensive agriculture?
Uses small areas of land with lots of expensive inputs
Uses large areas of land with fewer inputs needed
Which of the following is a human factor affecting farming?
Why is it important for farmers to rotate their crops?
To make sure people have a variety of food to eat
To make sure that the soil fertility is maintained
To adapt to the changes in temperature over the course of the year
Which of the following environmental conditions do arable farms in the UK need?
Flat or gently sloping land
What does commercial agriculture involve?
Producing enough food to survive on
Producing surplus food to sell
What are subsistence farmers?
Farming to send food to market
Farming to feed yourself and your family
What is one benefit of organic farming?
The produce contains fewer chemicals
What is the Environmental Stewardship Scheme designed to do?
Pay farmers to protect habitats, eg maintain hedgerows
Pay farmers to ship crops abroad
