AP Environmental Science - Agriculture

016 - Agriculture In this video Paul Andersen describes the pros and cons of industrial agriculture including: monocropping, irrigation, and the use of pesticides, fertilizers, and GMOs. Do you speak another language? Help me translate my videos: http://www.bozemanscience.com/translations/ Music Attribution Intro Title: I4dsong_loop_main.wav Artist: CosmicD Link to sound: http://www.freesound.org/people/CosmicD/sounds/72556/ Creative Commons Atribution License Outro Title: String Theory Artist: Herman Jolly http://sunsetvalley.bandcamp.com/track/string-theory All of the images are licensed under creative commons and public domain licensing: AnnaJB. This Is an Image of Food from Rwanda, November 27, 2014. Own work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intercropping_maize_and_beans.jpg. Beebe, Sam. English: Crop Circles along the Columbia, Washington, USA, June 23, 2008. Flickr: Crop circles along the Columbia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crop_circles_along_the_Columbia,_Washington,_USA.jpg. Betts, Lynn. English: View of Nitrogen Fertilizer Being Applied to Growing Corn, 1999. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Photo no. NRCSIA99241. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fertilizer_applied_to_corn_field.jpg. ———. English: View of Runoff, 1999. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runoff_of_soil_%26_fertilizer.jpg. Clubs, Thirteen Of. Français : Station de Stockage D’ammoniac Anhydre Pour Engrais Aux États-Unis, May 7, 2007. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thirteenofclubs/4617259619/. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anhydrous_ammonia_fertilizer.jpg. “Fertilizer.” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, October 5, 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fertilizer&oldid=684235844. File:ClaySumerianSickle.jpg, n.d. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClaySumerianSickle.jpg. Galloway, Ewing. English: Plowing an Alfalfa Field by Tractor, US, before 1921. 300 ppi scan of Collier’s New Encyclopedia, Volume 1 (1921), opposite page 58, panel H. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agriculture_(Plowing)_CNE-v1-p58-H.jpg. “Golden Rice.” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, October 1, 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_rice&oldid=683688410. “Irrigation.” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, September 1, 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irrigation&oldid=678999049. Kollmann, Dan. English: Combine in Wheat Field, August 30, 2012. Own work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Combine_in_wheat_field.jpg. lamiot, F. English: Eutrophication, July 2005. Own work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EutrophicationEutrophisationEutrophierung.jpg. Martin-rnr. Deutsch: Bioakkumulation, [object HTMLTableCellElement]. Own work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bioakkumulation_von_schadstoffen.png. O’Rear, USDA Photo by: Charles. English: Spraying Pesticide in California, [object HTMLTableCellElement]. http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/95cs2841.htm - Image Number:95c2841 CD0623-027. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cropduster_spraying_pesticides.jpg. Pollinator. English: Integrated Pest Management –, February 15, 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPMtrap4854.JPG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPMtrap4854.JPG. Self. Diagram Showing Development of Pesticide Resistance in Insects, February 25, 2008. Own work. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pesticide_resistance.svg. Sennedjem, Deutsch: Maler der Grabkammer des SennudemEnglish: Painter of the burial chamber of. Deutsch: Grabkammer Des Sennudem, Szene: Pflügender Bauer. Deutsch: Wandbild English: Mural. Deutsch: Grab des Sennudem. Accessed October 12, 2015. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_des_Sennudem_001.jpg. Service, Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation. English: Terraces, photo 1999. http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TerracesBuffers.JPG. Service, Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation. Ephemeral Gully Erosion, October 4, 2011. USDA NRCS Photo Gallery: NRCSIA99145.tif. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRCSIA99145_-_Iowa_(2991)(NRCS_Photo_Gallery).tif. Service, Photo by Tim McCabe, USDA Natural Resources Conservation. Crop Consultant Scouts, October 4, 2011. USDA NRCS Photo Gallery: NRCSIA99285.tif. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRCSIA99285_-_Iowa_(3265)(NRCS_Photo_Gallery).tif. Steinert, Eric. Larva of Chrysoperla Carnea with Prey, June 19, 2004. from de.wiki, uploaded by kulac. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysoperla_carnea_larva02.jpg.