Agriculture You will need an Atlas & something to write on.

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Agriculture You will need an Atlas & something to write on.

Christmas Break  Make a list of everything you ate and drank.

 Aztecs  Pilgrims  Iowa

Corn

 #1  70% of the carbon in our bodies  Dent corn

Corn Regions  What states grow corn?

Central Mexico  Teosintel

Ames Iowa  Corn research center  What do they study?  Why?

Corn Crops  How is corn planted?  How is it harvested?  What technology is used?

J Von Liebig  German born  1830 – invented nitrogen fertilizer

Vocabulary (156)  Plantation  Slash & burn  Migrant Workers  Barter

Agricultural Problems  Use of fossil fuels  Pollution in the form of runoff  Mississippi River & Gulf of Mexico

Solutions  Plastics – 10% of oil supply  1,000 yrs. to degrade  global warming  Corn plastic is made from carbon molecules

G.M.O.  Genetically Modified Organism

Domino's Pizza  Where do the toppings come from?  How are the toppings transported to Manhattan?

California How is the California desert transformed into a food machine? What’s grown in California?

Back to CORN  What is a C.A.F.O.?  Why are cattle fed corn?  In 6 months, how much does a calf grow?

Henry Ford  Mass industrialization

Why circles?