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

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

3.  Aztecs  Pilgrims  Iowa

4. Corn

5.  #1  70% of the carbon in our bodies  Dent corn

7. Corn Regions  What states grow corn?

8. Central Mexico  Teosintel

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. G.M.O.  Genetically Modified Organism

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

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

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

19. Henry Ford  Mass industrialization

20. Why circles?