Solved by a verified expert:AGRICULTURE WORKSHEET1. Explain the difference between traditional subsistence agriculture, traditional intensiveagriculture, and industrial agriculture (mechanized agriculture). When is each systemfavored?2. Why do people who live in overpopulated countries use plants (not meat) as their mainsource of food?3. Discuss some of the economic and ecological disadvantages of crop monocultures.4. Discuss some of the economic and ecological advantages of crop monocultures.5. What is the difference between broad-spectrum and selective pesticides? Which doyou think would be the best environmentally speaking?6. What is meant by describing a pesticide as persistent? Why are persistent pesticidesa special threat to the environment? Make sure you use term we learnt early on in thequarter!7. Explain how insecticides can increase insect populations.8. What are some of the advantages of using sex attractants, rather than poisonousinsecticides? What about the "sterile male" technique?
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