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UNIT 3: Land and Water Use

This unit includes Chapter 15, 16, 9, 10, 12, and 13 from the textbook.  

Scroll down for PPTs, review videos, animations, and diagrams.

Note:  Special thanks and acknowledgement to the staff at Pearson for providing the information and diagrams for the PPTs.  Also, thanks to Ted Ed for the videos.

Ch.10: Agriculture, Biotechnology, and the Future of Food

In Class PowerPoints:

Please download the PPTs and study them, as a means of taking notes.  We will be moving through them in numeric order and each PPT is roughly timed for one day of class.  Click on the buttons to the right to access the PPTs.

United States Department of Agriculture
Visit the USDA website below to see a list of resources, topics, and data on current agriculture techniques and policies:

A Plan To Feed The World:

Food By Numbers - Feeding Our Hungry Planet:

What's Wrong With Our Food System:

Feeding the World - APES:

Norman Borlaug & The Green Revolution:

A Global Food Crisis May Be Less Than A Decade Away:

Desertification - A Visual Disaster:

The Case for Engineering Our Food:

The Hidden Beauty of Pollination:

How Bees Help Plants Have Sex:

The Human And The HoneyBee:

The Case of The Vanishing Honeybees:

Vanishing of the Bees (2009) Documentary - Trailer:

Are GMOs Good or Bad?

Food Inc. Chicken Farm:

Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming to Your Supermarket:

The Diet That Helps Fight Climate Change:

How to Reverse Desertification and Reverse Climate Change:

Interview with Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms:

The Urban Agriculture Revolution - David Gingera:

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