Examine personal environmental choices and their effects on the quality of life in the community. Describe how people use the resources in the environment to meet their need for food. Discuss how specialization of farming may lead to soils depleted of nutrients. Express the cause-effect relationship between poor farming techniques and soil erosion. Discuss environmental issues related to chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Food is needed for survival.
The quality of our food is related to the health of the soil in which it grows. Many farms today are large, specialized corporate farms which are formidable competitors for small farmers who may over-farm their land to produce enough to survive. This may lead to cultivating areas that could have helped the soil to hold water, leading to dry topsoil that erodes or blows away. When you hold up an object, they are to tell you the place from which the object originally came. Hold up a fruit, like an apple.