Flashcards
Soil Conservation (Agriculture)
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1What is Contour ploughing?Prevents Water erosion.This is ploughing around hillsides rather than up and down the slope.
- 2What is Terracing?It prevents water erosion.
It slows water as it comes down the area. - 3What is Crop Rotation?Growing different types of crops in the same area. So that crops don't exhaust nutrients in soil as different crops require different nutrients.
- 4What is strip cultivation?This is when 2 or more crops are planted in the same field.
- 5What is afforestation?The planting of trees to help slow run off and increase infiltration