Plant Nutrients and the Environment
EXCERPT: Nutrient pollution comes from many sources: from natural ecosystem functions, from a wide spectrum of human activity and from agriculture...
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Plant Nutrients and the Environment
EXCERPT: An apple is used to model Earth. Students learn that just 1/32 of its surface or 1/8 of the land surface, is devoted to farmland. Students use estimates of population growth and land use to calculate how much additional farmland will be needed in the future....
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- QUEBEC: High School
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Agri-Environment - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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