Rain falling on which of the following area causes minimal soil erosion?
Frozen soil
Ploughed soil
Land with partial crop cover
All of the above
What is the minimum soil depth required for agricultural production?
10 mm
100 cm
150 mm
150 cm
What is the process of establishing a forest on land that is not a forest called?
Afforestatiion
Reforestation
Carbon farming
Sustainable agriculture
What is the estimate of the ability of soils to resist erosion called?
Gradient
Erodibility
Salinity
Soil buffering capacity
Transformation of habitable land to desert is known as:
Urbanization
Desertification
Afforestation
The act of farming using principles of ecology, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment is known as:
No-till farming
How long does it take for natural processes to replace 25mm of topsoil?
10 years
25 years
100 years
500 years
What is the farming system in which the seeds are directly deposited into untilled soil called?
Overgrazing
Which of the following project was aimed to produce a world map of human-induced soil degradation?
GLASOD
ASSOD
SOVEUR
LADA
What is the process of capturing carbon from the atmosphere, using plants grown on farms called?
