AP Environmental Science / Unit 5: Land and Water Use
5.3 The Green Revolution
Notes
The Green Revolution raised crop yields with high-yield crops, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and mechanization.
- Downsides: fossil fuel use, soil degradation, water pollution, loss of crop diversity (monocultures).
Practice
The Green Revolution increased:
More food per acre.
A drawback of the Green Revolution:
Inputs have environmental costs.
Monocultures are vulnerable because:
Low genetic diversity.
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