Environmental Science Question

Description

To prepare for your assignment,

Try to find information as close to where you live as possible. If you cannot find information within a 50-mile radius of where you live, then try searching the closest large city, or within your county.

Identify the predominant soil type(s) in your area. You can reference the ecoregion information from the Week 1 lab follow-up assignment.

• Identify the weather and climate conditions of your area.
• Research what types of agriculture, if any, are currently being practiced in your area.
• Now, you are ready to draft a paper about soil and sustainable agriculture where you live, and your own plan for a 500-acre sustainable food production operation. In your essay,
• Describe the general area where you live (local community, county, etc.) by addressing the following:

What are the characteristics of the soil?

What is the composition (sand, silt, clay)?

• How well does it retain water?

How fertile is the soil generally?

• What are the seasons like?
• How much precipitation (rain and snow) do you get annually, and how is it distributed throughout the year?
• Discuss agricultural production in your community:
• What crops are being grown?
• What production methods are being used?
• Is irrigation necessary?
• Are there any greenhouses or other indoor food production operations in your area?

Are there any organic or other sustainable agriculture operations within 50 or 100 miles of your location?

• Create a plan, based on the conditions in your area, for a sustainable food production operation that addresses the following questions:
• How will you divide up the 500 acres between at least four different sustainable food production methods?
• Why is each method suitable to your local area and conditions?
• Which foods will you produce and what methods will you utilize for each one? You should conduct research on sustainable food production systems, and you can also use information from the Week 2 Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory.
• You will submit two documents to Waypoint. One should be your completed Lab 2 Worksheet and the other should be your Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory Follow-Up Assignment. Together these two documents are worth 5% of your class grade.
• The Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory Follow-Up Assignment essay,

must be 2 to 4 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft WordLinks to an external site.

• must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
• title of essay in bold font
• Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.

student’s name

name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)

course name and number

• instructor’s name

due date

must utilize academic voice.

Refer to the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.

must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.

Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.

must use at least one scholarly source, one credible source, and the course text, for three sources.

The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.

To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips