Agriculture - the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products

Anthropogenic - originating in human activity

Deforestation - the action of clearing a wide area of trees

 Desertification - the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture

Green Revolution - a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties

Irrigation - is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

High Yield Crops - are ones that produces large quantities of grain, corn, etc

Land pollution - destruction of the earth's land surfaces, often directly or indirectly as a result of man's activities and their misuse of land resources

Leachate - water that has percolated through a solid and leached out some of the constituents

Multiple Cropping - the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land in same growing seasons instead of one crop

Pesticide-  a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals

Subsoil - the soil lying immediately under the surface soil

Soil - the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles

Soil Erosion - is the wearing away of topsoil

Topsoil - the top layer of soil

Urbanization - the process of making an area more urban