
Overview
Before food gets into your kitchen, before it even gets to the store, it’s on a farm. Almost everything we eat is grown on a farm, an area of land used to raise animals and plants. Farming nowadays can get pretty complicated. Farmers are scientists – agricultural scientists. Farmers work hard to keep their farms healthy. Soil is stirred up to get oxygen to the microorganisms that live in between the grains and to plant roots – that’s called tilling the soil to aerate it. Plants need to be protected from pests with either chemical pesticides or biological pesticides. Animals like bats and friendly insects eat other pest insects (chomp,chomp). Animals are milked, corralled, fed, sheared, slaughtered or cleaned-up after.
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5 - 1Forensics September 19, 1997
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5 - 2Space Exploration September 26, 1997
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5 - 3Genes October 17, 1997
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5 - 4Architecture October 24, 1997
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5 - 5Farming October 31, 1997
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5 - 6Life Cycles November 14, 1997
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5 - 7Do-It-Yourself Science November 21, 1997
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5 - 8Atoms & Molecules November 28, 1997
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5 - 9Ocean Exploration December 05, 1997
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5 - 10Lakes & Ponds February 21, 1998
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5 - 11Smell February 28, 1998
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5 - 12Caves April 25, 1998
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5 - 13Fluids May 02, 1998
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5 - 14Erosion May 09, 1998
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5 - 15Comets & Meteors May 16, 1998
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5 - 16Storms May 23, 1998
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5 - 17Measurement May 30, 1998
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5 - 18Patterns June 06, 1998
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5 - 19Science of Music June 13, 1998
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5 - 20Motion June 20, 1998