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chapter one
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| agricultre | the art, science, and buisness of producing every kind of plant and animal useful to humans |
| aquaculture | the art,science, and buisness of cultivating plants and animals in water |
| aquifer | underground supply of water |
| brackish water | a mixture of fresh and seawater;or water with a total salt consintrations between 0.05 percent and 3.0 percent, or a salinity of 1 to 10 parts per thousand |
| broodstock | adult fish retained for spawning |
| coldwater | cool water that is 50-60 degrees |
| culture | the buisness of producing, propagating, transporting, possesing, and selling |
| eggs | the mature female ger, cell, ovum |
| fingerlings | the stage in a fish's life between 1 in.(2.5 cm) ad the length at 1 year of age |
| feshwater | water containing less than 0.05 percent total disolved salts by weight |
| grow-out | facilities that produce crops from the seed |
| harvesting | involves the gathering or capturing of the fish for marketing and processing. aquaculture harvesting is typicaly topping or partial and total harvest |
| hatchery | produce the seed or young fish |
| husbandry | the occupation or buisness of farming |
| incubate | to maintain at a favorable temperature and in other conditions promoting development of eggs until they hatch |
| larvae | an immature form that must undergo change of appearance or pass through a metamorphic stage to reach the adult size |
| mariculture | rissing of organisms in the ocean |
| monoculture | raising a single species in a pond or enclosure |
| polyculture | raising two or more species in the same pond or enclosure |
| processing | all of the procedures to prepare a product of aquaculture for sonsumption |
| salinity | concentration of sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, bicarbonate, carbonate, sulfate, and halides in the water.see dissolved solids |
| seed | fertilized, mature ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant; any part of a plant that will reproduce, including tubers and bulbs; offspring of progeny |
| self-feeders | device that allows animals the choice of when to recieve feed |
| spawn | the mass of eggs deposited in the water be fishes, amphibians, and other aquatic animals; to deposit eggs or sperm |
| warmwater | water exeeding 70 degrees |
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