Question

Mallory wrote an informative text about urban gardening. Here is an excerpt from her text:

Urban gardening gives people an opportunity to supplement their diets with locally grown produce. Balconies, abandoned lots, and rooftops can be transformed into miniature farms, reducing environmental pressures that come from growing, harvesting, and transporting food produced by large agricultural companies, or agribusiness.

What does the word “agribusiness” represent in this text?

A.
It is a detail added to spark interest in the topic.
B.
It comes from a quotation used to support the topic.
C.
It is a domain-specific term related to the topic of food production.
D.
It is a transition that connects the ideas of urban gardening and modern agriculture.

Answer 1

D. It is a transition that connects the ideas of urban gardening and modern agriculture

Step-by-step explanation:

In the text it says reducing environmental pressures that come from growing, harvesting, and transporting food. Agribusiness (also called bio-business or bio-enterprise) refers to the enterprises, the industry, the system, and the field of study of the interrelated and interdependent value chains in agriculture and bioeconomy. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit while sustainably satisfying the needs of consumers for products related to natural resources such as biotechnology, farms, food, forestry, fisheries, fuel, and fiber — usually with the exclusion of non-renewable resources such as mining. So I believe D would make the most sense.

Answer 2

B I think.

Step-by-step explanation: