Chapter 5: Agriculture and Food Production

Question 1

Food security

Answer 1

A Daily Access to Food; Opposite of Food Insecurity

Question 2

Malnutrition

Answer 2

Not Enough Nutrition per day to be Healthy

Question 3

Monetarists claim:

Answer 3

That the Government is to blame for poor distribution of food

Question 4

Structuralists claim:

Answer 4

The low productivity of land tenure system is to blame

Question 5

Three ways of producing food:

Answer 5

Agriculture, Range lands, and Fisheries

Question 6

2/3 of the World’s Population survive on:

Answer 6

Wheat, Rice, or Corn

Question 7

Crop Production 1 is:

Answer 7

Industrialized Agriculture

Question 8

Subsistance Agriculture is

Answer 8

One crop per land, Crop Production 1

Question 9

Some Problems with Crop Production 1 are:

• Soil erosion
• Pest paradise (one crop)
• Overland flow erosion
• Wind erosion

Answer 9

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Question 10

Crop Production 2

Answer 10

Traditional Agriculture

Question 11

Crop Production 2:

• Agrodiversity (multiple crops)
• Pests struggle
• Rills and Gulleys
• Desertifacation
• Salinization: irrigation

Answer 11

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Question 12

Crop Production 3 had:

Answer 12

Two Green Revolutions

Question 13

1st Green Revolution introduced:

Answer 13

The selection of genes to make crops grow better

Question 14

2nd Green Revolution introduced:

Answer 14

GMOs

Question 15

Relative Scarcity is when

Answer 15

There is more than enough food, but it isn’t distributed well enough that everyone gets some.

Question 16

Pests are:

Answer 16

Species that compete with us

Question 17

Pests are kept in check in:

Answer 17

Natural Ecosystems

Question 18

Pests are invasive in:

Answer 18

Modernized Croplands

Question 19

Pesticides

• Designed to kill pests
• Broad spectrum agents: Used to kill many different pests
• Narrow spectrum agents: Used to target one type of pest

Answer 19

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