Chapter 7

Question 1

How many people suffer from under-nutrition?

Answer 1

870 million people

Question 2

Receiving few calories than minimum dietary energy requirement is ______________

Answer 2

under-nutrition

Question 3

Every 5 seconds a child dies of ___________.

Answer 3

under-nutrition

Question 4

a shortage of needed nutrients; occurs when a person fails to obtain complete proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals.

Answer 4

malnutrition

Question 5

Malnutrition leads to ____________.

Answer 5

disease

Question 6

high starch, deficient protein

bloating, deterioration/discoloration of hair, mental disability, reduced growth,

Answer 6

Kwashiorkor

Question 7

protein deficiency and lack of calories

Answer 7

Marasmus

Question 8

The practice of raising crops and live stock for human use & consumption

Answer 8

agriculture

Question 9

land used to raise plants for human use is ________________

Answer 9

cropland

Question 10

land used for grazing livestock is ____________________

Answer 10

rangeland

Question 11

_______________ is practiced on 38% of the Earth’s surface.

Answer 11

Agriculture

Question 12

______________ uses more land than any other human activity.

Of this, 26% is used for ______________,
and 12% is used for _______________.

Answer 12

Agriculture

rangeland
cropland

Question 13

Where do we get most of our food and fiber from?

Answer 13

cropland and rangeland

Question 14

How long has the human species been in existence?

Answer 14

200,000 years

Question 15

Humans are____________/____________

Answer 15

Hunter/Gatherers

Question 16

_____________ years ago people began to raise plants from seed and domesticate animals.

Answer 16

10,000

Question 17

___________________ is the work of cultivating, harvesting, storing, and distributing crops performed by human and animal power with hand tools and machines.

Answer 17

traditional agriculture

Question 18

________________ is mixtures of different crops in small plots of farmland.

Answer 18

Poly culture

Question 19

Traditional farmers usually practice ________________.

Answer 19

Poly culture

Question 20

Traditional _____________ is still used today, but has overtaken new methods to increase crop yields.

Answer 20

agriculture

Question 21

_____________________ introduced large-scale mechanization and fossil fuel combustion to agriculture.

Answer 21

The industrial revolution

Question 22

Replacing agricultural practices with mechanics to provide faster and more powerful ways of cultivating, harvesting, transporting, and processing crops is called ______________________.

Answer 22

Industrial agriculture

Question 23

_______________ is practiced on 25% of the world’s cropland.

Answer 23

Industrial agriculture

Question 24

Planting areas with single crops in orderly, straight rows is called ______________________.

Answer 24

mono culture

Question 25

______________ makes farming more efficient.

Answer 25

Mono culture

Question 26

What are the downfalls to mono culture?

Answer 26

• reduced biodiversity.

- plants are susceptible to diseases, pathogens, and pests that can spread from plant to plant.