Chapter 7b

Question 1

Pests predators released to control intended pest is __________________________.

Answer 1

Biological control

Question 2

Entire beehives died is called __________________________.

Answer 2

Colony collapse

Question 3

Transfer of pollen from one to another plant is called______________________.

Answer 3

Pollination

Question 4

Since 1950 global meat production increased_____________.

Answer 4

Five fold

Question 5

Animals living in large masses is called _________________.

Answer 5

Feedlots

Question 6

Aquatic animals living in masses is called_______________________.

Answer 6

Aquaculture

Question 7

Adding, deleting, modifying DNA is called______________________.

Answer 7

GMO’s

Question 8

What are the pros of GMOs?

Answer 8

More food, more nutrients, size, taste, color, pest resistant, heat resistant

Question 9

What are the cons of GMOs?

Answer 9

Health concerns, not natural, pollinate native natural species, making it GMO

Question 10

____________________ patent food and seed.

Answer 10

Monsanto

Question 11

_______% shelves are GMOs.

Answer 11

80%

Question 12

_______ is #1 for GMO crops.

Answer 12

U.S

Question 13

DNA from one species injected in another is called ________________________________.

Answer 13

Transgenic organism

Example: Spider goats

Question 14

Cut trees (slash, burn to release nutrients from soil for crop and cattle), nutrients left

Answer 14

Swiddon Ag

Question 15

Material moving from one area to another is ____________________.

Answer 15

Erosion

Question 16

______________________ are the primary cause of erosion.

Answer 16

Humans

Question 17

Degredation of topsoil leads to decreased crop yield with added population growth and sustain crop production and feeding masses

Answer 17

Erosion

Question 18

Cut crop and let it fall is _______________________________.

Answer 18

Conservation tillage

Question 19

Humans keep over 3 billion _______________, _____________, and ____________________

Answer 19

Cattle, sheep, and goats

Question 20

World wide food production is (higher or lower) now than in previous decades?

Answer 20

Higher

Question 21

20% of farmers income comes from _____________________.

Answer 21

Subsidies

Question 22

• # 1 use for water is _______________________.

Answer 22

Irrigation

Question 23

• Other uses of water include:

Answer 23

Waterlogging and salination

Question 24

Drip irrigation…

Answer 24

Directly waters plants

Question 25

• Kills pests?

Answer 25

Pesticides

Question 26

• kills insects?

Answer 26

Insecticides

Question 27

• Kills plants?

Answer 27

Herbicides

Question 28

• kills fungus?

Answer 28

Fungicides

Question 29

______________________ use has risen four times since 1960.

Answer 29

Pesticide

Question 30

___________________ production exceeds population growth.

Answer 30

Food

Question 31

Undernutrition: Every five seconds a child dies from?

Answer 31

Starvation

Question 32

Overnutrition: in the U.S, 60% are _____________ and 25% are ________________.

Answer 32

Overweight

Obese

Question 33

Overnutrition worldwide: 1.5 billion adults are _________________. At least 500million are ______________.

Answer 33

Overweight

Obese

Question 34

Naru: most _____________________ country.

Naru is in the South Pacific

Answer 34

Over nutritious

Question 35

• There are 1400 _________________________________.

Answer 35

Seed banks

Question 36

• Produced dwarf weed species to feed masses

Answer 36

Norman Borlog

Question 37

• What are the 3 most GMO foods?

Answer 37

Wheat, rice, corn

Question 38

The average farmer can feed how many people?

Answer 38

129

Question 39

Deficiency and iodine and vitamin A can make you _______________.

Answer 39

Blind