Food Availability and Selection

Question 1

What is a cash crop?

Answer 1

A crop grown to be sold and not consumed. For example coffee, tobacco and cotton.

Question 2

What’s the economy?

Answer 2

All activity related to production, distribution, consumption and trade of goods and services.

Question 3

What’s an Embargo?

Answer 3

When a country partially or completely stops trading with a particular country or group of countries.

Question 4

What’s food security?

Answer 4

When all people at all times have access to necessary safe, nourishing, culturally appropriate food to sustain a healthy, active life.

Question 5

Define poverty:

Answer 5

The state or condition of basic needs of food, clothing and shelter not being met; it may be absolute or relative.

Question 6

what is a staple food?

Answer 6

A food that makes up the main part of a population’s standard diet, contributing a significant portion of energy intake.

Question 7

What’s a subsidy?

Answer 7

A payment made to producers to encourage local production, supplement income and assist their operations.

Question 8

What’s a tariff?

Answer 8

A tax that adds to the cost of imported goods.

Question 9

Define affluence:

Answer 9

Great wealth and abundance.

Question 10

What does psychological refer to?

Answer 10

Relating to the human mind, mental and emotional state of a person.

Question 11

What does Physiological mean?

Answer 11

Relating to the body and its systems

Question 12

What is sensory perception?

Answer 12

Recognising and interpreting information gathered through the use of the senses.

Question 13

What is hunger?

Answer 13

The feeling of emptiness, weakness or pain caused by a lack of food.

Question 14

what is appetite?

Answer 14

The desire to eat even when you are not hungry.

Question 15

What is satiety?

Answer 15

The absence of hunger

Question 16

What factors influence food selection?

Answer 16

Economic, social, physiological and psychological or reactions to food.

Question 17

What are the 4 main plant staples?

Answer 17

wheat, rice and maize and potatoes

Question 18

What is bush tucker? Give examples:

Answer 18

the plants and animals eaten by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People prior to colonisation.
Examples include: grasses, seeds, fruits, berries, fish and emu.

Question 19

How did Global migration of cultural groups affect food selection.

Answer 19

The newcomer’s most preferred foods (staple foods) were brought with them and introduced into the local diet.

Question 20

What are some examples of the global migration of cultural groups?

Answer 20

1830’s Germans migrated to SA establishing vineyard/wine making particularly near Barossa Valley

1850’s Australian Gold Rush attracted people globally including Chinese groups who introduced veggies like bok choy and bean sprouts.

1960’s various fast food chains like McDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut were introduced by the Americans

Question 21

What factors affect food availability?

Answer 21

Historical changes (migration, native food)

Technological developments (smart farms, processing, marketplace)

Economic (type and state of the economy)

Poverty (cycle of poverty)

Political (government policy)

Question 22

What are some examples of how technology has influences the amount and type of food available?

Answer 22

Smart farms - Sensors and drones are used to monitor and collect data such as soil quality, light levels, ambient temperature, and humidity.

Equipment - Fridges and Freezers

Online marketplaces

Question 23

What is an economic boom?

Answer 23

A short period of time when there is high economic activity, low unemployment and rising prices.

Question 24

What is an economic recession?

Answer 24

A recession is a longer period of time when there is low economic activity and higher unemployment rates.

Question 25

What are the 5 types of economies?

Answer 25

Agricultural
Subsistence
Industrial
Market
Mixed

Question 26

What are agricultural economies?

Answer 26

Weak economies that rely on the producing and exporting of their agricultural products to maintain their living standards.

Question 27

What are subsistence economies?

Answer 27

Weak economies that depend on the weather to provide food to their population and do NOT produce a surplus in food.

Question 28

What is relative poverty and absolute poverty?

Answer 28

Relative poverty is when a person’s standard of living falls below the rest of the community, it is relive to the economic climate they live in.

Absolute poverty refers to the inability to afford the minimum amount of resources needed to meet the minimum living standards over a long period of time.

Question 29

What is a tariff?

Answer 29

A tax that adds to the cost of imported goods. Governments may impose tariffs to raise revenue or to protect domestic industries from foreign competition.

Question 30

What’s is social justice and the challenges in developing nations?

Answer 30

Ensuring freedom and equality for all people in everyday life, in all levels of society.

Challenges in developing countries

1. Food security
2. Production and consumption is environmentally sustainable
3. Promotion of public health