Food Production

Question 1

people who cannot grow or buy enough food to meet their basic energy needs, which threaten their ability to live healthy and productive lives

Answer 1

chronic undernutrition or hunger

Question 2

individuals do not get enough protein and other key nutrients

Answer 2

chronic malnutrition

Question 3

severe shortage of food in an area that can result in mass starvation, many deaths, economic chaos, and social disruption
-DUE TO: crop failure, droughts, flooding, war

Answer 3

famine

Question 4

differences of vitamin A can lead to

Answer 4

blindness

Question 5

deficiencies of iron can lead to

Answer 5

anemia

Question 6

deficiencies of iodine can lead to

Answer 6

disfunction of the thyroid gland, stunted growth, brain damage

Question 7

an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food

Answer 7

food desert

Question 8

daily access to enough nutritious food and to live healthy lives

Answer 8

food security

Question 9

organizations that try to correct food deserts

Answer 9

food bank
vines
food pantry
bing food rescue

Question 10

croplands produce

Answer 10

rice, soy, wheat, corn

Question 11

rangelands and pastures produce

Answer 11

meat and meat production

Question 12

fisheries produce

Answer 12

fish and shellfish products

Question 13

manufactured chemicals that contain nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, calcium

Answer 13

synthetic fertilizers

Question 14

manufactured chemicals to kill or control populations of organisms that interfere with crop production

Answer 14

synthetic pesticides

Question 15

characterized by the use of heavy equipment, large amounts of financial capital, fossil fuels, water, commercial inorganic fertilizers, and pesticides to produce single crops or monocultures

Answer 15

industrialized agriculture

Question 16

a form of industrialized agriculture, usually in tropical countries
-monoculture of bananas, coffee, soybeans, sugarcane, and palm oil

Answer 16

plantation agriculture

Question 17

use energy from the sun with the labor of humans and draft animals to produce enough crops for a farm families survival with little left over

Answer 17

traditional agriculture

Question 18

government payments or tax breaks intended to help farmers stay in business and increase their yields

Answer 18

farm subsidies

Question 19

fed grains, soybeans, fish meal, or fish oil potentially with growth hormones and antibiotics in confined areas
-major emitter of methane

Answer 19

CAFOs

Question 20

industrialized food production uses fossil fuels for the following 5 factors

Answer 20

• farm machinery
• fishing vessels
• pump irrigation
• producing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides
• process, manufacture, transport food

Question 21

three environmental impacts of industrialized food production

Answer 21

• erosion
• excessive irrigation
• agrobiodiversity loss

Question 22

3 impacts of growing biofuels

Answer 22

Land conversion for sugar cane and palm oil production

• reduction of biodiversity
• land for fuel, not food

Question 23

3 impacts of meat production

Answer 23

• waste everywhere
• methane
• use of antibiotics

Question 24

3 impacts of aquaculture

Answer 24

• wild fish from oceans is to make fish meal to feed the fish
• fish high on trophic levels
• certain environments could be cleared for fish farms - loss of biodiversity and potential flood control

Question 25

effective, but can be dangerous to humans and other wildlife

Answer 25

drawback of synthetic pesticides

Question 26

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ are an alternative to synthetic pesticides 
consist of... 
-natural predators
-parasites
-disease caused by bacteria and viruses

Answer 26

biological controls

Question 27

integrated pest management includes
1.
2.
3.

Answer 27

biological controls
cultivation controls
possibly applying small amounts of pesticides