Foodstudies Exam Chap 1-8

Question 1

Define industrialisation.

Answer 1

A process in which a country or society is transformed from a primarily agricultural society to one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.

Question 2

Define globalisation.

Answer 2

A process by which the world has become interconnected as a result of increased trade and cultural exchange.

Question 3

List the three most popular grains.

Answer 3

1. Wheat
2. Corn
3. Rice

Question 4

Define hunter-gatherer.

Answer 4

The term used to describe humans who obtain their food from nature, hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

Question 5

List features of hunter-gatherers.

Answer 5

1. Mobile or nomadic
2. Made up of small groups of people to preserve food supplies.
3. All men and women, young or old, where considered to have equal power and respect.

Question 6

List methods of obtaining resources for hunter-gatherers.

Answer 6

1. Hunting
2. Foraging

Question 7

Define firestick farming.

Answer 7

Regularly burning vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the plant and animal species in an area.

Question 8

Define Silk Road.

Question 9

List the key food commodities.

Answer 9

1. Chocolate
2. Spices
3. Tea
   4.Coffee
4. Oil
5. Sugar
6. Maize

Question 10

Define food commodity.

Question 11

Define Fertile Crescent.

Answer 11

A semi-circular or crescent shaped region of fertile land to the east of the Mediterranean Sea that forms a ‘bridge’ between Africa and Eurasia.

Question 12

Describe the impact of social media on food trends.

Question 13

List three dishes from Lebanon.

Answer 13

1. Tabouli
2. Kafta
3. Baklava

Question 14

Define agriculture.

Answer 14

The practice of cultivating land, growing crops and feeding, breeding and raising livestock.

Question 15

Define horticulture.

Answer 15

The cultivation and management of a garden or orchard.

Question 16

Define food system.

Answer 16

The path that food travels from ‘paddock to plate’.

Question 17

List 3 Japanese foods.

Answer 17

1. Miso soup
2. Sushi
3. Sashimi

Question 18

Define domestication.

Answer 18

The process of using selective breeding to make wild plants and animals more useful to humans.

Question 19

Explain why certain animals were better suited for domestication.

Question 20

Define trade.

Question 21

Define canning.

Question 22

Describe the impact that canning has had on people’s health.

Question 23

Define pasteurisation.

Question 24

Define UHT heating.

Question 25

Describe the process of pasteurisation.

Question 26

Describe the process of UHT heating.

Question 27

List two hunter-gatherer societies.

Answer 27

1. The Sami
2. The Mbuti People