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What is the Cost of Living Crisis?

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When the cost of essential resources goes up to higher prices.

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What are examples of fossil fuels?

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Oil , Coal and Natural Gas

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What are examples of renewable energy sources?

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Wind Energy, Biomass, Solar Energy, Hydroelectricity, Geothermal, Tidal

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What is Virtual Water?

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Water that is not directly used by a consumer but in a product that we use?

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What are calories?

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The energy content of food

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What is the disease of affluence?

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When you can afford a lot of bad food which leads to malnourishment.

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What is undernourishment?

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When you have insufficient food to be healthy causing starvation.

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What is Malnourishment?

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Eating wrongly such as too low or too high in nutrients.

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What is consumer demand?

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What customers want to buy/see in the shops

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What is Out-of-Season?

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Food that only grows at certain times of year

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What is Exotic food?

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Food that cannot be grown in the UK.

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What are Food Miles?

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The distance food travels from producer to consumer.

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What is Carbon Footprint?

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The amount of greenhouse gases and particular activity produces.

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What is Local Food?

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Food that is consumed within 100 miles of where it is produced.

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What is Agribusiness?

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Treating food production as a large business.

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What is Organic Food?

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Food that is grown without chemicals

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What is Seasonal Food?

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Food that can only be grown in particular seasons.

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What is water surplus?

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Areas that have more water than they need.

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What is Water Deficit?

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Areas that do not have enough water for their population.

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What is water transfer?

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The moving of water from areas of surplus to areas of deficit.

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What is a fatberg?

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A rock-like mass of waste matter found in sewers formed by the combination of unflushed non-biodegradable solids, such as wet wipes, sanitary products and fat desposits.

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What are Point Sources?

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Sources that come from an easily identified place.

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What are Non-point sources?

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Sources that come from a wide area making the source hard to identify.

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What is Eutrophication?

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When nutrients wash into rivers causing an algal bloom to grow which is both toxic and blocks out sunlight so the water course becomes biologically dead.

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What is Fracking?

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When you drill a hole deep into rock before injecting a mixture of sand and water at high pressure into rock to release shale gas

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What is Food Security?

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When all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life

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What is Food Insecurity?

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The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food

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What is Desertification?

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The expansion of the Sahara desert leaving land that can no longer be farmed.

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What is the Sahel?

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The region to the South of the Sahara Desert. It is susceptible to desertification.

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What is Overgrazing?

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Excessive grazing of animals causing damage to grassland

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What is Over-Cultivation?

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Excessive growing of crops so that soil quality is degraded and productivity is reduced.

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What is Humus?

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The organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms.

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What is Famine?

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Extreme scarcity of food.

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What is Afforestation?

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When you plant trees in order to hold the soil together stopping wind erosion.

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What is Contraception?

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When you reduce population pressure upon theland so less food needs to be grown.

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What are Water Butts?

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Things that are used to capture rain in wet season for irrigating the land in the dry season.

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What are Cash Crops?

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Crops which are sold for profit.

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What are aeroponics?

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When plants are dangled in the air, nutrients are sprayed onto the roots of the plants every few minutes which means they grow quickly

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What are hydroponics?

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Plants which are grown in water. The nutrients of the plants are in a nutrient rich water bath throughout their lifespan.

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What is Flood irrigation?

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When fields are flooded in a controlled way by using pumps, canals or small dams.

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What is Cross Breeding?

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Produce by mating two different species with desirable qualities.

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What is High Yield Varieties?

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Seeds which can produce up to 10 times more crops than regular seeds on the same area of land

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What is the Green Revolution?

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A large increase in crop production in developing countries in 1960s by using fertilisers, pesticides and high yield varieties

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What is Holistic?

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To look at the whole process as one rather than just the final outcome.

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What is a Marginal Area?

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Areas where it is difficult to grow crops

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