Food and Agriculture Review

When one person's diet doesn't have enough nutrients or Calories, they suffer from ____________.

• famine
• malnutrition
• anemia
• scurvy

What is he term for the amount of food produced in an area?

• arable
• efficiency
• yield
• soil conservation

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A diet that is high in lipids/fats and proteins would imply living in a ____________.

• developed nation
• developing nation
• least developed nation
• undercooked nation

How many essential amino acids must humans eat (since they cannot make them)?

• 4
• 8
• 14
• 20

Even though the Green Revolution had its downsides (need for chemicals and water), the positive was ____________.

• availability for ALL farmers
• cheaper costs
• higher yields
• tastier grains

Arable land is best described as ___________.

• degraded
• desertified
• suitable for farming
• covered in building

Bacteria, earthworms, insects, fungi, and decaying matter are all ________ that contribute to fertile soil.

• living
• biotic
• abiotic
• irrelevant

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Farming practices like plowing, irrigation, and overfarming/grazing lead to loss of topsoil through __________.

• contour plowing
• lying fallow
• leeching
• erosion

Compost is a type of fertilizer, mainly composed of __________.

• cow or sheep manure
• decaying plant matter
• rotting meat
• industrial chemicals

Which of the following is a method to prevent desertification. 

• overgrazing
• high powered sprinklers
• frequent plowing
• allowing land to lie fallow

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