Food Security

The number of food banks in the US has ______ since 1980.

• decreased
• slightly increased
• greatly increased
• remained the same

Maine has a(n) _______ degree of food insecurity.

• relatively high
• relatively low
• average

Climate change affects agriculture through changes in _________.

• temperature
• rainfall
• carbon dioxide
• all of these

With climate change, it appears that there are increases in crop yield in the _________.

• lower latitudes

• middle latitudes

• higher latitudes

• middle and higher latitudes

In the past 40 years, the frost-free season in Maine has increased by ________ days.

• 3 to 4

• 10 to 15

• 30 to 40

• 0

With changes in climate, restaurant buyers can expect to order ________.

• different crops
• the same crops at different times
• both different crops and the same crops at different times

The current world population is about ________ billion.

• seven

• eight

• nine

• ten

It is estimated that _________ percent of the food wasted in the US ends up in landfills.

• 33
• 40
• 90
• more than 90

Extreme weather events include _________.

• flooding 
• droughts
• heat waves
• all of these

One in _____ American children will be on food assistance at some point.

• two
• ten
• fifty
• one hundred