Food and Agriculture

Which of the following is NOT a traditional farming practice?

• Manure as fertilizer
• Biological pest control
• Irrigation drip systems
• Irrigation ditches

Which is an immediate factor for the current food crisis?

• Decrease in human population
• High grain reserves
• drought in areas with a high crop yield
• increase in grain production

What may NOT lead to desertification of farmland?

• no-till farming
• over grazing cattle
• soil erosion

A condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or variety of foods.

• Famine
• Malnutrition
• Diet
• Yield

During the Green Revolution, who were the primary recipients of the increased food production?

• China & Spain
• Canada & the US
• Mexico & India
• Russia and Japan

Which is not a reason for the inequality of resource use across the world?

• social reasons
• economic reasons
• political reasons
• religious reasons

This is still widely debated among scientists.

• Meat production
• How to grow corn
• Malnutrition in the states
• Genetic Engineering

The agricultural practice of growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species at one time. 

• Uniculture
• Biculture
• Monoculture
• low input farming

Using machines, irrigation sprinklers, and chemical fertilizers are all examples of

• Traditional farming
• Subsistence farming
• Modern farming

This is NOT a source of famine around the world.

• War
• Natural Disaster
• New crop variety
• Crop failure by drought