Terrestrial food production systems and food choices ESS

Which of the following has the highest environmental footprint during production?

• Beef

• Nuts

• Pork

• Chicken

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Compared to commercial intensive farming, sustainable farming methods involve which of the following?

• Greater irrigation.

• Using more pesticides.

• Growing more varieties of crops.

• Increase use of fertilizers.

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

A farm which uses small inputs of capital and labor relative to its size is called:

• Intensive

• Commercial

• Extensive

• Subsistence

What is the likely impact, if any, of the growing human population on the availability of land for food production?

• It is hard to determine due to uncertain predictions about the human population growth.

• Land availability remains constant.

• Land availability increases.

• Land availability decreases.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

One of the methods used in sustainable food production to replace pesticides is introducing natural predators. Which of the following species is an example of one?

• Aphids

• Ladybirds/ladybugs

• The crown-of-thorns starfish

• The Colorado potato beetle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following practices in industrialized terrestrial food production systems contributes the most to global climate change?

• Soil erosion leads to nutrient depletion of soil and therefore, less vegetation to fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the process of photosynthesis.

• Monoculture use leads to a loss of biodiversity when crops are struck with disease.

• Mechanization increases fossil fuel use and emits gases such as carbon dioxide or methane.

• All of the answer alternatives.

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

Which of the following terrestrial food production systems may be regarded as the most sustainable?

• Maasai tribal livestock cultivation.

• Slash and burn agriculture.

• North American cereal farming.

• All of them are equally sustainable.

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which one of the following is an input that plays the most crucial role in subsistence rice farming in South East Asia?

• Water for irrigation

• Alien species

• Rice

• Money

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

Which one of the following responses indicates which agricultural system(s) produce significant levels of atmospheric pollutants?

• Slash and burn agriculture

• Intensive beef production

• Both intensive beef production and slash and burn agriculture

• Neither intensive beef production nor slash and burn agriculture

Which one of the following terrestrial food production systems uses the highest amounts of fertilizers?

• Intensive beef production

• North American cereal farming

• Maasai tribal livestock cultivation

• Subsistence farming in South-East Asia