Final Review

Choose the correct characteristic of a food desert:

• Desert climate

• Low income population

• Accessible grocery stores

• Residents have access to transportation

What is an area that has good access to affordable healthy food and an overabundance of unhealthy options as well.

• Food Oceans

• Food Deserts

• Food Swamps

• Food Surplus Areas

Select all of the elements that are limited in food deserts:

• Transportation

• Health care

• Grocery stores

• Gas stations

Select the characteristics of whole foods:

• Energy dense

• Nutrient dense

• Sugar dense

• Low to normal calories

• Contains fiber, vitamins and minerals

Select the characteristics of processed foods:

• Nutrient dense

• Energy dense

• Sugar dense

• Fiber removed along with most vitamins

• High quality fats

What event led to farm subsidies?

• The Farmers' Rebellion of 1936

• The Great Depression

• Floods of the 1800's

• World War I

Select the crops that are subsidized:

• wheat

• avocados

• potatoes

• cotton

• corn

Select the criteria that would make a food considered inorganic (NOT organic)

• use of sewage sludge

• use of irradiation

• use of GMO's

• use of all natural fertilizers

True or false: the organic certification application and inspection process is fairly easy and inexpensive

• true

• false

What is NOT a place you can go to support local agriculture?

• Farmer's markets

• Community gardens

• Convenience stores

• CSA programs