Geography in the News - Special Food Security Edition - Term 3

1. Russia has blockaded ports in which sea that has

affected Ukraine’s grain exports to the world?

• a) Red Sea

• b) Black Sea

• c) Baltic Sea

• d) North Sea

2. Ukrainian grain shippers have carved out a fresh

export route through ports in which country on the

Baltic Sea?

• a) Spain

• b) France

• c) Poland

• d) Belarus

3. What impact has the continuing war in Ukraine

had on the world’s grain prices?

• a) Prices have gone up

• b) Prices have gone down

• c) There has been no impact on grain prices

• d) Prices are now given in Russian rubles

4. With production of 1,207 metric tonnes which

grain topped the list in terms of world production

in 2021/22?

• a) Rice

• b) Wheat

• c) Corn

• d) Barley

5. What percentage of corn grown in the U.S. is

sweet corn that people eat fresh, frozen

or canned, the rest being field corn which is used

to make biofuels, animal feed and food additives?

• a) 1%

• b) 10%

• c) 15%

• d) 20%

6. Which country on the Horn of Africa is running out

of affordable food because its local harvests have

been wiped out by four successive failed rainy

seasons, and its major imports of wheat from

Russia and Ukraine have been disrupted?

• a) Somalia

• b) South Africa

• c) Namibia

• d) Egypt

7. What will make the US corn belt unsuitable for

corn by 2100 without major technological

advances?

• a) Soil depletion

• b) Climate change

• c) Overuse of herbicides

• d) Overuse of pesticides

8. Many people in which country ruled by the

Taliban are forced to eat scraps of stale bread as

its food security has decreased in recent times?

• a) Pakistan

• b) Turkmenistan

• c) Afghanistan

• d) Kazakhstan

9. Which delivery service is helping the UN deliver

food and water supplies to war-torn parts of

Ukraine?

• a) Amazon

• b) Hello Fresh

• c) Alibaba

• d) Uber Eats

10. Which South Asian island nation is giving

government workers an extra day off a week to

encourage them to grow food, amid fears of a

food shortage?

• a) India

• b) Sri Lanka

• c) Pakistan

• d) Bangladesh