Food for the future quiz

1. What is the reading mainly about? (page 16)

• A

• B

• C

2. Why does the writer mention Ireland in the first paragraph? (page 16)

• A

• B

• C

3. What is true about Nikolay Vavilov? (page 16)

• A

• B

• C

4. Which statement would have Diane Ott Whealy probably agree with?

• A

• B

• C

5. The infographic on page 15 shows ______. (page 16)

• A

• B

• C

PART B. (page 16)

1. Historic plant varieties: ​ (a)  

2. Many people died here: ​ (b)  

3. 10% of past wheat varieties of wheat: ​ (c)  

4. far fewer varieties of rice than the past:​ (d)  

5. one of the largest seed banks: ​ (e)  

• Iowa
• Ireland
• China
• the Philippines
• Svalbard

The death of a single ​ (a)   species might not seem so important.

One solution is to collect and preserve the ​ (b)   of as many different plant varieties as we can before they disappear.

• crop
• seeds

Each species has special ​ (a)   . Some can be grown in very hot or cold climates.

... there were once thousands of ​ (b)   of rice; now fewer than 100 are grown here.

• qualities
• varieties

Reorder the following:

• plants

• Lumper

• potato

Reorder the following

• much

• on

• scale

• wider

• a