8.6 Environmental science (food scarcity)

What continent has the highest percentage of people that are food insecure?

• Africa
• South America
• Europe
• Asia

What continent has the largest NUMBER of people that are food insecure?

• Europe
• Africa
• North America
• Asia

Put the US racial groups in order from MOST food secure to LEAST food SECURE.

• White Americans, Black Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans

• White Americans, Latino Americans, Black Americans, Native Americans

• Black Americans,

  White Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans

• Hispanic Americans, Black Americans,

  White Americans, Native Americans

What percentage of the global population is undernourished?

• 17.8%
• 5.6%
• 9%

• 12.3%

How many years ago did the practice of agriculture begin?

• between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago

• 15,000 years ago
• 8,000 years ago
• 20,000 years ago

What percentage of the global population is severely food insecure?

• 12%

• 6%

• 16%

• 11%

What lifestyle did people lead before agriculture?

• Nomadic lifestyle
• Industrial lifestyle
• Digital lifestyle
• Sedentary lifestyle

What factors contribute to high or increasing rates of food insecurity? (choose all that apply)

• high birth rates and high poverty

• Improved technology for food production
• low GDP (gross domestic product)

  and war

• Increased government funding for food security programs

There are approximately 8 billion people in the world (7 according to the test) -

what fraction of those people rely on subsistence agriculture?

• 1/8 or 0.125
• 2/7 or .286

• 1/2 or 0.5
• 3/4 or 0.75

What type of agriculture involves slash and burn, abandon land and clear new land

• Intensive farming
• Terrace farming
• Vertical farming
• Shifting cultivation