WorksheetsFood Security - Year 9
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the official definition of food security?
a)
When people choose to purchase and consume foods leading to an unbalanced diet.
b)
When global catastrophes strike causing massive changes in supply and demand markets
c)
When people have availability and adequate access at all times to safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life
d)
The state of being very wealthy in order to buy a range of foods
2.
What are the 4 pillars of food security?
a)
Availability, Diet, Money, Diversity
b)
Access, Availability, Diet, Security
c)
Mode, Median, Mean, Range
d)
Availability, Access, Utilisation, Stability
3.
What does the pillar, Availability mean?
a)
It is about food supply and trade, not just quantity but also the quality and diversity of food.
b)
It is about how the body uses the various nutrients in food such as feeding practices, food preparation, diversity of their diet.
4.
How can food Availability be improved?
a)
It requires sustainable productive farming systems, well managed natural resources, and policies to enhance productivity.
b)
It requires improving nutrition and food safety, increasing diversity in diets, reducing post-harvest loss and adding value to food.
5.
What does the pillar Access mean?
a)
It is all about being food secure at all times.
b)
It is how humans can afford food within their budget and can also physically reach sources of food.
6.
How can food Access be improved?
a)
It requires the establishment of sufficient 'social nets' through stable governments and consistent trade.
b)
It requires better market access for small farmers, markets that are close by and can be easily reached and enough money to buy healthy food
7.
What does the pillar Utilisation mean?
a)
It is about food supply and trade, not just quantity but also the quality and diversity of food.
b)
It is about how the body uses the various nutrients in food such as food preparation, feeding practices and diversity of diet.
8.
How can food Utilisation be improved?
a)
It requires improving nutrition and food safety, increasing diversity in diets, reducing post-harvest loss and adding value to food.
b)
It requires governments to be less corrupt.
9.
What does the pillar Stability mean?
a)
It is about humans being protected from food shocks at all times, such as bad seasons, change in employment, price rises or conflict.
b)
It is about food supply and trade, not just quantity but also the quality and diversity of food
10.
How can food Stability be improved?
a)
It requires better market access for smallholders allowing them to generate more income from cash crops, livestock products and other enterprises.
b)
It can be improved by the establishment of sufficient 'social nets' through stable governments, fair and consistent trade.
11.
Name the biome.
I have very high amounts of rainfall and hot and humid temperatures throughout the year.
I have very high amounts of rainfall and hot and humid temperatures throughout the year.
a)
Desert
b)
Tropical rain-forest
c)
Deciduous Forest
d)
Grasslands
12.
Name the biome...
I am found in high latitudes in the northern hemisphere where it is freezing, and I tend to insulate myself in cone-bearing firs and spruces.
I am found in high latitudes in the northern hemisphere where it is freezing, and I tend to insulate myself in cone-bearing firs and spruces.
a)
Tundra
b)
Taiga
c)
Deciduous Forest
d)
Temperate Forest (Coniferous)
13.
Name the biome...
I get rather cold in the winter, have warm summers and tend to lose my leaves in autumn.
I get rather cold in the winter, have warm summers and tend to lose my leaves in autumn.
a)
Desert
b)
Tropical rain-forest
c)
Deciduous forest
d)
Taiga
14.
Name the biome...
I am pretty common in Australia, can get very cold at nights, but extremely parched and thirsty in the summers
I am pretty common in Australia, can get very cold at nights, but extremely parched and thirsty in the summers
a)
Desert
b)
Tropical rain-forest
c)
Deciduous forest
d)
Grasslands
15.
Name the biome...
I am a south-western based forest in Australia with warm winters, cool summers, and I provide very fertile soils for growing a range of foods.
I am a south-western based forest in Australia with warm winters, cool summers, and I provide very fertile soils for growing a range of foods.
a)
Tropical rain-forest
b)
Temperate rain-forest (Coniferous)
c)
Taiga
d)
Grasslands
16.
Name the biome...
I can be seen in wet/dry seasons in Africa but also in temperate regions throughout America and Russia. Cows, bison, deer and sheep love me!
I can be seen in wet/dry seasons in Africa but also in temperate regions throughout America and Russia. Cows, bison, deer and sheep love me!
a)
Taiga
b)
Temperate forest (Coniferous)
c)
Tundra
d)
Grasslands
17.
Why does tropical rain-forests grow around equatorial regions?
a)
Warm air hits mountain ranges or natural barriers causing the air to rise, cool, condense. It then falls as heavy rain.
b)
Two weather fronts hit each other. A low pressure cold front and a high pressure warm front. The cold air pushes the warm air upwards causing rapid cooling, condensing and heavy rainfall.
c)
Due to consistent hot and humid temperatures, hot air rises every day. As the air rises it cools rapidly, condenses and causes heavy and consistent rainfall leading to massive growth.
18.
What is the consequence of human impacts upon this biome?
a)
Forests are cleared for crops and grazing fields leading to soil degradation, erosion and extinction of native species.
b)
Prevents natural fish migration, blocks fertile sediment from replenishing downstream ecosystems,such as wetlands, not enough water to wash naturally occurring salt deposits away.
c)
Due to overgrazing, unsustainable use of water from aquifiers and rivers, once fertile soil is becoming dry and salty leading to desertification .
19.
What is the consequence of human impact upon this biome?
a)
Due to overgrazing, once fertile soil is becoming dry and salty leading to desertification .
b)
Prevents natural fish migration, blocks fertile sediment from replenishing downstream ecosystems,such as wetlands, not enough water to wash naturally occurring salt deposits away.
c)
As humans build and expand cities and suburbs, natural vegetation is cleared leading to the forced relocation and sometimes extinction of native species.
20.
About 12 million hectares of land is lost to desertification every year, which is about twice the size of Tasmania!
a)
True
b)
False
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