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WorksheetsFeeding the World
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or do not eat a sufficient variety of foods to fulfill their body's needs?
a)
Malnutrition
b)
Hunger
c)
Diet
d)
Food
2.
What is the type of and amount of food that a person consumes called?
a)
Nachos
b)
Starvation
c)
Diet
d)
Food
3.
What is the measure of the quantity of food produced on a given area of land with limited inputs of energy and resources called?
a)
Money
b)
Trees
c)
Agriculture
d)
Food efficiency
4.
The amount of food that can be produced in a given area?
a)
Yield
b)
A lot
c)
Diet
d)
Malnutrition
5.
About how many people in any given year around the world are malnourished?
a)
1
b)
1,000
c)
132,000
d)
925,000,000
6.
What was the revolution that increased rice and wheat production called?
a)
Business revolution
b)
Green revolution
c)
Hungarian revolution
d)
Nutrition revolution
7.
What are two things are connected directly to malnutrition?
a)
Money and peace
b)
Happiness and money
c)
Hunger and environment
d)
Poverty and violence
8.
What is famine?
a)
Extreme scarcity of food
b)
Abundance of food
c)
Abundance of money
d)
Scarcity of money
9.
Where do subsistence farmers often times live?
a)
In poverty
b)
In cities
c)
In Hawaii
d)
In London
10.
Which two countries increased their rice and wheat production during the Green Revolution?
a)
America and India
b)
America and Mexico
c)
India and Mexico
d)
North Dakota and Texas
11.
What action can be taken to feed more people?
a)
Abolishment of poverty
b)
Abolishment of Taco Bell
c)
Abolishment of rich people
d)
Abolishment of America
12.
Is the worlds population increasing faster than the decline of poverty is decreasing?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
Maybe
d)
Both B and C
13.
Is the result of rapid economic development in East Asia, China and India a decline in poverty?
a)
No
b)
America
c)
maybe
d)
Yes
14.
About how many people around the world live off of $1.25 per day?
a)
10
b)
1
c)
197,000
d)
1.3 million
15.
Research today is devoted to developing plant varieties that produce high yields of nutritious food in poor soil.
a)
True
b)
False
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