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Food Insecurity

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

About how much food waste does America produce yearly?

*(Hint) - It's more than 100 Billion Pounds

a)

1 Million Pounds

b)

108 Billion Pounds

c)

156 Billion Pounds

d)

187 Billion Pounds

2.

About how much carbon dioxide (Co2) does food waste make in a year?

a)

About 170 million metric tons.

b)

Environmentally impacting the Alpines, 400 thousand customary tons.

c)

2 million metric tons.

d)

Fruits are dying from about 100 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide every millisecond.

3.

What percent of kids are food insecure in Jacksonville?

a)

100%

b)

21.1%

c)

In the year 1657, 78% of children were left without food.

d)

68.22222% of children.

4.

What reasons do people have for wasting food? (Pick 2)

a)

They want a good smelling trashcan.

b)

They didn't want to tract foodborne diseases.

c)

Food can expire.

d)

Their dog can't eat it.

e)

The ceiling might fall on it if the food is not disposed of. They didn't want debris on their meal.

5.

What are some of the environmental impacts of food waste? (Pick 3)

a)

It can cause landfills to fill up and spill over on the forest. The atomic reactions of the convection created by this caused the apocalypse.

b)

Landfills create greenhouse gases.

c)

Nitrogen pollution causes algea blooms and dead zones.

d)

Diseases can spread from landfill pollution.

e)

It will pile up so much that there is no room for the environment.

6.

True or False: Climate Change positively impacts the global food system.

a)

False

b)

True

7.

What are product life cycles? (Life Cycle Analysis)

a)

The study of washing machines

b)

Examining the life cycle of a butterfly

c)

Evaluating the environmental impacts of each step in the production and use of a certain product

d)

Showing how the making of a good or service impacts glycolysis.

8.

How does climate change impact us?

a)

Climate change impacts us when the climate doesn't change

b)

Climate change is when areas in the tropics start decreasing temperature

c)

Climate change impacts us by heating up the convection cycles in the jet streams that heat up due to unnatural human activity.

d)

Climate change impacts us by creating long-term weather pattern changes and changes to our natural environment.

9.

What is climate change?

a)

The mitochondrial cell energy is growing larger and heating up the climate of the Earth.

b)

Long term shifts in temperature and waether patterns, most recently caused by human activity

c)

Geothermal energy in the Earth is increasingly becoming hotter

d)

When the climate gets cold enough for people to make popsicles outside

10.

What causes climate change?

a)

Zark Muckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg's evil twin wreaking havoc on the planet)

b)

The use of large amounts of molecular compounds in the partician class

c)

The release of homozygous chromosomes in the atmosphere

d)

Human activites such as the burning of fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gases.

11.

How does climate change impact the production of food? (Select 2)

a)

The compostable degraded waste in the materilized system of the agriculture in your area.

b)

It is a natural refrigeration system for preservation of perishable foods.

c)

More frequent natural disasters, such as fires, hurricanes, floods, and heat waves that damage crops.

d)

People can fry eggs on their cars.

e)

Increased levels of carbon dioxide can lower important nutrients in plants.

12.

Which of the following is a way to slow down the impact of climate change?

a)

Defeat Zark Muckerberg

b)

Use public transportation to reduce your carbon footprint

c)

Stop refrigerating potato chips

d)

Using collective gases from the production industry to evaluate the cost of global warming

13.

How does climate change affect food security?

a)

Puts food production at risk

b)

It spoils the milk created for birds

c)

The soil is rich and the fertilizaer can help plants grow and is EXTREMELY beneficial to vegetation growth

d)

Eating healthy can benefit healthy lifestyles

14.

What are some simple ways for people in the community to improve food security?

a)

Eating junk food which results in healthy lifestyles, which helps improve food security

b)

Wasting healthy grown food that no one wants to eat which is totally the best way to improve food security

c)

Family and School Gardens

d)

Rabbits, cows, and birds can help food security by helping defeat Zark Muckerberg which will help growth in farming and agriculture

15.

How much did you learn from this quiz?

a)

1 - Literally Nothing

b)

2 - A little

c)

3 - An okay amount

d)

4 - a good amount

e)

5 - a lot