WorksheetsEating our way to extinction movie
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Each year, the planet loses ____________ acres of land, equal to size of Panama.
8
80 million
18 million
8 billion
By 2030, ______ of forests will remain if nothing changes.
5%
10%
25%
50%
The single cause of deforestation is _____________. (NASA, 2009)
space aliens
animal agriculture
organic agriculture
water contamination
_________ farming is the leading cause of ocean dead zones. (EPA, 2018)
Livestock
Organic
Rice
Biodynamic
___ of all edible fish caught in the ocean are fed to livestock and farmed fish. (FAO, 2009)
1/4
1/3
1/2
3/4
The Great Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Ocean is ______ sq.km.
1000
1.6 million
16 million
1 trillion
____ of plastic in the ocean is made up of fishing gear. (Lebreton et al, Nature, 2018)
10%
40%
80%
95%
Since 1970, we have wiped out over ______ of animal populations on the planet. (WWF, 2016)
10%
25%
40%
60%
______________ is the leading cause of biodiversity loss. (Florida International University)
Livestock farming
Pollinators
Soil loss
Cars
How many species are currently threatened with extinction?
5,000
15,600
26,000
32,452
The U.S. government gives yearly _______ to fruit and vegetable farming and _________ to meat and dairy farming.
$20 million; $38 billion
$38 billion; $20 million
$3 billion; $3 billion
$2 million; $38 million
Over _____ of antibiotics produced around the world are now being given to livestock. (Our World Index, 2017)
25%
50%
75%
105%
The likelihood of a global food system collapse is _____. (Nature, 2020)
increasing
decreasing
the same
A quarter pounder takes _____ gallons of water to create.
6
60
660
6600
