Old School Farming
The process of supplying water to crops via man-made canals or pipes.
Irrigation
This 20th-century movement used high-yield seeds and chemical fertilizers to massive increase food production.
Green (3rd) Revolution
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a water shortage.
Drought
The Aral Sea is located in this world region, formerly part of the Soviet Union.
Central Asia
This is the name of the eccentric inventor who creates the machine that turns water into food.
Flint Lockwood
This technique involves changing the type of crop grown in a field each season to keep the soil fertile
Crop rotation
Organisms whose genetic material has been altered in a lab to resist pests or drought.
GMO
The process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought or deforestation.
desertification
The Aral Sea shrank because water was diverted from its feeding rivers to grow this "thirsty" crop.
Cotton
This is the full name of the machine (the acronym) that converts water molecules into delicious meals.
What is the FLDSMDFR? (Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator)
This heavy farming implement is pulled by animals to turn over the upper layer of soil, bringing fresh nutrients to the surface.
While these chemicals kill bugs that eat crops, they can also cause soil and water pollution.
pesticides
An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds groundwater
aquifer
As the water evaporated, the remaining water became much higher in this, killing off the fish.
Salinity
Before the food started falling from the sky, the town of Swallow Falls survived entirely on this one "gross" type of seafood.
sardines
Invented by Jethro Tull in 1701, this mechanical device allowed farmers to sow seeds in neat rows at specific depths.
Seed drill
The type of farming where families grow only enough food to feed themselves, with little left to sell.
subsistence farming
The expensive process of removing salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
desalination
Because the ecosystem collapsed, the Aral Sea saw a massive loss in this—the variety of life in an area.
biodiversity
: Flint’s invention technically solves "food insecurity," but it causes a disaster when the food grows to this—a term used in the movie to describe the massive, dangerous size of the items.
supersized
Before chemical fertilizers, farmers used this organic material (animal waste) to add nitrogen back into the soil.
This specific GMO "Golden" grain was engineered to contain Vitamin A to help prevent blindness in developing nations
This refers to the legal claim to use water from a specific source, often contested by neighboring countries
Water Rights
When the demand for water exceeds the available amount during a certain period
water scarcity
Similar to real-world environmental issues, the food in the movie becomes dangerous and "mutates" because of this—a term for when the machine is pushed too hard.
overloading (or a "food storm")?