Vocabulary Unit 7
A period of dryness that lasts for a long time
What is a drought?
The noun form of the adjective healthy
What is health?
This percentage represents the amount of Earth's water that is usable.
What is (less than) 1%?
What is food?
A one word coordinating conjunction that identifies the cause of something
What is so?
The process of removing salt from water
What is desalination?
The process by which people receive the food that is necessary for them to grow and be healthy
What is nutrition?
The reason more water is used today than 100 years ago
What is a larger population?
Some companies use this genetic code to create personalized diet plans for their customers
What is DNA?
A one word subordinating conjunction that identifies the cause of something
What is because (or since or as)?
Water with a high concentration of salt
What is brine?
An amount that is lacking or inadequate; a shortage
What is deficiency?
It takes this many liters of water to make a hamburger.
What is 8000 liters?
This resulted in higher prices and more highly processed food in hospitals.
What is hiring outside companies?
When one cause leads to an effect, which becomes the cause for an additional effect, which becomes the cause
What is a (cause and effect) chain?
A mixture of saltwater and freshwater
What is brackish [water]?
Industrial, manufactured food using five or more ingredients that are not normally found in home kitchens
What is ultra processed (food)?
A lack of this between two countries on shared water sources can mean one country not treating water with the same care as the other.
What is cooperation?
Michael Pollan recommends shopping in these types of markets instead of large grocery stores.
What are farmers' markets?
Eating ice cream and getting a sunburn is an example of this.
What is correlation?
Lacking in quantity or number when compared to demand
What is scarcity?
A section of a grocery store where people can buy slices of cheese, slices of cooked meat, and containers of fresh salads
What is a deli(catessen)?
Countries that could use desalination plants may not have them because of this.
What is the expense?
A lack of this vitamin can cause a serious disease called pellagra.
What is vitamin B?
This four letter conjunctive adverb signals an effect.
What is thus?