Feeding The World
The type and amount of food that a person eats make up their ____
What is a diet?
The movement of rock and soil by wind and water
What is erosion?
Any organism that occurs where it is not wanted or that causes economic damage
What is a pest?
Animals that are bred and managed for human use
What are domesticated animals?
What was the first brand of bubble gum to hit shelves?
What is Dubble Bubble?
A condition that occurs when people do not consume enough calories or do not eat a sufficient variety of foods to fulfill the body's needs
What is malnutrition?
The surface layer of soil which is usually rich in organic matter, where plant roots grow
What is topsoil?
Chemicals used to kill insects, weeds, and other crop pests
What are pesticides?
Catching or removing more organisms than the population can replace
What is overharvesting?
How many Great Lakes are there?
5!
Widespread starvation caused by a shortage of food
What is famine?
Partly decomposed organic material used enrich soil for planting
What is compost?
The use of living organisms to control pests
What is biological pest control?
The raising of aquatic organisms for human use or consumption
What is aquaculture?
Which planet has the most volcanoes?
What is Venus?
The amount of food that can be produced in a given area
What is a yield?
The process by which land in arid or semiarid lands becomes more desert-like
What is desertification?
The accumulation of salts in the soil
What is salinization?
Animals that are raised to be used on a farm or ranch, or to be sold for profit
What is livestock?
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A^2 + B^2 = C^2
What are carbohydrates (or sugars and starches), lipids (or fats) and proteins?
Land that can be used to grow crops (only about 10% of Earth's surface)
What is arable land?
Technology in which genetic material in a living cell is modified for medical or industrial use
What is genetic engineering?
Cud-chewing mammals that have three or four chambered stomachs such as cattle, sheep, and goats
What are ruminants?
Which country's national animal is the unicorn?
Scotland!