Social factors
A social factor is
Student response: How food security is impacted by humans and vice versa
What is supply?
How much food or product there is available for people
What is an technological factor?
Provide 3 examples of environmental factors that can impact food security.
Drought, floods, fires, storms like cyclones.
Student response:
Sandy, no water and trees. Hard to grow things.
This causes people or forces them to leave their homes
Land degredation
What is demand?
How much people are willling to pay or how much they want that product or food.
What does a greenhouse do and why might farmers use them?
Farmers use them because they protect plants from the weather and pests.
What is water scarcity and how can this impact crops.
Water scarcity means there is less or no water. This means crops cant grow and we have less food.
Food security is when?
There is enough good food for people to eat.
This can cause lots of fighting and conflict
Water scarcity and food scarcity
a low supply + high demand or a high supply + high demand will do what to the price.
What is irrigation and how has it changed over time.
Irrigation gets water to your field. Use to have buckets but now have sprinkler systems.
What is land degredation?
Wind and water erosion strips away the soil. Then salinity increases and soil loses nutrients.
Two things you would do to solve the hunger crisis
Student response.
More population + lagging food production = rising prices. These rising prices mean...
Famine, undernutrition and/or conflict
A low supply + low demand or high supply + low demand will do what to the price
Decrease the price
What are synthetic fertilisers and granular fertilisers. What do they do and what is the difference?
Synthetic are not natural and granular fertilisers can be time released. They increase crop yields and are less toxic.
What is climate change in 10 words or less?
Green-house gases trap heat on earth impacting weather.
There are three types of forests they were?
Tropical
Temperate and
Boreal
Which area in the world are most impacted by food insecurity (lack of food) and why do you think this might be?
Africa and rest student response.
Due to colonialism and loss of traditional ways of farming and food production. Also due to less rain and arid land.
List the 6 steps of the food supply chain.
1. Natural resource
2. Food production
3. Food processing or packaging
4. Food transportation
5. Distribution
6. Consumption
Explain the controversy behind GMOS and what they are
GMOS are plants whose DNA has been altered for a certain reason. People are skeptical because of the altering of dna. They think it could be bad.
What are the impacts of climate change on farms and food security.
Means more storms like cyclones.
Heavy rains.
Sea level rise.
More air pollution.
Do a crazy dance for these points.
Student must do a crazy dance to get the points.