Pest Control
Food and Genetic Engineering
Feeding People of the World
Key Terms
Multiple Choice
100
A substance that kills pests.
What is a pesticide?
100
The alter of genes or inserting new genes into organism's cells.
What is genetic engineering?
100
Carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids.
What are the three main types of organic molecules in all food?
100
A pesticide used in the 1940’s to kill mosquitoes that cause malaria and the lice that spread typhus, which saved millions of lives.
What is DDT?
100
a) subsoil b) the zone of leaching c) rock particles d) bedrock
The solid rock layer below the soil is called...
200
One third of the overall harvest.
How much potential food harvest, worldwide, do pests destroy?
200
A tomato, in 1994.
What was the first whole food to be genetically engineered?
200
As a source of energy.
What does the human body use food for?
200
A mixture of decomposing organic matter, such as manure and rotting plants that is used as fertilizer and soil conditioner.
What is compost?
200
a) pathogens b) chlorinated hydrocarbons c) Bt or bacillus thuringensis d) pheromones
What is NOT an example of biological pest control?
300
13%
What percent of crops are destroyed by insects and other pests?
300
Flavr Savr.
What is the name of this tomato?
300
They are fats and oils.
What is a lipid?
300
Malnutrition is a disorder of nutrition that results when a person does not consume enough of each of the nutrients that are needs by the human body.
What defines the term malnutrition?
300
a) malnutrition b) drought c) desertification d) resistance
Consuming insufficient nutrients results in which condition...
400
Some examples of pests are wasps, caterpillars, fungus, rats, weeds, or hornworms.
What are some specific examples of pests?
400
They last longer, add nutrients, and create more successsful crops.
What are three benefits of genetically engineered products?
400
Butter, margarine, vegetable oils or animal fats.
What are two examples of lipids?
400
Subsistence farmers are those who grow only enough food to feed their family.
What are subsistence farmers?
400
a) contour plowing b) farming with organic methods c) irrigation d) no-till farming
Which is NOT a method of preventing soil degradation...
500
A pest is any organism that occurs where you don’t want it or in large enough numbers to cause damage.
What is a pest?
500
They go against some religions, plant species may be introduced to the wild, they affect allergies.
What are three drawbacks to producing genetically engineered products?
500
Because the world's population is increasing rapidly and more food is needed each year.
Why do people starve?
500
Desertification is the process by which human activities or climatic changes make arid or semiarid areas more desert like.
What is desertification?
500
a) a method og ridding the soil of harmful pests b) the accumulation of salt in the soil c) destroys the soil forever d) a byproduct of desertifcation
What is salanization?
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