Vector and Water Borne Diseases
An example of a water borne disease
What is cholera?
What are mitigation strategies?
The name for steps taken to reduce the risk or severity of a disease
A food system involves inputs, ________ and outputs.
What is "processes"?
What are factory farms
These farms keep animals in intensive artificial conditions indoors and pump them full of antibiotics and hormones.
the name for the amount of water needed to produce food
What is Water Footprint?
In the case of Malaria, this is the vector
What is a mosquito?
What are "Zoonotic Diseases"?
The name for diseases that started in animals but mutated and were then able to jump to humans
What are inputs?
In a food system, machinery, seeds, and fertilizer would all be examples of this.
According to Jared Diamond, this is the worst mistake made in the history of the human race
What is agriculture?
What is Subsistence Agriculture?
This is the name for farming that involves growing enough food/rearing enough animals to support immediate family only
Name 2 ways to prevent the spread of Malaria
What are: bed nets, insecticide, Drainage Systems, Education, Quality Housing, New Vaccine, Clothing, Wealth?
What is "herd immunity"?
When a proportion of a population becomes immune (either through disease or vaccination), and the disease is not able to trigger new epidemics.
This is an output of a dairy farm
What is money, dairy products (milk, cheese, etc.), animal waste
Commercial farms sell their crops/animals in order to ________
What is make a profit?
What is Gray Water?
This is the name for water that has been previously used and may contain impurities. It comes from washing hands, cleaning vegetables, and industrial operations
Name ways to prevent the spread of cholera
What are: drink safe water, wash hands frequently, prepare food safely, disposes of feces properly
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The name for the type of diffusion where a disease would spread first in a larger city and then to smaller cities.
An Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) that is equal or greater than 1 is considered what...
What is efficient?
What is Glyphosate?
This is the name for the widely used herbicide that has been called a "probably human carcinogen" by the World Health Organization.
The term "biosequestration" involves drawing this down into the soil in order to reduce the amount in the atmosphere
What is Carbon/Carbon Dioxide?
Name the country we learned about that is dealing with cholera
What is Ghana?
What is Distance Decay/Frictional Effect of Distance?
The concept that areas that are closer to the source (of disease) are more likely to be affected by it, whereas areas further away are less likely or will be affected at a later date
This is the equation for calculating Energy Efficiency Ratios
What is Energy Outputs / Energy Inputs?
What kind of farm will be more efficient? Chicken or Corn Farm?
What is Corn Farm
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
This type of agriculture is all about minimizing soil disruptions, maximizing crop diversity, and partnering with nature.