Corn and Seeds
Environment
Humane Treatment
Human Health
Boy Scouts
100
This type of corn can grow closer together, but new seed needs to be bought every year.
What is hybrid corn?
100
Plants need this element found in fertilizers and animals.
What is nitrogen?
100
Cows have evolved to eat this.
What is grass.
100
This sweetener is made from corn and can be found in many foods including sodas.
What is high fructose corn syrup?
100
The Boy Scouts were first founded in this country.
What is England?
200
This is money farmers receive from the government for growing corn.
What is a subsidy?
200
Industrial farms use more of this energy than the energy is produces in calories.
What is fossil fuel energy?
200
When cows are fed this, they get sick.
What is corn.
200
This percent of children ages 6-19 in 1971 was this.
What was 5.8%?
200
This is the highest rank you can achieve as a boy scout.
What is Eagle Scout?
300
On an industrial farm, corn is usually rotated with this crop.
What are soybeans?
300
Excess nitrogen absorbed into the air creates this.
What is acid rain?
300
A cow stomach is called this.
What is the rumen?
300
This was the percent of children ages 6-19 in 2003 who were obese.
What was 17.3%?
300
This is the first rank in Boy Scouts.
What is Scout?
400
Agribusinesses are changing the DNA of some types of corn to create these.
What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
400
Nitrogen in the ocean causes this to "bloom."
What is algae?
400
These are added to the feed to prevent the cattle from dying.
What are antibiotics?
400
Since 1977, the average American's intake of calories has increased by this percentage.
What is 10%?
400
You need this many merit badges to get Eagle Scout.
What is 21.
500
This was corn's ancestor from thousands of years ago.
What is teosinte?
500
Algae blooms have this effect on fish.
What is smothering them?
500
When a cow eats grass, this happens to bacteria when they enter a human's stomach.
They die from the acid in our stomachs.
500
The industrial meal can cause these three diseases.
What are obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease?
500
Boy Scouts were founded in this year.
When was 1910.
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