Place Names
What is the name of the country that has the seed vault?
Norway
What will increase with extreme weather?
Floods and droughts
How long have seed banks opperated?
For decades
How many crops do many farmers grow?
One or two
What does our food supply need to adapt to?
Climate change
What is the town where the seed vault is?
Longyearbyen
When did they start thinking about the seed vault?
After 9/11
What did looters take in Afghanistan?
Plastic containers
How much does the UK give to the seed vault?
$20 million
What is the seed bank bored into?
The middle of a snow-topped mountain
Where are banana samples cryo-preserved?
Leuven, Belgium
What caused wheat prices to reach record highs?
Droughts and new diseases
How far is the seed bank from the North Pole?
1000 kilometers or 600 miles
At what temperature must seeds be stored?
Minus 20 degrees Celsius or 4 Fahrenheit
What are scientists in Belgium scouring the world for?
Banana samples
Which country banked corn?
Mexico
What percentage of corn varieties from the 1930s no longer exist?
94%
Who provides funding to the seed vault?
Governments from the UK, Australia, Germany, and the US
How may banana varieties are cryo-preserved in Leuven?
1200
What fraction of biodiversity in crops has been lost in the last century?
3/4 (Three quarters)
Where were cassava banked?
Nigeria
Where did a typhoon demolish a seed bank wall and destroy many samples?
The Philippines
How much money does Germany provide to the seed vault?
$11 million
Wheat prices are the lowest in how many years?
35
How many new seeds did the database receive last year?
Thousands