For this food chain, food is grown on small farms that raise lots of different kinds of crops and animals. Foods from these farms are not processed. The food travels short distances, possibly to a farmer’s market, before it reaches our table.
Local Sustainable
100
Who is Angelo Barro?
Michael Pollan's hunter-gatherer tutor.
100
What is a system for growing, making, and delivering food?
Food Chain
100
What is a difficult situation or problem?
Dilemma
100
What is a word that means "unaltered from an original or natural state; not processed?"
Unprocessed
200
This is where most of our food comes from today. This chain starts in a giant field, usually in the Midwest, where a single crop is grown, such as corn or soybeans, and then ends up in a supermarket or fast-food restaurant.
Industrial
200
What does HFCS stand for?
High Fructose Corn Syrup
200
What is a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of?
Trough
200
What is an animal or person that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivore
200
What is an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form?
Organism
300
This is the oldest type of food chain. It’s hardly a chain at all, really. It is made up simply by you finding your own food.
Hunter Gatherer
300
What does CAFO stand for?
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
300
What word means "to be in opposition?"
Conflicting
300
What word is defined as "practices that keep the environment healthy and food production economically and socially viable?
Sustainable
300
What is the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties such as a mule (the offspring of a donkey and a horse).
Hybrid
400
This food is grown on large industrial farms, but with only natural fertilizers, and natural bug and weed control. It is sold in the same way as industrial food.
Industrial Organic
400
What does GMO stand for?
Genetically Modified Organism
400
What are microscopic organisms that often play a role in the decay of living things, the process of fermentation, and sometimes in causing disease?
Bacteria
400
What is a branch of biology that deals with the inherited traits and variation of organisms?
Genetics
400
What is a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market?
Feed Lot
500
What food chain would a local restaurant's prepared organic salad belong to?
Local Sustainable
500
What does Michael Pollan say is the “Omnivore’s Dilemma”?
We can eat anything, but how do we know what to eat?
500
"Author's write for many different reasons. To persuade, to inform, and to entertain, represent the three main forms of an ______"
Author's Purpose
500
What word is defined as "spreading widely and affecting many individuals at one time?"
Epidemic
500
What is the metabolic disease in which the body's inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose in the blood?