Vocab 9
What is obese?
Seriously overweight '
What is subsoil?
Soil beneath the E horizon that accumulates clays.
What are the three major food supplies consumed worldwide?
Rice, wheat and corn.
What are the three different types of erosion?
Sheet erosion, rill erosion and gully erosion.
Sheet erosion is when running water cuts small channels in the soil.
False.
What is food security?
the ability to obtain sufficient food on a daily basis
What is surface soil?
A layer of mixed organic and mineral soil material.
True or false: food security is worse than it would be had the pandemic never happened.
True.
What is water logging?
Soil saturated with water.
True.
What is famine?
Large scale food shortages, massive starvation, social disruption and economic chaos
What is sheet erosion?
A thin layer taken off the land surface.
What are some effects of meat production on the environment?
Deforestation, land and water waste, animal waste, gas emission, pollution and animal cruelty.
How does water logging negatively affect water?
Water logging kills plants from lack of oxygen.
Potatoes, oats and rye are very unimportant and uncommon food supplies.
False.
what is malnourishment?
nutritional imbalance caused by a lack of specific dietary components or an inability to absorb or utilize essential nutrients
What is gully erosion?
When rills enlarge to form bigger channels.
Hunger numbers increased by how much during the pandemic?
122 million.
What are the different types of soil horizons?
Top soil, zone of leaching, subsoil, regolith, bedrock.
Meat contains most of the amino acids our body needs to function well.
True.
What is chronically undernourished?
Receiving less than the minimum 2,200 kal on average.
What is rill erosion?
When running water cuts small channels in the soil.
What is the difference between chronically undernourished and malnourished?
Chronically undernourished is receiving less than the minimum 2,200 kcal on average. Malnourished, on the hand, is a nutritional imbalance caused by a lack of specific dietary components or an inability to absorb or utilize essential nutrients.
What are economic thresholds?
The point at which potential economic damage justifies pest-control expenditures.
Contour plowing is plowing across the hill rather than in up and down levels.
Tru.