The two elements that are used to define a climate zone and contribute to a biome.
Temperature and Precipitation
The process of diverting water from a freshwater system to farmland
What is irrigation?
Gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere including; Carbon Dioxide, methane, and Nitrous Oxide.
What are greenhouse gases?
The term that is defined as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
What is Food Insecurity?
How much of the global soybean yield is genetically modified (GM)
What is 94%?
What is a Climate Graph?
The largest river system in Australia
What is the Murray Darling River Basin?
More droughts, more rainfall, and more severe weather events
What are the effects of global warming?
The term used to describe sufficient quantities of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or imports
What is Food Availability?
Biomes that experience long, cold winters, short summers, and heavy precipitation.
What is a Boreal Forest?
The term is used to describe the overflow of water from one area into a body of water that usually contains pollutants.
What is Runoff?
The amount the global surface temperature has increased since 1880
What is 1.4° Celsius?
The term used to describe the resources an individual may receive for acquiring appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.
What is Food Accessiblity?
The projected maize crop yield decline by 2030 according to NASA
What is 24%?
Biome that dominates Victoria
What are Temperate forests?
What is 2.5%
A recent extreme weather event that destroyed over $5 billion worth of agricultural goods in NSW and VIC?
What is the 2022 Spring Flooding and/or 2020-2023 La Nina?
The term used to describe knowledge and resources to use food appropriately, that without can lead to malnutrition
What is Food Utilization?
Biome with a temperature range of 38°C and -3.9°C
What is a Desert?
Biomes that dominate NSW
What are Grasslands?
What is an algae bloom?
What is desertification?
The ranking system which we use to establish a nation's food security
What is the Global Food Security Index (GFSI)?
Australia Food security index
What is 75.4 or 22nd in the world?