The country that gave the second lowest portion of its wealth to foreign countries as aid.
What is the United States?
100
The use of pesticides, monoculture, fertilizer, herbicides and GMOs are associated with this type of farming.
What is a conventional farm?
100
A medical condition commonly associated with food deserts.
What is obesity?
100
How we know what we should and should not eat.
What is culture?
200
the developed country with the highest percentage of its population in poverty.
What is the United States?
200
The definition of a monoculture.
What is producing a single crop over a large area?
200
The name of Michelle Obama's campaign to eliminate childhood obesity that is also trying to eliminate food deserts.
What is "Let's Move?"
200
The idea that individuals with superior diets will be better fit, survive and produce more offspring.
What is Darwinism?
300
The percentage of people in the U.S. that are hungry (within 5% is acceptable).
What is 10%?
300
The definition of a GMO.
What is an organism that has been given specific traits through genetic engineering?
300
The approximate number of Americans living in a food desert.
What is 25 million (within 5 million is acceptable)?
300
A dietary staple in many South American countries; it contains toxic cyanogens if you do not remove them using traditional methods.
What is cassava?
400
A reason why hungry people do not always receive the food aid we send to that country.
What are governments controlled by a few elites (variations on this answer may be acceptable)?
400
Three negative consequences associated with using antibiotics on our livestock.
What is soil pollution, water pollution, and ingestion of antibiotics?
400
The fraction of supermarkets in low income census tracts compared to high income census tracts. In other words, people in low income areas have _____ as many grocery stores as people in high income areas.
What is one half?
400
The method by which people discovered what to eat.
What is trial and error?
500
The number of pounds of food that we grow per person (but it is not evenly distributed in this way).
What is 4.3 pounds?
500
The purpose of crop rotation.
What is to avoid extracting all nutrients from the soil and allow for nitrogen and/or phosphorus to be replaced (variations of this answer may be acceptable)?
500
The amount the United States spends on treating obesity each year.
What is 150 billion (within 5 billion is acceptable)?
500
The vitamin found in corn that we cannot access unless lime is added to it. Deficiencies in this vitamin lead to pellagra.