The Food Chain
What are the four components of the food chain?
What is
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Producers
Consumers
Decomposers?
Additives may be used in food for this reason.
What is: flavor, improving nutrition, improving shelf life, maintaining texture and helping foods age?
Food Science
What is the study of food and it's preparation.
Genes are removed from one organism and transferred to another one.
What is genetic engineering?
This member of the food chain makes food. Some of this food sustains the plant, but some is stored as energy.
What are producers?
When families live on whatever than can produce.
What is subsistence farming?
Foods made to imitate actual foods.
These are advantages of GMO foods:
What is: a larger food supply, improved nutrition and taste, greater resistance to spoilage, reduced use of pesticides and newer and better varieties of foods.
This member of the food chain eats food and converts it into energy.
What are consumers?
A natural disaster can cripple this type of country's food supply for years.
What is a developing country?
In this type of packaging, a mixture of carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen is inserted into the package before sealing to slow bacterial growth.
What is MAP packaging?
These are disadvantages to GMO foods.
What is: possible health problems, potential threat to the environment and food supply, creation of superweeds and the inability of developing countries to buy the very expensive seed.
This is necessary for a healthy eco system to lessen the risk of a break in the food chain/
What is biodiversity?
Plants are grown without soil.
What is hydroponic farming?
Foods that provide benefits beyond basic nutrition.
What are functional foods?
A genetic copy of an organism.
What is a clone?
An environment that contains a community of organisms.
What is an ecosystem?
A possible solution to global food problems.
What is: increase food supplies (through alternative farming methods), develop new fuel sources and practice sustainable living.
Adding a nutrient not normally found in a food.
What is fortification?
True or False: GMO's are banned in the European Union.
What is true?