Words related to Food
How do we grow food?
agriculture
farming
The amount of money that you pay for food
cost
price
Knowing which food you can and cannot eat. This is normally provided by the FAO.
food safety
We call this land that is able to be ploughed or farmed.
arable land
agrochemical
agriculture
chemistry
This means to chew food.
mastication
What do you think 'conservative estimate' means?
When you are cautious or guess a lower amount.
What do we call when your body is asking for food? You are experiencing ___; or you are ____?
Hungry
Hunger
These provide habitats for wildlife such as mammals and some birds.
hedgerows
biotechnology
biology
technology
Farming without pesticides or chemical fertilisers
organic farming
An amount/price
figure
Doctors describe this as the number to indicate how much food you are eating.
calories
What is 'mechanisation'?
This is the process whereby farmers use machines (usually to harvest crops to retrieve faster yields).
Biogeography
biology
geography
When you farm a lot with pesticides and fertilisers to sell crops in the market.
intensive farming
the total added (numbers, money)
calculated
In the text, this costs £607 million.
cattle disease
This describes how much food the soil can grow.
soil fertility
This means to produce and study organisms in cold environments
cryogenics
The word that describes the amount of food/crops collected.
Yield(s)
shocking or astonishing (amounts)
staggering (sums)
In the text, this describes the food that can be grown more sustainably.
Greener Food Standard
What does soil 'enervation' mean? What do you think?
Geoarchaeology
geology or geography
archaeology