Capital cities
Food staples
Challenges to food secruity
Biomes the world
General knowledge
100

The capital of the United States of America

What is Washington D.C?

100

The largest food staple in Australia

What is wheat?

100

The state whereby the human population rises to an extent exceeding the carrying capacity

What is overpopulation?

100

The largest biome in Australia

What are deserts?

100

A peanut based paste used as a treatment for emergency malnutrition cases. It supports rapid weight gain and has been an effective tool with food shortages in Africa.

What is Plumpy'nut

200

The capital of New Zealand

What is Wellington?

200

The largest food staple in Central America

What is maize?

200

The percentage of food we buy that is thrown out

What is 20 per cent?

200

This biome is dominated by grass and may have small, widely spaced trees or no trees

What are grasslands?

200

The clearing of forests to make way for housing or agricultural development

What is deforestation?

300

The capital of Canada

What is Ottawa?

300

The largesr food staple in China

What is rice?

300

The food secruity challenge that includes chemicals going into the soil and water, and the introduction of new materials into natural biomes

What is pollution?

300

A biome that is characterised by cold climates and the absence of trees but have no grasses, dwarf shrubs and mosses

What is the tundra?

300

The dominant direction a wind blows from

What are prevailing winds?
400

The capital of Portugal

What is Lisbon?

400

The country which is the largest producer of maize in the world

What is the Unites States of America?

400

When a government or big company takes land from small farmers without their permission, and without adequate compensation.

What is landgrabbing?

400

The term that refers to the variety of living organisms with an area

What is biodiversity?

400

A group of people who have no fixed home and move from place to place according to the place

What are nomadic people?
500
The capital of Switzerland

What is Bern?

500

The percentage of fish caught used for human consumption

What is 75 per cent?

500

Refers to a situation where the quality and quantity of soil in an area is declining, making it harder to produce crops.

What is land degradation?

500

The native term for an North America grassland

What is a prairie?

500

The supply of water by artifical means to agricultural areas

What is irrigation?