(Reading Explorer 4) U3 Food and Health Quiz

Around how many children in the developing world die each year from eating contaminated food?

• 0.5 million

• 5 million

•  500 million

Who would be most likely to use PulseNet?

• a chicken farmer

• a disease investigator

• a biotech food company

What is salmonella?

• a type of flu virus

• a type of bacteria

• a type of biotech food

In the phrase GE crops, what does GE stand for?

• Grown Economically

• Greatly Enlarged

• Genetically Engineered

Around 250 million children worldwide suffer from a deficiency of which vitamin?

• vitamin A

• vitamin B

• vitamin C

What is "Golden rice"?

• a biotech food

• another name for "corn"

• high-priced rice

The contamination of which kind of fruit led to an outbreak of food poisoning in Brazil in 1999?

• melons

• mangoes

• bananas

What is true about all chickens farmed in Sweden?

• They are salmonella-free.

• They are GE chickens.

• They are extremely large.

In the mid-1990s, some GE soybeans caused allergic reactions because they ...

• contained salmonella

• were not washed properly

• were modified using nut genes

The genes of which animal have been inserted into apple trees to add disease resistance?

• rats

• mosquitoes

• moths