3.2 Food Production Revision Quiz

Which describe an arable farm?

• A farm that produced animals and plant produce

• A farm that only produces plants

• A farm the only farms animals

Multiple answers - select true statements about what healthy soil needs

• The right level of nitrogen

• the right level of phosphorous

• broken up pieces of parent material, usually from the bed rock below

• water

• decomposers

Which farming system might use the following processes - Calving - Milking - Slaughtering - Herding - Feeding - Rearing - Breeding

• Pastoral

• Arable

Which of the following would best describe rearing a very large about of chickens, in a small space, for profit?

• Extensive organic farming

• intensive subsistence farming

• Commercial arable farming

• Intensive commercial farming

Multiple answer - which of the following factors would encourage extensive arable farms or mixed farms

• Large scale irrigation

• A temperate climate zone with some seasonal variation

• Hills or mountainous terrain

• Alluvium deposits on floodplains

Multiple answers - which of the following are causes for less developed countries to rely on cash crops?

• The country might encourage it to help pay of debt

• The most developed countries are willing to pay a lot for the crop

• They can use their natural soil and climate

• They consume a lot of the cash crop themselves

Multiple answers - Why do farmers in Bangladesh grow rice in rice paddies?

• They prevent soil erosion due to an intense rainy season

• The are culturally against using big machines

• They can control the rate of water flowing, creating an irrigation method

• Hold a lot of water for water intensive crop growth

Multiple answers - Which of the following are negative impact of cattle ranching in the Amazon?

• Exporting meat other countries

• Soil erosion

• Deforestation to make room for grazing land

• Compacts the soil

Multiple answers - which of the following is considered a physical cause of food shortages

• Lithosphere hazards – earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides

• Poor agriculture practices – soil exhaustion

• Atmospheric hazards – drought, floods

• Growing population

Multiple answers - which of the following are impacts of food shortages?

• Less school attendance and a reduction in education levels

• Malnutrition

• Increases agricultural exports

• clinical syndromes such as Kwashiorkor, Marasmus, and Anemia