8.6 Mid-Unit Review Food Insecurity and Human Activity

What continent has the highest percentage of people that are food insecure?

• Asia

• North America

• South America

• Europe

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Put the U.S. racial groups in order from most food secure to least food secure.

• Latino

• Black

• White

• Native American

​ (a)   % of the global population is undernourished. ​ (b)   % of the global population is severely food insecure.

• 9
• 11
• 22
• 2

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What factors contribute to high or increasing rates of food insecurity? Name at least 3.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

How many years ago did the practice of agriculture begin? Write your answer in numeric format, including the appropriate comma (e.g. 10,000 or 45,000).

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

There are approximately 7 billion people in the world. What fraction of those people rely on subsistence agriculture? (I know there are 8+, but this test is written this way).

• 1/7

• 1/4

• 2/7

• 3/7

• 1/2

What lifestyle did people lead before agriculture?

• Nomadic

• Subsistence

• Plantation

• Sedentary

Match the agriculture type to its definition.

• Plantation -

• Growing of crops and rearing of animals, or growing mixed crops

• Shifting cultivation -

• High profit, tropical, tree-based crops

• Polyculture -

• Slash and burn, abandon land and clear new land

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What two words best describe the direction of agriculture over time, and how it primarily functions today?

• Commercial

• Monoculture

• Permaculture

• Polyculture

• Family farm

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following are not considered livestock? Select all that apply.

• Goats

• Cattle

• Sheep

• Turkeys

• Chickens