Food and Hunger

10/19

Test over Chapter 7 is due tomorrow.
Case study is due today. 
Change your Freyer Model to reflect the following:

Center is the case study title:
Square One: Summary
Square Two: Claim
Square Three: Evidence from the article (3 examples)
Reasoning: Connect Evidence to claim


Test over Chapter 9- Food and Hunger is due next Wednesday 10/28/2015 

Questions for Cornell Notes and Chapter 7 ppt presentation

1. What nutrients are needed for humans to thrive and survive? 

2. What is malnourishment?

3. What factors can trigger famine?

4. What are the three main grain crops that  humanity depends on worldwide?
 
5. What types of food do people eat to obtain protein? 

6. What is the name and symptoms of a protein deficiency? 

7. What is the name and symptoms of iron deficiency?


8. What are subsidies and how do they influence market price and production?

9. Describe aquaculture, and some of the risks and benefits.
 
10. What are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), and what are the costs and benefits?
 
11. What are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and what is the controversy with GMOs?

DOL Questions

Practice Questions
Multiple Choice:
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the
descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits
each statement. 
Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
 
(A) aquaculture
(B) CAFO
(C) green revolution
(D) Bt plant
(E) GMO
 
1. animals housed and fed corn for rapid growth
2. provides half of the seafood eaten by humans
3. causes environmental problems when manure from feedlots run-off into local
waterways
4. started in the 1950s and 1960s
5. Roundup ready soybeans
 
6. The controversy surrounding Bt plants is
(A) Bt plants have lower levels of nutrients than non Bt plants
(B) Bt plants have a lower productivity than non Bt plants
(C) Bt plants produce a chemical that helps some insects to survive
(D) Bt plants produce a chemical that kills monarch butterflies
(E) Bt plants produce a chemical that kills dandelions
 
7. Anemia is a/an
(A) iron deficiency caused by low hemoglobin
(B) protein deficiency
(C) carbohydrate deficiency
(D) vitamin C deficiency
(E) vitamin D deficiency
 
8. Which of the following organisms must intake the most kilograms of grain to
produce 1 kilogram of weight gain?
(A) pig
(B) chicken
(C) fish
(D) cattle
(E) turkey 

9. All of the following are environmental costs of salmon farms except
(A) decrease in wild fish populations
(B) loss of habitat due to salmon eating grasses surrounding pond
(C) release of antibiotics
(D) spread of diseases
(E) release of feces
 
10. Large scale food shortages, massive starvation, social disruption, and
economic chaos are characteristics of
(A) famines
(B) food security
(C) overeating
(D) malnourishment
(E) kwashiorkor
 

Free-Response Question:
Directions: Answer all parts of the following question. Where explanation or
discussion is required, support your answers with relevant information and/or
specific examples.
 
1. The green revolution occurred during the 1950s and 1960s.
(a) Explain TWO outcomes of the green revolution.
(b) Genetic engineering is at the forefront of modern agriculture.
(i) Define the term GMO.
(ii) Give an example of a GMO and explain the desirable characteristic of
that particular GMO.
(iii) Describe three drawbacks of GMOs.
(c) How might a GMO affect a food chain in an ecosystem?
(d) What might a government do to encourage farmers to grow specific crops?

Chapter 9 quiz  due Friday. Please email this to me.


Daily Work Options this week
Notes & DOL questions Chapter 9
King Corn Activity (Questions at the end)
Chapter 7 quiz
Frayer Model:
     Green Revolution/Locavore Movement

Project Grades
Ishmael Response Project (two project grades...due 10/30)
Hunger lab 



King Corn Activity Questions
1. Why are the life expectancies of the two stars shorter than that of their
parents?
2. What are most of their bodies made out of? How did they figure out their
bodies were mostly made of that substance?
3. Why do they come to the conclusion that their bodies are made of that
substance (from question 2)?
4. In what part of the world was corn first grown?
5. When was high fructose corn syrup first introduced to the market? Why was
this done?
6. What type of fertilizer did they use to grow their corn?
7. Did they get a subsidy from the government to grow their corn? How much
money did they make on their corn crop?