Lesson Y9-U06-L02

Y9-U06-L02 Food Security: Can We Feed Everyone? Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 18

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U06-L02, Food Security: Can We Feed Everyone?: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 18: Year 9: Contested Worlds: Resources, Conflict and Geopolitics, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does food security mean?

    • When all people can reliably get enough safe, healthy food at all times
    • When a farmer has enough savings to buy a new tractor
    • When a country has enough farmland to produce a large surplus
    • When a country sells all of its food abroad for profit

  2. What is the difference between food insecurity and famine?

    • Insecurity is unreliable access to food; famine is an extreme, widespread shortage
    • They mean exactly the same thing and are used interchangeably
    • Insecurity is a sudden shortage; famine is a long-term healthy diet
    • Insecurity happens only in rich countries; famine only in poor ones

  3. What is malnutrition?

    • A law that stops farmers from growing crops in dry land
    • Poor health caused by not eating enough, or the wrong nutrients
    • A type of tool used to measure the weight of harvested grain in a farm store
    • A disease caused only by eating too much fast food each day

  4. What are food miles?

    • The distance food travels from where it is grown to where it is eaten
    • The distance between two countries that trade food with each other each year
    • The number of miles a farmer walks to check their crops
    • The total length of all the roads used to sell food

  5. Which two world regions have the highest food insecurity?

    • Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
    • Australia and Eastern Europe
    • The Arctic and the Pacific islands
    • North America and Western Europe

  6. Which country in the undernourishment chart has the highest share of undernourished people?

    • Yemen, at about 34 percent, which is the second-highest share in the chart
    • India, at about 16 percent
    • DR Congo, at about 38 percent
    • UK, at about 2 percent

  7. DR Congo is about 38 percent undernourished and the UK about 2 percent. Roughly how many times higher is DR Congo's share?

    • About 4 times higher
    • About 19 times higher
    • About 36 times higher
    • About 9 times higher

  8. Why does hunger continue even though the world grows a food surplus?

    • Food is shared unevenly, and poverty stops many people affording it
    • People choose to eat less food as a deliberate matter of habit and taste
    • All food is sent abroad and none stays in the country grown
    • The world stopped growing food entirely in the last ten years

  9. Name one reason food is wasted in rich countries.

    • Food is grown only for animals and never for people
    • Food is planted too densely in the fields each year
    • Food is kept in cold stores for too long before harvest
    • Food is thrown away before or after it is eaten

  10. Which pressure can push a region from food security into food insecurity?

    • A new road that makes it easier to reach a market
    • A fall in the number of tourists visiting the area
    • A rise in the number of schools built in the region
    • Conflict that destroys farms and blocks food aid and trade

  11. Why can conflict cause hunger even where food is grown nearby?

    • Fighting makes all the nearby crops grow more slowly than before, so less food is grown each year
    • Fighting blocks roads, aid and trade, so food cannot reach the people who need it
    • Fighting stops farmers from ever harvesting any crop at all
    • Fighting means the local people stop eating food in protest

  12. Which climate pressure can push food insecurity higher?

    • A steady supply of rain in every season of the year
    • Longer and warmer summers that always raise crop yields
    • More droughts, floods and failed harvests
    • Cooler winters that allow farmers to grow two crops

  13. Why might official hunger figures be too low in a war zone?

    • Surveyors are always paid too much money to count people accurately
    • Hunger figures are only ever produced by the army in charge
    • Hunger figures are normally counted by computers in another country
    • Surveyors cannot safely reach the worst-hit areas, so need is undercounted

  14. A UK family relies on a food bank because it cannot reliably afford enough food. How would this be described?

    • Food insecure, because access to enough food is not reliable
    • Famine, because the family has no money at all
    • Food secure, because the UK grows a large food surplus
    • Food secure, because food banks always supply enough food for every family

  15. A farmer has a full store of grain and savings to buy more food. Which description fits?

    • Famine, because the farmer does not eat enough of the grain
    • Food insecure, because the farmer produces food for sale
    • Malnourished, because the farmer grows only one crop each year and eats very little of it
    • Food secure, because food is available, affordable and reliable

  16. Which two world regions have the lowest food insecurity?

    • Central Africa and the Sahel
    • Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
    • North America and Europe
    • Yemen and DR Congo

  17. Which country in the undernourishment chart is closest to the UK's share?

    • Brazil, at about 5 percent
    • India, at about 16 percent
    • Yemen, at about 34 percent
    • DR Congo, at about 38 percent

  18. Why is hunger mainly about access rather than supply?

    • Enough food is produced, but people have no way of cooking it
    • Enough food is never produced, because farmland has run out everywhere
    • Enough food is produced, but farmers refuse to sell it to anyone
    • Enough food is produced, but poverty and distribution keep it from many people

  19. Evaluate in one sentence: which cause of food insecurity is hardest to solve?

    • Conflict, because it blocks aid and farming at the same time
    • Waste, because it is the only cause that is easy to measure
    • Food miles, because they make all food taste worse than before
    • Climate change, because it always makes harvests bigger in every region

  20. Which is the best example of food insecurity rather than famine?

    • A family that skips meals because it cannot reliably afford enough food
    • A country that produces a large surplus of grain each harvest
    • A village where crops fail completely for a full decade
    • A region where a whole population has run out of any food at all

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