Lesson 3.4.1

3.4.1 What is food security and why is it of global significance? Quiz: OCR Geography, Unit 8

20 questions

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Lesson 3.4.1, What is food security and why is it of global significance?: 20 multiple choice questions for the OCR Geography (H481), Unit 8: Future of Food, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which pillar of food security ensures that sufficient quantities of food are consistently present?

    • Food availability
    • Food use
    • Food stability
    • Food access

  2. Which pillar of food security focuses on having sufficient economic and physical resources to acquire food?

    • Food access
    • Food use
    • Food production
    • Food availability

  3. Which pillar of food security relates to how the body converts nutrients from consumed food effectively?

    • Food transport
    • Food access
    • Food availability
    • Food use

  4. Which index measures global food security across affordability, availability, quality, and safety indicators?

    • Multidimensional Poverty Index
    • Global Food Security Index
    • Human Development Index
    • Global Hunger Index

  5. Which type of farming focuses primarily on producing enough food to feed the farmer and family?

    • Industrial farming
    • Intensive farming
    • Commercial farming
    • Subsistence farming

  6. What name is given to agricultural systems aimed at producing food specifically for economic profit?

    • Organic farming
    • Shifting cultivation
    • Commercial farming
    • Subsistence farming

  7. Which agricultural approach applies high capital and labour inputs to small areas of land?

    • Extensive farming
    • Intensive farming
    • Subsistence farming
    • Nomadic pastoralism

  8. Which agricultural system involves low capital and labour inputs spread across very large land areas?

    • Intensive farming
    • Commercial horticulture
    • Vertical farming
    • Extensive farming

  9. What term measures the distance food travels from its place of growth to the ultimate consumer?

    • Food miles
    • Trade pathway
    • Virtual water
    • Carbon footprint

  10. Which global issue arises when powerful corporate actors dominate contracts with vulnerable small-scale farmers?

    • Short-term relief
    • Power inequality
    • Dietary convergence
    • Precision farming

  11. Which health condition has increased globally due to the widespread availability of cheap energy-dense foods?

    • Scurvy
    • Obesity
    • Kwashiorkor
    • Undernourishment

  12. What primary benefit allows consumers in developed nations to buy out-of-season produce all year round?

    • Export tariff
    • Consumer choice
    • Subsidised growth
    • Food security

  13. What fast-response mechanism helps prevent famine during sudden localised crop failures in vulnerable regions?

    • Land grabbing
    • Long-term aid
    • Structural adjustment
    • Short-term food relief

  14. Which component of the global food system transforms raw agricultural crops into marketable consumer products?

    • Waste disposal
    • Food processing
    • Agricultural yield
    • Food distribution

  15. Which key physical factor determines the thermal conditions and precipitation patterns necessary for crop growth?

    • Latitude
    • Topography
    • Climate
    • Geology

  16. Which physical factor provides crops with essential anchorage, nutrients, and moisture retention capacity?

    • Bedrock
    • Wind direction
    • Soil
    • Solar radiation

  17. A sudden rise in global grain prices causing widespread social unrest is known as what?

    • Price crisis
    • Yield gap
    • Trade embargo
    • Food surge

  18. When food supply varies widely between rich urban areas and poor rural regions, what exists?

    • Spatial variation
    • Absolute abundance
    • Global uniformity
    • Dietary parity

  19. What term describes the shift toward standardised global eating habits driven by Western fast-food chains?

    • Local foodways
    • Cultural isolation
    • Subsidised diets
    • Global tastes

  20. What final stage of the food system involves managing unconsumed food and agricultural packaging?

    • Food logistics
    • Waste disposal
    • Retail sales
    • Crop harvesting

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