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$200 Question from Green Revolution

Which agricultural revolution resulted in the development of high-yield grains?

$200 Answer from Green Revolution

Third Agricultural Revolution

$400 Question from Green Revolution

What is another name for the Third Agricultural Revolution?

$400 Answer from Green Revolution

The Green Revolution

$600 Question from Green Revolution

By 1992, what was the most widely grown crop variety on earth, that was a product of the Green Revolution, called IR36?

$600 Answer from Green Revolution

RICE

$800 Question from Green Revolution

Grain grown in the United States is commonly used for what?

$800 Answer from Green Revolution

Livestock feed

$1000 Question from Green Revolution

What is the goal of the Green Revolution?

$1000 Answer from Green Revolution

To genetically engineer plants to produce higher crop yields; to reduce world hunger

$200 Question from Biotechnology

What does bio-technology involve?

$200 Answer from Biotechnology

Genetic manipulation of plants and animals

$400 Question from Biotechnology

Define organic.

$400 Answer from Biotechnology

Food that is grown without the aid of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones etc.

$600 Question from Biotechnology

What does GMO stand for?

$600 Answer from Biotechnology

Genetically Modified Organism

$800 Question from Biotechnology

Organic food sales make up how much of all food sales?

$800 Answer from Biotechnology

2.5 % of all food sales is in organic

$1000 Question from Biotechnology

Are there any laws/restrictions on genetically modified goods? Can you tell if a product is a GMO by looking at it? Who monitors these goods?

$1000 Answer from Biotechnology

No laws or restrictions yet No, because they are not required to use labels FDA, EPA, USDA monitor them

$200 Question from Economic Activities

Farming is an example of what level of economic activity?

$200 Answer from Economic Activities

Primary

$400 Question from Economic Activities

A mailmans job would be classified in what level of economic activity?

$400 Answer from Economic Activities

Tertiary

$600 Question from Economic Activities

All of the following are indicative of what level of economic activity: pottery, houses, machinery?

$600 Answer from Economic Activities

Secondary

$800 Question from Economic Activities

A researcher is classified as being in what level of economic activity?

$800 Answer from Economic Activities

Quinary

$1000 Question from Economic Activities

Information or the exchange of money or goods is classified as what level of economic activity?

$1000 Answer from Economic Activities

Quaternary

$200 Question from Definitions

What is an invasive species?

$200 Answer from Definitions

Species of plant, animal or other organism introduced to a non native ecosystem, where it became harmful to the natural environment or to human health.

$400 Question from Definitions

Define commercial agriculture.

$400 Answer from Definitions

Producing goods on a high yield basis in order to sell them for profit

$600 Question from Definitions

Define debt-for nature swap.

$600 Answer from Definitions

When creditors agree to forgive debts in return for the promise of environmental protection (ex: Rainforests)

$800 Question from Definitions

Define subsistence agriculture.

$800 Answer from Definitions

The raising of just enough food to feed your family with no surplus.

$1000 Question from Definitions

Define agribusiness.

$1000 Answer from Definitions

Industrialized, corporate form of agriculture organized into integrated networks of agricultural inputs and outputs controlled by a small number of large corporations

$200 Question from Potpourri

What does LDC and MDC stand for?

$200 Answer from Potpourri

Less developed country More developed country

$400 Question from Potpourri

In North America, what frequently consumed item is most likely to be supplied by a trans-national corporation?

$400 Answer from Potpourri

Coffee

$600 Question from Potpourri

The northern portion of the U.S. is geared towards what particular type of agriculture production?

$600 Answer from Potpourri

Dairying

$800 Question from Potpourri

Where was corn or maize first domesticated?

$800 Answer from Potpourri

Central Mexico

$1000 Question from Potpourri

What was the tragedy of the commons?

$1000 Answer from Potpourri

The tragedy of the commons is a class of social trap that involves a conflict over resources between individual interests and the common good.

Final Jeopardy
A. List the four economic zones that von Thnen identified in his 18th c. model. B. Discuss two factors that explain why agricultural land-use patterns today differ from those developed by Von Thnens model in 1826.

Final Jeopardy Answer

A. Center is Town 1. Dairy/perishable goods 2. Forest 3. Grains and other less perishable crops 4. Livestock, ranching B. Refrigeration and Transportation is limitless