Food Production Quiz
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1. Which is a biological factor affecting food security?
- A. Increasing human population
- B. Falling oil prices
- C. Improved internet access
- D. Currency exchange rates
2. Why does rising meat/fish consumption reduce food security?
- A. Meat has no nutrition
- B. Animal farming is less efficient and overfishing depletes stocks
- C. Meat/fish can't be transported far
- D. Livestock need no land/water
3. How does human-caused environmental change affect food security?
- A. No effect on agriculture
- B. Only affects coastal countries
- C. Can alter rainfall/temperature, making regions unsuitable for established crops
- D. Automatically increases farmland
4. Country converts farmland to biofuel crops. Likely impact on food security?
- A. Improves as biofuel crops also produce food
- B. Decreases as less land is available for food crops
- C. No impact, biofuel needs no land
- D. Improves by reducing population growth
5. Rising fertiliser/pesticide costs AND a new maize pathogen occur together. Combined impact?
- A. Only the pathogen matters
- B. Both reduce food supply and raise prices, compounding the threat
- C. Rising costs cancel out the pathogen
- D. Neither affects food security