AESC 2050 All Answers Correct
Definitions and General Knowledge - Define Culture:
️ Beliefs, customs, rituals, languages, clothing, food, thoughts, values of a specific group of people. - The human population of the earth recently passed __________ mark:
️ 7 billion. - Does agricultur...
✔️ Beliefs, customs, rituals, languages, clothing, food, thoughts, values of a specific group of people.
- The human population of the earth recently passed __________ mark:
✔️ 7 billion.
- Does agriculture only concern the production of food?
✔️ No, it concerns more than just food.
- What is the average annual % of income spent on food in the US?
✔️ Less than 10%.
- Which new human cultural concept did not emerge with the growth of early agricultural practices?
✔️ The increased status of women.
- Is domestication the same thing as taming?
✔️ No, they are two totally different things.
- What was the most devastating thing brought into the New World by the Europeans?
✔️ Disease.
- Over half of the average American diet of vegetables is made up of what two things?
✔️ Potatoes and tomatoes.
, Domestication and Agricultural Practices
- Why were Red Jungle Fowl (ancestors to modern chicken) first domesticated in SE Asia?
✔️ Cockfighting.
- The Mayan culture in Central America believed that the gods mixed _______ with their blood to create
humankind:
✔️ Corn flour.
- In the US today, how many acres does it take to feed one person?
✔️ One acre.
- Globally over the last decade, farmland acreage has decreased in __________?
✔️ Canada, Australia, U.S., and Russia.
- In recent years, how many US states lost agricultural land?
✔️ 50 (all of them).
- The majority of farmland lost in the US in the last 50 years is in which region of the US?
✔️ East Coast (Maine through Florida).
- What portion of every dollar spent at the grocery store for key food items like milk, eggs, and meat
goes to the farmer?
✔️ ~15 cents.
Energy Policies and Trade Agreements
- The US Energy Policy Acts of 2005 and 2007 weighed in significantly in the "Food vs. Fuel" debate by:
✔️ Requiring the use of specific amounts of renewable fuel by specific time frames.
- The "Food vs. Fuel" debate in the US is focused on the use of ______ to make _______.
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