AESC 2050 Kiepper UGA Final Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
The CDC estimates that how many people get sick, are hospitalized, or die each year from food
born illnesses? - answer✔1 in 6 get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die
Jack N the Box E Coli outbreak... - answer✔hundreds of people were infected, 4 children died,
and many left with permanent injuries. Pathogen was traced to uncooked hamburgers
What was E coli considered after the Jack N the Box outbreak? - answer✔an adulterate
What is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)? - answer✔is the public health agency in
the US Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring the nation's supply of meat, poultry,
and egg products regulated by FSIS
Culture is made up of... - answer✔rituals and language, customs and beliefs, clothing and food,
thoughts and values
The human population of the earth recently passed.... - answer✔7 billion people mark
T/F: Agriculture only concerns the production of food - answer✔False
The average % of annual income spent on food in the US is - answer✔less than 10%
which of the following new human cultural concepts did not emerge with the growth of early
agricultural practices? - answer✔Increased status of women
T/F: Domestication is NOT the same thing as taming - answer✔True
The MOST devastating item brought by the Europeans to the new world was... - answer✔disease
Over half of the American diet of vegetables is made up of... - answer✔Potatoes and Tomatoes
Why were Red Jungle Fowl first domesticated in Southeast Asia? - answer✔Cockfighting
The Mayan culture in central America believed that the gods mixed their blood with_________
to create humankind? - answer✔Corn Flour
In the US today, approximately how many acres does it take to feed one person? - answer✔1
acre
Globally over the last decade, farmland acreage has decreased in... - answer✔Canada, Australia,
the US, and Russia
In recent years, how many US states lost agricultural land? - answer✔50 (all of them)
The majority of farmland lost in the US in the last 50 years is in which region of the US? -
answer✔East Coast (Maine to Florida)
What portion of every dollar spent at the grocery store for key food items like milk, eggs, and
meat goes to the farmer? - answer✔Approximately 15 cents
The US energy policy acts of 2005 and 2007 weighed in significantly in the "Food vs Fuel"
debate by: - answer✔requiring the use of a specific amount of renewable fuel by specific time
frames
The "Food vs Fuel" debate in the US is focused the use of ______ to make __________... -
answer✔Corn to make Ethanol
T/F: In general, Right to Farm laws allow local governments from passing stricter laws on
agriculture than the laws of the state - answer✔False
Many Right to Farm statutes focus on limiting_________ law suits from farm neighbors -
answer✔nuisance
Right to Farm statutes generally favor farmers in cases where... - answer✔the plaintiff (the
person suing) moved into an established agricultural zone, farmer is engaging in generally
accepted agricultural practices, the plaintiff moves in next to a farm that was already there
NAFTA is a trade agreement between... - answer✔US, Mexico, and Canada
What are Tariffs? - answer✔taxes on imported goods and services
What are Quotas? - answer✔limits on the amounts of goods imported
What is a Trade Deficit? - answer✔amount by which the cost of a country's imports exceeds the
value of its exports
What is Market Access? - answer✔openness of a country's market to foreign goods and services
What is an Embargo? - answer✔government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships
in and out of its ports
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