AESC 2050 TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the main reason for the change in demand for canned foods in the US?
a. demand has not changed
b. price increase for canned foods
c. price decrease for canned foods
d. increase demand for fresh foods
e. increase demand for further processe...
AESC 2050 TEST QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What is the main reason for the change in demand for canned foods in the US?
a. demand has not changed
b. price increase for canned foods
c. price decrease for canned foods
d. increase demand for fresh foods
e. increase demand for further processed foods - Answer ✔ d. increase demand for
fresh foods
A video shown during the Food Fads lecture showed the power of ____ in the foods we
eat.
a. color
b. size
c. shape
d. taste
e. texture - Answer ✔ a. color
(T/F) "Food Inc" uses negative imagery to put commercial agriculture in a "bad light." -
Answer ✔ TRUE
"Food Inc" blames ____ with creating the negative impacts of the fast food culture in the
United States.
a. Krystal's
b. Burger King
c. Chick-fil-a
d. McDonald's
e. Wendy's - Answer ✔ d. McDonald's
(T/F) We are more removed today from the production of our food than ever before. -
Answer ✔ TRUE
"Food Inc" touts that the meat aisle in modern grocery stores contains NO_______.
a. anti-biotics
b. bones
c. gluten
d. GMOs
e. hormones - Answer ✔ b. bones
"Food Inc" features Polyface Farms, whose owner condems modern agriculture, but still
uses:
a. a tractor
, b. a mechanical hay baler
c. a 4- wheeler
d. fossil fuels
e. all of the above - Answer ✔ e. all of the above
When did the DUST BOWl occur in the US?
a. 1920- 1930
b. 1930-1940
c. 1940-1950
d. 1950-1960
e. 1960-1970 - Answer ✔ b. 1930-1940
The NATURAL disaster that was a major factor in causing the DUST BOWL was:
a. drought
b. flooding
c. depression
d. tornadoes
e. no crop rotation - Answer ✔ a. drought
The ECONOMIC disaster that was a major factor in causing the DUST BOWL was:
a. The Great Recession
b. The Great Depression
c. World War I
d. World War II
e. Prohibition - Answer ✔ b. The Great Depression
Which US President signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law?
a. John F Kennedy
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. Richard Nixon
d. Gerald Ford
e. Jimmy Carter - Answer ✔ c. Richard Nixon
Cultural eutrophication occurs mainly when these two nutrients runoff into surface
waters:
a. Aluminum and Carbon
b. Chromium and Carbon
c. Nitrogen and Carbon
d. Nitrogen and Phosphorus
e. Carbon and Phosphorus - Answer ✔ d. Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Agriculture gets much of the balme for nutrient runoff into surface waters, but _____ is/
are a major contributing factor also.
a. commercial landscape companies
b. effluent from wastewater treatment plants
c. acid rain
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