Rising incomes in china create a demand for crops grown in brazil
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All of the following statements about the cerrado region of South America are true except?
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Although there is a surplus of food, millions of people don't have enough to eat
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What is the status of world food production and consumption?
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Wind and Water
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Which of the following are 2 main agents that cause immediate soil erosion?
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New crop varieties; use of fertilizers and pesticides
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In the US, the most recent increases in agricultural productivity have come from:
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Organic farmer gets a good income because of lower chemical costs and higher consumer demand
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Which of the following best describes sustainable farming?
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Low
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Which is better having soil high or low permeability?
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Loam
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What is the best soil?
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Disagree: microbes are destroyed by heat during the composing of the organic materials
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Some say organic fertilizer causes foodborne diseases. Agree or disagree?
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tax food to reclaim damaged goods
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(Exam Q) Sustainable Agriculture
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Excessive fertilization
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What is the cause of baby blue syndrome?
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All the above
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Which of the following statements about pesticides are true?
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they're the only effective way to control pests
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All statements about pesticides are true except:
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about 70 percent
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What percent of conventionally grown food contains pesticide residues?
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describes the need to use higher doses of pesticides
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The pesticide treadmill______
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False
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Integrated pest management means no chemicals may be used. True or False?
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Fat tissue
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Where does DDT go in your body?
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Yes, initially
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Is chemical control of insects, rodents, and weeds effective?
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Only after there is convincing evidence that is causing harm
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When is a pesticide banned in the U.S.?
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An integrated system of pest management that may use SOME sythetic organic pesticides
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What is IPM?
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pollination
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Honey Bees are most valuable for?
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20 percent
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How much would crop yield decrease without pesticides?
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All the above
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Pesticide Environmental risk is based on what?
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True
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Pesticides is bioaccumulation. True or False?
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ALl the above
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To use IPM?
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Botulism
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Which bacteria produces a deadly toxin?
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Listeria
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Which bacteria presents a special risk of spontaneous abortion in pregnant women?
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Norovirus
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Which is the most common food infection in the US?
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3000 or more
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It is estimated that foodbourne disease kills people in the US each year
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Soil texture affects water holding capacity by being sponge-like.
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How does soil texture affect water holding capacity?
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Over cultivation, overgrazing, deforestation
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What are the root causes of erosion?
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Crop rotations, no till agriculture, organic fertilizer, control planting, wind breaks and strip cropping
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How do you prevent erosion?
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build up of salts in soil, eventually too toxic for plants
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What is salinization and what causes it?
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saturation of soil with water
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What is water-logging?
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Causes babies to have signs of blue tint, nitrate in drinking water
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What is Blue Baby Syndrome?
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Malnutrition produced by a severely inadequate amount of protein in the diet (skinny but big belly)
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Kwashiorkor
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Severe undernourishment causing an infant's weight to be really low for their age
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Marasmus
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inflammation of the thyroid gland (throat)
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Goiter
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cornea of the eye
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Xerophthalmia
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lack of red blood cells
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Amenmia
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Pop. growth, over nutrition in developed world, rising personal incomes, uneven distributions, poverty
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What are the prospects for reducing world hunger?
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1.resource competition 2.spread of disease 3. They look scary
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problems caused by pests
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carbamates,organophosphates,pyrethroids, DDT
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What are the classes of insecticides?
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pesticide treadmill
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What is "indicating a situation in which it becomes necessary for a farmer to continue using pesticides regularly because they have become an indispensable part of an agricultural cycle"
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inconsistencies in assessing chemical risks and lack of prosecutions for violations of chemical..........
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What are the food safety issues in food distribution?
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Salmonellosis
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food poisoning caused by consumption of food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella
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Campylobacter
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a bacterium that sometimes causes abortion in animals and food poisoning in humans.
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Listeriosis
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disease caused by infection with listeria.
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Staphylococcus aureus
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often thought of as the 24 hour flu
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E. coli
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a bacterium commonly found in the intestines of humans and other animals, where it usually causes no harm. Some strains can cause severe food poisoning, especially in old people and children.
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rare illness people can get from eating infected beef
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What is "mad cow" disease?-
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Listerosis
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Which bacterium presents a special risk of spontaneous abortions in pregnant women?
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Cross Contamination
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the process by which bacteria or other microorganisms are unintentionally transferred from one substance to the other
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Clean-you can not see soil Sanitary- it is actually clean
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What is the difference between clean and sanitary?
