Exam 4: Population and Food

What was able to generate large amounts of relatively cheap food, thus bypassing Malthusian limits?

Malthus' basic argument is that while population increases at a ________ rate, food supply grows only at an ________ rate.

What is NOT one of chief Malthusian checks that were argued to bring population growth back into alignment with the food supply?

What is NOT one of the qualities of areas with the greatest population densities?

What is NOT an example of the declining availability of water that Schade and Pimentel warn of?

Which of the following countries is an example of the geographic distribution of high levels of obesity?

What does NOT cause a famine?

If we shift our focus away from the basic supply of food, what is the wider concern for future debates?

According to Schade and Pimentel, if the population increases to 9.2 billion, food insecurity will result from what two factors?

Some have suggested that through a variety of methods it will be possible for the global food production system to meet the demand of nine billion people by 2050. What of the following comes as a result of the agricultural innovations of the Green Revolution?

What term describes the situation when people do not have relatively easy access to safe and nutritious food, either on a permanent or transitory basis?

What do Schade and Pimentel argue is responsible for the loss of irrigated land, some of the most productive land on the planet?

Agricultural production has __________ food supply enough to _________ the original Malthusian prediction.

Which type of government is most likely to suffer famines?

What has contributed to the increase of aquaculture or fish farming enterprises, which have their own environmental pollution and genetic contamination issues?