IB ESS Unit 5
LEDC - correct answer ✔✔Less economically developed country. A country with low to moderate
industrialization and low to moderate average GNP per capital
MEDC - correct answer ✔✔More economically developed country. A country with high industrialization
and high average GNP per capita
Agribusiness - correct answer ✔✔the business of agricultural production including farming, seed supply,
breeding, chemicals for agriculture, machinery, food harvesting, distribution, processing and stonage
Commercial agriculture (cash cropping) - correct answer ✔✔large scale production of crops and
livestocks for sale.
Subsistence agriculture - correct answer ✔✔farming for self-sufficiency to grow enough for a family
Pastoral farming - correct answer ✔✔raising animals
Arable farming - correct answer ✔✔growing crops on good soils
mixed farming - correct answer ✔✔both animals and crops
Undernourishment - correct answer ✔✔lack of calories [not nutrients! Even it sounds like it, NOT
nutrients!]
Unbalanced diet - correct answer ✔✔lack of essential nutrients (proteins, vitamin, certain minerals)
although the food contains enough energy
Livestock - correct answer ✔✔a useful means of converting plant materials unsuitable for human
digestion systems (grows) into valued protein.
LEDC - correct answer ✔✔Less economically developed country. A country with low to moderate
industrialization and low to moderate average GNP per capital
MEDC - correct answer ✔✔More economically developed country. A country with high industrialization
and high average GNP per capita
Agribusiness - correct answer ✔✔the business of agricultural production including farming, seed supply,
breeding, chemicals for agriculture, machinery, food harvesting, distribution, processing and stonage
Commercial agriculture (cash cropping) - correct answer ✔✔large scale production of crops and
livestocks for sale.
Subsistence agriculture - correct answer ✔✔farming for self-sufficiency to grow enough for a family
Pastoral farming - correct answer ✔✔raising animals
Arable farming - correct answer ✔✔growing crops on good soils
mixed farming - correct answer ✔✔both animals and crops
Undernourishment - correct answer ✔✔lack of calories [not nutrients! Even it sounds like it, NOT
nutrients!]
Unbalanced diet - correct answer ✔✔lack of essential nutrients (proteins, vitamin, certain minerals)
although the food contains enough energy
Livestock - correct answer ✔✔a useful means of converting plant materials unsuitable for human
digestion systems (grows) into valued protein.
