AREC 365 REVISION EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS!!
One of the factors influencing the future demand and supply of food is ...
Prosperity
Approximately what proportion of the world's population suffers from hunger today?
10%
Most hunger related deaths occur among ...
preschool children
Widespread prosperity means that we need significantly more food production
True
Global quality of life will hinge of whether world food supply grows faster or slower than ...
world food demand
In the 1840s, a third of the Irish households depended almost exclusively on one of the
following for food
potatoes
Some of the unintended consequences of the Government response to the Irish Potato
Famine were: (multiple answers possible)
- Increased emigration to the Americas from Ireland
- Eviction of tenants by landlords and consolidation of farms
- Change in the nature of the land tenancy system over time
The factor other than weather situations which suppressed food output in Zimbabwe in the
early 2000s was
a government program to redistribute land
In contrast to virtually all development programs paid for by the wealthiest countries in
the world, who decides the types of projects on which money from the MCC is spent?
The country receiving the money itself
Which countries make up the "gang of four" according to William Easterly
1. Taiwan
2. Hong Kong
,3. Singapore
4. South Korea
Which of the following are examples of plants that are rich in amino acids derived from
good access to nitrogen?
Peas
Alfalfa
Beans
Micronutrient malnutrition is most easily tackled through food fortification.
True
Essential Amino Acids are
Amino acids that humans must consume from outside food sources
Proteins from the following source tend to be deficient in at least one of the essential amino
acids
vegetables
Food balance sheets can give a rough impression of nutritional state because:
They measure total food consumption in the whole country and if you divide by the population
you can find average consumption
The Jensen and Miller approach differs from traditional approaches to measuring
undernutrition in that it:
measures the percentage of calories consumed by the diet's "staple" food
Which of these is a valid reference group for height-for-age using the anthropometric
assessment?
Measurements of other individuals from the same region and sex
The Shakir arm circumference test is a useful measure of under nutrition in infants
because
- The materials needed to perform the test are inexpensive
- For children between 1 and 5 years, the tester does not need to know the exact age of the child
- The tester does not have to be able to read
Better nutrition makes it more likely that a person will reach their genetic height potential.
However, there is no evidence that being short has any negative economic consequences.
False
What are the twin benefits of feeding breast-milk to infants in developing countries?
, Sufficient nutrition and clean food supply
More than half of deaths of all children under the age of five in the whole world are
associated with malnutrition.
True
Nutritional deficiencies contribute what percentage to all DALY's lost in the world in
2010? (What proportion of all medically measurable suffering in the world?)
About 3%
One of the consequences of girls and women being less well cared in a country is that they
have less number of low birth-weight babies.
False
By international standards the undernutrition problem in the United States is almost
undetectable.
True
In which region of the world do we find the greatest number of undernourished people?
Asia and the Pacific
In which region of the world is the proportion of undernourished people the highest?
Sub-Saharan Africa
An increase in income is likely to do what to the aggregate demand curve for food?
It will shift the demand curve "outward"
Bennett's law states that the starchy staple ratio falls as income increases.
True
The fact that the demand for food has a price elasticity below 1 implies that:
People do not change consumption of food by large amounts when the price of food falls
Suppose that unexpected rains destroy the rice crops in Indonesia. What should happen to
the price of rice? (Assume there is no government regulations on prices and no imports)
increase
Changes in consumption of one good that occur when the price of that good changes are
measured by
Price Elasticity of Demand
For societies that are in the first stage of the demographic transition: infant mortality can
be as high as:
WITH 100% VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS!!
One of the factors influencing the future demand and supply of food is ...
Prosperity
Approximately what proportion of the world's population suffers from hunger today?
10%
Most hunger related deaths occur among ...
preschool children
Widespread prosperity means that we need significantly more food production
True
Global quality of life will hinge of whether world food supply grows faster or slower than ...
world food demand
In the 1840s, a third of the Irish households depended almost exclusively on one of the
following for food
potatoes
Some of the unintended consequences of the Government response to the Irish Potato
Famine were: (multiple answers possible)
- Increased emigration to the Americas from Ireland
- Eviction of tenants by landlords and consolidation of farms
- Change in the nature of the land tenancy system over time
The factor other than weather situations which suppressed food output in Zimbabwe in the
early 2000s was
a government program to redistribute land
In contrast to virtually all development programs paid for by the wealthiest countries in
the world, who decides the types of projects on which money from the MCC is spent?
The country receiving the money itself
Which countries make up the "gang of four" according to William Easterly
1. Taiwan
2. Hong Kong
,3. Singapore
4. South Korea
Which of the following are examples of plants that are rich in amino acids derived from
good access to nitrogen?
Peas
Alfalfa
Beans
Micronutrient malnutrition is most easily tackled through food fortification.
True
Essential Amino Acids are
Amino acids that humans must consume from outside food sources
Proteins from the following source tend to be deficient in at least one of the essential amino
acids
vegetables
Food balance sheets can give a rough impression of nutritional state because:
They measure total food consumption in the whole country and if you divide by the population
you can find average consumption
The Jensen and Miller approach differs from traditional approaches to measuring
undernutrition in that it:
measures the percentage of calories consumed by the diet's "staple" food
Which of these is a valid reference group for height-for-age using the anthropometric
assessment?
Measurements of other individuals from the same region and sex
The Shakir arm circumference test is a useful measure of under nutrition in infants
because
- The materials needed to perform the test are inexpensive
- For children between 1 and 5 years, the tester does not need to know the exact age of the child
- The tester does not have to be able to read
Better nutrition makes it more likely that a person will reach their genetic height potential.
However, there is no evidence that being short has any negative economic consequences.
False
What are the twin benefits of feeding breast-milk to infants in developing countries?
, Sufficient nutrition and clean food supply
More than half of deaths of all children under the age of five in the whole world are
associated with malnutrition.
True
Nutritional deficiencies contribute what percentage to all DALY's lost in the world in
2010? (What proportion of all medically measurable suffering in the world?)
About 3%
One of the consequences of girls and women being less well cared in a country is that they
have less number of low birth-weight babies.
False
By international standards the undernutrition problem in the United States is almost
undetectable.
True
In which region of the world do we find the greatest number of undernourished people?
Asia and the Pacific
In which region of the world is the proportion of undernourished people the highest?
Sub-Saharan Africa
An increase in income is likely to do what to the aggregate demand curve for food?
It will shift the demand curve "outward"
Bennett's law states that the starchy staple ratio falls as income increases.
True
The fact that the demand for food has a price elasticity below 1 implies that:
People do not change consumption of food by large amounts when the price of food falls
Suppose that unexpected rains destroy the rice crops in Indonesia. What should happen to
the price of rice? (Assume there is no government regulations on prices and no imports)
increase
Changes in consumption of one good that occur when the price of that good changes are
measured by
Price Elasticity of Demand
For societies that are in the first stage of the demographic transition: infant mortality can
be as high as:
