NUFD 153 – DYNAMICS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Food System Framework: What are the components? - Answers - - production
- processing
- distribution
- consumption
- waste
What societal components are considered in the Food System Framework? - Answers
- - Politics (conflict,war)
- Economy
- Society/Culture
- Environment
How long have humans been practicing agriculture? - Answers - C. 12,000 years
What explains the shift from hunter-gathers to agriculture? - Answers - - temperature
stabilized
- warmer climates allowed for people to build settlements which allowed for farming,
pastoralism (raising of animals)
Neolithic Revolution (First 1st Agricultural Revolution) - Answers - the critical transition
that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking homo sapiens from scattered groups of
hunter-gathers to farming villages to technologically sophisticated societies
Domestication - Answers - The process through which humans adapt wild
plants/animals for human use and begin to manage the life cycle of these plants
- Domestication Examples: goats, cattle, wheat, leguminous plants, e.g. peas
What are formerly a burden but farming/agriculture made it an asset for families? -
Answers - Children - settlement allowed for more children which contributed to labor
availability
How did agriculture change society and the environment? - Answers - - Change in
human bodies
- Children become an asset
- Tendency for expansion - Growing population, more farmland needed
- Storage
- More complex social organization - hierarchy, government
- Environment transformed (soil erosion, depletion of social nutrients, climate change,
water pollution)
- Production beyond subsistence
, Colonialism - Answers - The political, social, and economic domination of one people
over another for economic exploitation through violence, displacement, and oppressive
tactics
Columbian Exchange (after 1492) - Answers - Global transfer of plants, animals,
diseases, ideas and technology following the European conquest of the Americans
What crops were transferred between the New World (americans) and Old World
(europe)? - Answers - - Brought to the New World: Bananas, Cattle, Chickens, Citrus
fruits, coffee beans, grapes, horses, onions, peaches, pigs, rice, sugarcane, and wheat
- Brought to the Old World: Beans, Cacao (chocolate), Maize(corn), peanuts,
pineapples, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, turkeys
Second Agricultural Revolution (or Agro-Industrial Revolution) - Know Significance! -
Answers - The 2nd Agricultural Revolution was a period of innovation and increased
output, characterized by the use of mechanized tools/machinery for crop production, the
use of chemical fertilizer, and strategic crop rotation.
Industrial Revolution - Answers - the transition to new manufacturing processes in the
period from about 1760 to as late as 1840.
This transition included shifting from hand production methods to use of machines, new
chemical manufacturing and iron production process, improved efficiency of water
power, improved efficiency of water power, and the rise of the factory system
Crop Rotation - Answers - the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in
the same area in sequences seasons so that the soil of farms is not used to only one
type of nutrient.
It helps in reducing soil erosion, increases soil fertility and crop yield.
Common Field System - Answers - A system of land ownership in which land is owned
collectively by a number of persons, or by one person with others having certain
traditional rights, such as to allowing their livestock graze on the land, collect firewood,
or cut turf for fuel.
Key Elements of Capitalism - Answers - - profit-oriented
- value rests on labor
- characterized by competition
- necessarily dynamic and expansionary
Benefits to Profit oriented industrialized age - Answers - - agriculture production
increased in efficiency
- previous luxury items are now more widely available (coffee, chocolate, sugar)
- potential to be able to feed all people, and feed them nutritiously for cheap
What were the changes in consumption as a result of Agro-Industrial Revolution? -
Answers - - being able to consume meat was a marker of status
Food System Framework: What are the components? - Answers - - production
- processing
- distribution
- consumption
- waste
What societal components are considered in the Food System Framework? - Answers
- - Politics (conflict,war)
- Economy
- Society/Culture
- Environment
How long have humans been practicing agriculture? - Answers - C. 12,000 years
What explains the shift from hunter-gathers to agriculture? - Answers - - temperature
stabilized
- warmer climates allowed for people to build settlements which allowed for farming,
pastoralism (raising of animals)
Neolithic Revolution (First 1st Agricultural Revolution) - Answers - the critical transition
that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking homo sapiens from scattered groups of
hunter-gathers to farming villages to technologically sophisticated societies
Domestication - Answers - The process through which humans adapt wild
plants/animals for human use and begin to manage the life cycle of these plants
- Domestication Examples: goats, cattle, wheat, leguminous plants, e.g. peas
What are formerly a burden but farming/agriculture made it an asset for families? -
Answers - Children - settlement allowed for more children which contributed to labor
availability
How did agriculture change society and the environment? - Answers - - Change in
human bodies
- Children become an asset
- Tendency for expansion - Growing population, more farmland needed
- Storage
- More complex social organization - hierarchy, government
- Environment transformed (soil erosion, depletion of social nutrients, climate change,
water pollution)
- Production beyond subsistence
, Colonialism - Answers - The political, social, and economic domination of one people
over another for economic exploitation through violence, displacement, and oppressive
tactics
Columbian Exchange (after 1492) - Answers - Global transfer of plants, animals,
diseases, ideas and technology following the European conquest of the Americans
What crops were transferred between the New World (americans) and Old World
(europe)? - Answers - - Brought to the New World: Bananas, Cattle, Chickens, Citrus
fruits, coffee beans, grapes, horses, onions, peaches, pigs, rice, sugarcane, and wheat
- Brought to the Old World: Beans, Cacao (chocolate), Maize(corn), peanuts,
pineapples, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, turkeys
Second Agricultural Revolution (or Agro-Industrial Revolution) - Know Significance! -
Answers - The 2nd Agricultural Revolution was a period of innovation and increased
output, characterized by the use of mechanized tools/machinery for crop production, the
use of chemical fertilizer, and strategic crop rotation.
Industrial Revolution - Answers - the transition to new manufacturing processes in the
period from about 1760 to as late as 1840.
This transition included shifting from hand production methods to use of machines, new
chemical manufacturing and iron production process, improved efficiency of water
power, improved efficiency of water power, and the rise of the factory system
Crop Rotation - Answers - the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in
the same area in sequences seasons so that the soil of farms is not used to only one
type of nutrient.
It helps in reducing soil erosion, increases soil fertility and crop yield.
Common Field System - Answers - A system of land ownership in which land is owned
collectively by a number of persons, or by one person with others having certain
traditional rights, such as to allowing their livestock graze on the land, collect firewood,
or cut turf for fuel.
Key Elements of Capitalism - Answers - - profit-oriented
- value rests on labor
- characterized by competition
- necessarily dynamic and expansionary
Benefits to Profit oriented industrialized age - Answers - - agriculture production
increased in efficiency
- previous luxury items are now more widely available (coffee, chocolate, sugar)
- potential to be able to feed all people, and feed them nutritiously for cheap
What were the changes in consumption as a result of Agro-Industrial Revolution? -
Answers - - being able to consume meat was a marker of status
