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NUFD 153 - Dynamics Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Food System Framework: What are the components? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - production
- processing
- distribution
- consumption
- waste
What societal components are considered in the Food System Framework? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - Politics
(conflict,war)
- Economy
- Society/Culture
- Environment
How long have humans been practicing agriculture? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ C. 12,000 years
What explains the shift from hunter-gathers to agriculture? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - temperature stabilized
- warmer climates allowed for people to build settlements which allowed for farming, pastoralism
(raising of animals)
Neolithic Revolution (First 1st Agricultural Revolution) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The process through which humans adapt wild plants/animals for
human use and begin to manage the life cycle of these plants
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- Domestication Examples: goats, cattle, wheat, leguminous plants, e.g. peas
What are formerly a burden but farming/agriculture made it an asset for families? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓
Children - settlement allowed for more children which contributed to labor availability
How did agriculture change society and the environment? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The political, social, and economic domination of one people over another
for economic exploitation through violence, displacement, and oppressive tactics
Columbian Exchange (after 1492) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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)? Ans: ✓
✓ ✓ - 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! Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓
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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period
from about 1760 to as late as 1840.
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NUFD 153 - Dynamics Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Food System Framework: What are the components? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - production
- processing
- distribution
- consumption
- waste
What societal components are considered in the Food System Framework? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - Politics
(conflict,war)
- Economy
- Society/Culture
- Environment
How long have humans been practicing agriculture? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ C. 12,000 years
What explains the shift from hunter-gathers to agriculture? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - temperature stabilized
- warmer climates allowed for people to build settlements which allowed for farming, pastoralism
(raising of animals)
Neolithic Revolution (First 1st Agricultural Revolution) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The process through which humans adapt wild plants/animals for
human use and begin to manage the life cycle of these plants
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- Domestication Examples: goats, cattle, wheat, leguminous plants, e.g. peas
What are formerly a burden but farming/agriculture made it an asset for families? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓
Children - settlement allowed for more children which contributed to labor availability
How did agriculture change society and the environment? Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ - 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ The political, social, and economic domination of one people over another
for economic exploitation through violence, displacement, and oppressive tactics
Columbian Exchange (after 1492) Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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)? Ans: ✓
✓ ✓ - 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! Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓
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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period
from about 1760 to as late as 1840.
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