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Food Systems Learning Log Entry 1
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Task 1: Cycle Driving Question
Do after completing Task 1
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What is our relationship with our food systems?
What are your initial ideas about how we can create sustainable food systems?
Apply your knowledge from readings: Other than seed development, identify and discuss two
agricultural practices associated with the Green Revolution, and for each practice describe one
environmental disadvantage associated with it.
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Task 2: Choose Your Crops!
After instruction on soil basics and biogeochemical cycles
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Questions 1-3 refer to the following processes. You may use each choice once,
more than once, or not at all.
A. Nitrification
B. Denitrification
C. Assimilation
D. Ammonification
E. Nitrogen fixation
1. Ammonia is converted to nitrite, then to nitrate.
2. Plant roots absorb ammonium ions and nitrate ions for use in making
molecules such as DNA, amino acids, and proteins.
3. Nitrate ions and nitrite ions are converted into nitrous oxide gas and
nitrogen gas (N2)
4. The water-holding capacity of soil is LEAST likely to be affected by the
addition of which of the following?
A. Clay
B. Humus
C. Manure
D. Pesticide
E. Sand
5. The two major processes involved in the carbon cycle are
A. Weathering and erosion
B. Photosynthesis and respiration
C. Evaporation and transpiration
D. Erosion and deposition
E. Fixation and denitrification
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Task 3: Pest Invasion
After instruction in pest management
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The following is an excerpt from a newspaper article describing a controversy.
Write your answers to the following questions on the next page:
(a) Select four of the people interviewed. Provide a concise argument, based on scientific
principles, that supports or refutes each individual’s viewpoint.
(b) Identify one specific pest and explain its adverse effects on either agriculture or human
health. Describe a viable method, other than the use of pesticides, of controlling this pest.
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Task 3: Pest Invasion (continued)
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(a) Select four of the people interviewed. Provide a concise argument,
based on scientific principles, that supports or refutes each
individual’s viewpoint.
(b) Identify one specific pest and explain its adverse effects on either
agriculture or human health. Describe a viable method, other than
the use of pesticides, of controlling this pest.
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Task 5: Closing the Deal
After completing the soil salinization lab
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Write one AP-style multiple-choice question about soil salinization.
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Task 5: Where’s the Water?
After instruction on irrigation techniques and water resources
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Answer the following multiple-choice questions.
1. Which of the following is likely to minimize soil erosion?
A. High-yield crops
B. Deforestation
C. Herbicide use
D. Annual plowing
E. No-till agriculture
2.
Which of the following methods of agricultural irrigation results in the loss of heat
of the least amount of water by evaporation?
A. Conventional center-pivot irrigation
B. Drip irrigation
C. Laser-level irrigation
D. Flood irrigation
E. Gravity-flow irrigation
3.
The presence of high levels of fecal coliform bacteria in a water source indicates
that the water
A. Is safe to drink
B. Is safe to swim in
C. Contains too little oxygen to support fish life
D. Has been recently chlorinated at sewage treatment plant
E. Has been contaminated by untreated human or animal waste
4.
Which of the following is most likely to be the direct result of lack of genetic
diversity in a food crop such as corn?
A. Decreased kernel size
B. Decreased potential yield
C. Decreased dependence on chemical fertilizers
D. Increased susceptibility to plant disease
E. Increased resistance to pests
5.
Overgrazing of public land by privately owned livestock is an example of the
A. Tragedy of the commons
B. Right of eminent domain
C. Rule of seventy
D. Principle of manifest destiny
E. Swapping of debt for nature
6.
The land on a 100-acre farm is equally suited for grazing cattle and growing corn.
Of the following ways of distributing land use, which would produce the greatest
number of calories for human consumption?
Acres for
Acres for
Grazing Cattle
Growing Corn
A. 100
0
B. 80
20
C. 50
50
D. 20
80
E. 0
100
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Task 6: The Power of One
Before completing Task 6
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The following questions are related to food systems, but they were not directly
addressed in this unit. Answer them to the best of your ability.
1. Reasons that human populations historically have settled in floodplains include
which of the following?
I.
The soil in floodplains is usually fertile
II.
The terrain in floodplains tends to be flat.
III.
Floodplains are close to rivers for transportation.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
I only
II only
I and II only
II and III only
I, II, and III
2.
Compared with people in developing countries, people in industrialized countries
are more likely to eat
A. Beans
B. Beef
C. Corn
D. Rice
E. Wheat
3.
Approximately what percentage of the water on Earth is freshwater (liquid and
solid)?
A. 75%
B. 25%
C. 2.5%
D. 0.25%
E. 0.025%
Notes from class discussion
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Reflection
After completing the reflection
Look back at your Task 1 Learning Log response to the cycle driving question. Skim through your other responses in
the Learning Log. Your understanding of the driving question should now be more detailed. Answer the question
again here, using specific details from the cycle to support your response.
What is our relationship with our food systems? How can we support sustainable food systems?
4. Notes from class discussion
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