chpater 15.1

Assignment: Read and outline the first 5 pages of chapter 15 (section 1). Use the following worksheet as a check list of vacabulary words and questions that should be answered in a good outline. If your outline is issing many of these topics, you should add them to your outline. If you outline is very long and includes many details not on this worksheet then you may be spending too much time outlining and you should try to abbreviate more in the future.
Chapter 15.1, Feeding the world, homework assigned Thursday, 8-20-09. Due on Monday 8-24-09.

Vocabulary
Famine
calorie
Calorie
Kilocalorie
Malnutrition
Diet
Grains
Efficiency
Yield
Drought
Green revolution
Subsistence farmers
Deficiency
Amino acid -constituent of protein: a compound belonging to a class that contains an amino group. Amino acids make up proteins and are important components of cells.
Amino acid deficiency
Calories -
Scurvy- disease caused by the lack of vitamin-C
TTell us moreVitamin- organic substance essential to nutrition: an organic substance essential in small quantities to the metabolism in most animals.
Mineral- - inorganic substance in nature: a substance that occurs naturally in rocks and in the ground and has its own characteristic appearance and chemical composition- mined substance: a naturally occurring substance that is mined or extracted from the ground
What are the major causes of malnutrition?

Compare the environmental costs of producing different types of food.

How do food distribution problems contribute to famine?

How does drought lead to famine?

Why is the green revolution important?

What problems has the green revolution caused?

If you eat 2600 calories per day and only burn 2300 calories a day, how long will it take you to gain one kilogram?

How many pounds in a kilogram?

How many calories do you eat and drink each day?
Keep a log for three days.
Calculate the average amount of calories consumed per day.
Extrapolate this to calories per month.
Calculate how many calories this is per month.