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Year 9 Geography · Food security

Name: ______________________

Date: ____________

1. Which best defines food security?
- ☐ (a) Locking the pantry
- ☐ (b) All people at all times can obtain enough safe, nutritious food
- ☐ (c) Growing only one crop
- ☐ (d) Exporting all food
2. Which is a main cause of hunger in the world today?
- ☐ (a) Unequal access caused by poverty and conflict
- ☐ (b) The world producing too little food overall
- ☐ (c) Too many supermarkets
- ☐ (d) Too much rain everywhere
3. Which is a threat to food production?
- ☐ (a) Improved irrigation
- ☐ (b) Reduced food waste
- ☐ (c) Land degradation
- ☐ (d) Better storage
4. What does 'stability' mean as a dimension of food security?
- ☐ (a) Food must be heavy
- ☐ (b) Food never changes
- ☐ (c) Farms must be flat
- ☐ (d) Food supply and access are reliable over time
5. Which is a strategy to improve food security?
- ☐ (a) Reducing food waste
- ☐ (b) Building houses on prime farmland
- ☐ (c) Increasing land clearing on steep slopes
- ☐ (d) Wasting irrigation water
6. The distance food travels from farm to plate is called food ____.
7. Which dimension of food security is about whether enough food is produced?
8. A family buys 10 kg of food and throws away 1.5 kg. What percentage was wasted?

Answer sheet

1. All people at all times can obtain enough safe, nutritious food — Food security is about reliable access to enough nutritious food.
2. Unequal access caused by poverty and conflict — Hunger is mostly about access, not total production.
3. Land degradation — Degraded land produces less food.
4. Food supply and access are reliable over time — Stability means reliability over time.
5. Reducing food waste — Less waste means more food reaches people.
6. miles — Food miles measure transport distance.
7. availability — Availability concerns the supply of food.
8. 15 — 1.5 ÷ 10 = 0.15 = 15%.