GCSE Biology – Sustainable methods for food production

Last updated: 04/05/2020
OCR Gateway GCSE Science – Combined science foundation Feeding the human race GCSE Biology – Sustainable methods for food production

Learning Objectives

-I can describe the need to find sustainable methods for food production
-I can describe ways to improve the efficiency of food production
-I can describe why some farmers use high protein foods

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  1. What do scientists do to help food security?

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  2. What is sustainability?

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  3. Why does limiting movement improve efficiency of food production?

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  4. Why does keeping temperature controlled help food production?

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  5. How do farmers improve the efficiency of food production?

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  6. How do farmers improve the efficiency of food production?

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  7. What is intensive farming?

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  8. What does intensive farming use?

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  9. Give an advantage of intensive farming

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  10. Give a disadvantage of intensive farming

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  11. What is a problem with intensive farming?

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  12. Why do some people consider intensive farming unethical?

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  13. What is monoculture?

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  14. What do intensive farming and monoculture do?

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  15. What is a problem with monoculture?

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  16. What is organic farming?

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  17. Why is organic farming used?

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  18. How does organic farming avoid monoculture?

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  19. Why do people pay more for organic produce?

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  20. What does plant rotation do to biodiversity?

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  21. What do farmers feed livestock?

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  22. Why do farmers feed livestock high protein food?

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  23. What do farmers sometimes give livestock?

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  24. Why do farmers give livestock antibiotics?

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  25. What is farmers using antibiotics causing?

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