Unit 12: Option F — The Geography of Food and Health
Topic 12.1: Measuring food and health Questions
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A diagram shows that rising wealth in Asia increases its food imports. Outline one way this could change food consumption in other regions.
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Explain how one human factor can change the type or amount of food people consume over time.
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Over-nutrition is most strongly linked to which kind of disease?
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Explain why diseases of poverty such as malaria and cholera remain common in many low-income countries.
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Outline two human factors that have changed what people eat over the past fifty years.
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Malaria, cholera and tuberculosis are best described as diseases of…
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Explain the difference between undernutrition and over-nutrition, and give a health effect of each.
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Malnutrition is best defined as a diet that is…
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Other than population growth, suggest two reasons why diseases of affluence are becoming more common worldwide, and develop each one.
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Food consumption is most often measured as the average daily…
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As a region grows wealthier, the nutrition transition usually means diets shift toward…
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The table summarises the obesity band (% of adults) of states in one country in two years.
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Obesity rose across most regions of a high-income country over a decade. Outline one reason for this rise and develop it.
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Maternal mortality is much higher in low-income countries than in high-income ones. Outline one reason for this and develop how it raises the death rate.
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The table shows food security index scores (out of 100) for four countries.
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Name one main component of the food security index and outline what it measures.
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The table below shows the percentage of adults with type-2 diabetes (a disease of affluence) by world region.
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The table below shows food supply, undernourishment and life expectancy for five world regions.
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Which is one of the three pillars of the food security index?
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On a choropleth map of obesity, you read a country's value from…
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