Right of communities to define their own agricultural and dietary policies?
Answer: Food sovereignty
Lack of vitamins and minerals such as iron and iodine, despite enough calories?
Answer: Hidden hunger
Share of people whose usual dietary energy intake is below minimum requirements (FAO)?
Answer: Undernourishment
IB Geography · Option · SL and HL
IB Geography Option F: Food and health
2 ready-made review sets for this option, 28 questions in all, for SL and HL, to play as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
A question from the sets
Right of communities to define their own agricultural and dietary policies?
- Food security
- Food self-sufficiency
- Fair trade
- Food sovereigntyRight answer
What Option F covers
Option F follows the guide's four parts: measuring food and health; food systems and the spread of diseases; stakeholders in food and health; and future health and food security and sustainability. The sets cover how food and health are measured: food security and food sovereignty, undernourishment, stunting and wasting, hidden hunger and overnutrition, the Global Hunger Index, BMI, child mortality, DALYs and HALE, and the epidemiological transition. Then how food is produced and traded, from the Green Revolution and GM crops to intensification, agribusiness, aquaculture, Fairtrade and food miles; and how diseases spread, by contagious and hierarchical diffusion, with endemic diseases and pandemics, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, non-communicable diseases, and herd immunity.
Where students slip
- Stunting is low height for age, a sign of long-term, chronic undernutrition. Wasting is low weight for height, a sign of recent, acute undernutrition.
- A pandemic is defined by how far a disease spreads, across several continents or the world, not by how deadly it is. An epidemic is a sharp rise in cases in one region, and an endemic disease is always present there at a fairly stable level.
- DALYs count years of healthy life lost, so a higher figure means worse health. HALE counts the years a person can expect to live in full health, so a higher figure means better health.
The sets
Play this set opens the set in splycr, where you can read every question and host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account, and students join with the code on the board. A free account lets you copy a set and edit it.
The questions were written for the splycr library by Biology by Bradford. Each one plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.
Plants whose DNA has been altered in a laboratory, e.g. for pest resistance?
Answer: GM crops
Disease constantly present at a fairly stable level in a region?
Answer: Endemic
Spread that jumps from large cities to smaller towns, skipping intervening rural areas?
Answer: Hierarchical diffusion
Game modes that suit this unit or option
Every set plays in all eight modes. These two fit this unit or option best.
Splycr
Option F is full of measures that sit side by side: stunting and wasting, DALYs and HALE, endemic and pandemic. A streak raises the multiplier to 3× and one slip drops it back to 1×, so the student who can tell them apart pulls ahead.
Kaboom
The answers are short (wasting, HALE, Fairtrade, aquaculture), so the bomb moves fast and every student answers many times. Nobody is knocked out: the holder just loses points when it goes off.