Food and Eating Objectives
Name _______________________
Date ______________ Period ____
1. How did fast food change our agricultural system?
2. Historically, what foods were produced in our prairie region? Which of these are
still major crops?
3. How have farms on the prairie changed in the past 60 years?
4. What does this symbol mean? 
5. What does sustainability mean in general?
6. Why is diversity in our crops important?
7. What is a monoculture? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
monocultures?
8. What is a subsidy and how does this encourage monocultures?
9. What four crops provide most of the world’s food?
10. Explain advantages and disadvantages of using pesticides.
11. Describe the pesticide treadmill.
12. Describe biomagnification.
13. How do pests become resistant to pesticides?
14. How do pesticides get into our waterways?
15. Why do monocultures require heavy use of fertilizers?
16. What is the difference between a synthetic fertilizer and an organic fertilizer?
17. What do the numbers on a package of fertilizer mean?
18. Describe the process of eutrophication.
19. What is the Dead Zone and why does it form in the summer? What are the
consequences of the Dead Zone?
20. Describe the modern Western diet.
21. What are the major health effects of eating the Western diet?
22. What is a food desert? Are there any in Houston?
23. Contrast “whole” foods and processed foods, both in what they are and in their
environmental impact.
Monday Nov 10
Tuesday Nov 11
Wednesday Nov 12/Thursday Nov 13
Friday Nov 14
Intro to Food Unit
Notes:
Monocultures and
pesticides
Quiz – Obj #1-14
Notes: Fertilizers
and Eutrophication
HW – study for
quiz tomorrow
Go over biodiversity test
Monday Nov 17
Tuesday Nov 18
Wednesday Nov 19/Thursday Nov 20
Friday Nov 21
Notes: The
American diet
Notes: American
Diet
Test – Objectives #1-23
Start Sustainable
food unit
Notes: How is the
prairie important
in our food?
Review
Assign Grocery
Store Challenge
Set up potato experiment
Check potato experiment – take
measurements
HW – Grocery Store Challenge
HW – Grocery
Store Challenge
HW – plan your
trip to the store –
when will you go?
How will you get
there?
Monday Nov 24
Tuesday Nov 25
Grocery Store
Challenge due!
Eating Interview
Assigned – MAJOR
GRADE! Due Dec 5
Thanksgiving Break!
I’m thankful for the opportunity to teach YOU! 