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Food Technology Preliminary Course Exam Questions and Answers
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Food Technology Preliminary CourseExam Questions and Answers
staple food - Correct Answers -a basic or necessary food item that is consumed often
Staple plant foods - Correct Answers -Wheat and rice
Traditional aboriginal animal foods - Correct Answers -Insects, birds, reptiles, marine
life, marsupials
Traditional aboriginal plant foods - Correct Answers -Roots, fruits and vegetables,
stems, seeds and nuts
Bush tucker - Correct Answers -Plants and animals eaten by aborigines when colonists
arrived
market economy - Correct Answers -Private enterprise, price is determined by supply
and demand
Large, stable economy - Correct Answers -Attract foreign companies for the purpose of
trading
Relative poverty - Correct Answers -One or more of a person's basic needs are not met
due to a lack of money
Absolute poverty - Correct Answers -a lack of resources that is life-threatening
subsistence agriculture/farming - Correct Answers -producing just enough food for a
family's use
quality of life - Correct Answers -the standard of health, comfort, and happiness
experienced by an individual or group.
undernutrition, malnutrition - Correct Answers -Body's energy levels are lowered, and
ability to do physically demanding work is lowered
, Poverty cycle - Correct Answers -any circular chain of events starting and ending in
poverty, such as low income means low savings means low investment means low
growth means low incomes.
Social Justice - Correct Answers -the defense of human dignity by ensuring that
essential human needs are met and that essential human rights are protected for all
people
Embargo - Correct Answers -A ban on trade
subsidy - Correct Answers -government payment to encourage or protect a certain
economic activity
Tariff - Correct Answers -A tax on imported goods
hunger - Correct Answers -The physical need for food (feeling of emptiness, weakness
or pain)
Hypothalamus - Correct Answers -Controls body temperature, regulates appetite,
controls release of hormones
appetite - Correct Answers -the psychological desire for food
satiety - Correct Answers -feeling of fullness
BMR - Correct Answers -Basal Metabolic Rate: amount of energy expended while at
rest in a neutrally temperate enviroment
adipose tissue - Correct Answers -Tissue that stores fat.
Sensory Evaluation - Correct Answers -Scientifically testing food, using the human
senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing
Physiological factors affecting food selection - Correct Answers -Hunger, appetite,
satiety, nutritional requirements, reactions to food
Psychological factors affecting food selection - Correct Answers -Values, beliefs,
attitudes, experiences, habits, emotions, self-concept
Social factors affecting food selection - Correct Answers -Culture, traditions, lifestyle,
social interaction,
Economic factors affecting food selection - Correct Answers -Cost of food, marketplace,
available resources, occupation, finances,
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