Humanities Study Flashcards

What is environmental vegetarianism?

What is veganism?

What % of agricultural land in the USA is used for the meat industry?

What are the 3 main ways eggs are farmed?

What is crop yield?

What does crop yield reflect?

What are the 6 basic biophysical resources successful crop growth depends on?

What are 3 ways in which humans have manipulated the environment in order to produce good, high-yielding crops?

What are 4 examples of new technologies that have raised crop yields?

What does the success of an agricultural enterprise depend on?

What negative impact can human intervention of agriculture lead to?

What is there an urgent need for in the agricultural industry in the coming decades?

What is the Gene Revolution?

What do supporters of GM foods believe?

What do critics of GM foods believe?

What are the advantages of GM foods?

What are the disadvantages of GM foods?

What was the Green Revolution?

What occurred during the first Green Revolution?

What were the key agricultural advances made during the first Green Revolution?

How did the 2nd Green Revolution start?

What were some of the positive impacts of the Green Revolution?

How did diets change after the Green Revolutions?

What were the environmental impacts of the Green Revolution?

What were the social impacts of the Green Revolutions?

What is food security?

How many people in the world are undernourished?

What are the 8 threats and limitations to global food security?

What is the climate of a coniferous forest?

What is the climate of a deciduous forest?

What is the climate of a tropical rainforest?

What is the climate of tundra?

What is the climate of temperate grassland?

What is the climate of a tropical savanna?

What is the climate of a cool desert?

What is the climate of a temperate desert?

What is the climate of a tropical desert?

In what year did the enclosed agricultural system accelerate in Britain?

In what year did James Hargreaves invent the Spinning Jenny?

In what year did Richard Arkwright invent the water frame?

In what year did Samuel Crompton invent the Spinning Mule?

In what year did James Watt invent a steam engine to drive machines?

In what year did Henry Cort invent puddling to produce wrought iron?

In what year did Edmund Cartwright invent the power loom?

In what year did George Stephenson invent 'the Rocket', the first working locomotive?

In what year did gas street lighting become common in Britain?

In what year did Samuel Morse send the first successful telegraph message?

In what year was the Bessemer Process invented to enable the mass production of steel?

In what year did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?

In what year did Thomas Edison invent the invent the first reliable electric lightbulb?

In what year did the Wright Brothers invent modern flight?

In what year did Henry Ford begin mass producing the Model T Ford?

What was the ancient Confucian belief about China?

What did the Chinese believe about the Western World?

How did opinions in China begin to change?

What was the first known European country to establish a trading post with China, and when?

What were the main Chinese imports Britain wanted?

What was the problem with Chinese/British trade?

What did China make Britain pay for goods in?

By 1800, what product accounted for 90% of trade between Britain and China?

What was the Canton System?

How did Britain attempt to gain further trading privileges with China?

Where did Britain source the opium from?

At the height of the opium trade, how many people in China were addicted to the drug?

How did China respond to the illegal opium trade?

What did Lin instruct the British to do in 1839?

What did the British demand as a rebuttal to this?

What was the Nanking Treaty?

What were the main areas that were impacted thanks to the Industrial Revolution?