Food Studies Unit 1 - Origins of food

Humans who obtain their food from nature, hunting animals and gathering wild plants are known as [blank_start]hunter gatherers[blank_end].

Tick the features of a hunter gatherer community.

Sedentary hunter-gatherer communities are groups of people who settled in [blank_start]one place, near a rich food resource.[blank_end]

The process of using selective breeding to make wild plants and animals more useful to humans.

To cultivate means to [blank_start]deliberately[blank_end] sew and tend crops on nearby land.

Agricultural production developed side by side with hunter gatherer communities and it is believed it took what sort of time frame to be established?

[blank_start]Chinampus[blank_end] are plant beds built by Mayan farmers on floating plots of land.

Select the characteristics of agricultural farming systems.

Food sources for hunter gatherers varied depending on their natural surroundings.

What foods hunter gatherer societies collected, depended on what grew in the area. Choose the typical foods they gathered.

Societal structure of the hunter gatherer tribes was:

Which of the following, that were relied upon by the hunter gatherer tribes, were affected by climatic changes and access to water?

An agricultural technique that involves slashing and burning plants in a forest to create fields to grow crops is called [blank_start]swidden[blank_end] farming.

The earliest village settlements began to appear in northern [blank_start]Mesopotamia[blank_end] about 10 000 - 6 000 BCE.

[blank_start]Mesopotamia[blank_end] covers much of what is today Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey.

Reliable water supply, locating and adapting fertile landscapes as well as the development of tools enabled the development of [blank_start]agriculture[blank_end] in Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica.

Mesoamerica was an early agricultural system that covers part of present day Mexico and Central America.

An important difference between Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia was the domestication process. In Mesoamerica they mostly focussed on domesticating plants with little attention to animals whereas in Mesopotamia [blank_start]both plants and animals[blank_end] were domesticated.

Which of the following statements are true regarding early agriculture?

In [blank_start]Mesopotamia[blank_end], barley and what were widely grown, along with oats and lentils.They also grew date palms that shaded vegetables from the hot sun, such as peas, beans, cucumber, eggplant and leeks and fruit that included grapes, apples, melons and figs.

Maize was a very important crop to the Mesoamerica region as surplus could be stored. Maize is commonly called [blank_start]corn[blank_end] in Australia.

In Mesoamerica the [blank_start]cocao[blank_end] plant was culturally important plant and continues to be important in the area.

Fruit trees were thought to be some of the first plants domesticated and cultivated in:

In Mesoamerica, the "three sister" crops grew. Corn provided a stalk for beans to grow while squash grew across the ground stopping weeds from growing. The beans also added nitrogen to the soil. This is known as [blank_start]companion[blank_end] planting.