The origins of food

Question 1

Define agricultural food systems

Answer 1

The establishment of early permanent settlements close to reliable water supplies, in order to plant and harvest crops, and to domesticate or frame animals such as dogs, goats and sheep.

Question 2

Define cultivate

Answer 2

To deliberately sow and tend a crop on nearby land

Question 3

Define domestication

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Define hunter-gatherer

Answer 4

Used to describe humans who obtain their food from nature, hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

Question 5

Define sedentary hunter-gatherer communities

Answer 5

Groups of people who settled in one place, near a rich food source.

Question 6

Define swidden farming

Answer 6

An agricultural technique that involves slashing and burning the plants in a forest to create fields to grow crops

Question 7

Challenges facing hunter-gatherer communities

Answer 7

Dramatic change in climate which led to shortages of food and often leading to starvation.

Question 8

Factors that facilitated the development of agriculture

Answer 8

Largely dependent on the ability of sedentary hunter-gatherer groups to provide a reliable water supply for crops.

Question 8

Advantages of a hunter-gatherer society

Answer 8

The hunter-gatherer lifestyle provided healthy diets, they were physically active and moving, they gained strong social connections.