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THIRD EXAM ANSWERS 1.It paves the way for a new development on food and agriculture. **ANS. Modern Biotechnology** 2\. It is an ecologically and socially sustainable tourism that can be of greater term value in many ways than active industries, such as logging and mining. **ANS. Ecotourism** 3....

THIRD EXAM ANSWERS 1.It paves the way for a new development on food and agriculture. **ANS. Modern Biotechnology** 2\. It is an ecologically and socially sustainable tourism that can be of greater term value in many ways than active industries, such as logging and mining. **ANS. Ecotourism** 3.What is the scientific name of Philippine eagle? **ANS. Pithecophaga Jefferyi** 4.What country does the Quttinirpaaq National Park locate in? **ANS. Canada** 5\. An example of a Philippine national park. **ANS. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park** 6.This country is now believed to have the world\'s highest deforestation rate or forest loss. **ANS. Indonesia** 7.It is called as damage to vegetation and soil including loss of native forage species and erosion. **ANS. Overgrazing** 8.This country claims to have the highest proportion of any country in the world covered by its land area (66%). **ANS. Venezuela** 9\. It has been listed as one of the World Heritage Centers named by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) which serves as the home for distinct wildlife and biodiversity conservation habitat. **ANS. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park** 10.This country contains an extensive protected area. Approximately 2 million kilometers (25%) of the nation\'s land, mostly in the Amazon Basin is protected. **ANS. Brazil** 11.It plays a part in more modern-day economic activities than an other\... **ANS. Wood** 12.This technique is being used that allow genes and DNA to be transferred from one source to another. **ANS. Genetic Engineering** 13.The characteristics of an organisms and its successors can be modified today by **ANS. Genetically modified organisms** 14.It refers to the molecular blueprint for a living thing. **ANS. DNA** 15\. BAI stands for? **ANS. Bureau of Animal Industry** 16.This gene originating from soil bacteria provide a natural insecticide to further protect crops. **ANS. BT** 17.He estimates that better nutrition during the 19th century may account for approximately half of all economic growth in Europe. **ANS. Robert Fogel** 18\. In this country, wealthy landowners have in recent decades displaced hundreds of thousands of peasant farmers, first to establish large cattle ranches and, more importantly, to increase soybean production. **ANS. Brazil** 19.It is often caused by drought or floods, but the root causes of extreme food shortages typically include political turmoil, such as wars that displace people, drive farmers from their farms or make farming too risky for field work. **ANS. Famines** 20.It is a type of extreme protein malnutrition with edema and an enlarged liver with fatty infiltrations. **ANS. Kwashiorkor** 21.Genetically Modified Organism is also called as. **ANS. Living Modified Organisms** 22\. Increased global soy production has raised protein consumption rates in many nations, including **ANS. China** 23.The Biodiversity International has release a module titled \"Law and Policy of Relevance to the Management of Genetic Resources\" which aims to help professionals in managing, serving, and using plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. **ANS. Plant** 24.One of the benefits of GM crops is the genes originating from soil bacteria provide a natural insecticide to further protect crops **ANS. Bacillus thuringiensis** 25.Corn (a grass, also known as maize) and soybeans have been are the main products in the \_\_\_\_\_\_. **ANS. United States** 26.One of the most important is the CAFO, are animals are kept and fed for rapid growth mainly from soy and corn. What is the meaning of CAFO? **ANS. Confined Animal Feeding Operation** 27.Moreover, in the \_\_\_\_\_\_ those can find a fan of meat lovers make money from the meat business. A businessman named Santiago Toledo fusses over a steak he says that have an inner temperature of about 130 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, with its seared outside and a bit reddish in the center. **ANS. Philippines** 28\. It suffers from shortages in protein and calories, which gives a wizened look which have flaky skin. **ANS. Marasmus** 29.The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates that largely how many billion people suffer from deficiencies in vitamins, minerals. Or proteins? **ANS. 3 billion** 30\. 20 percent of the population of are practically eliminated from the labor force because they were too poor and hungry to work. Fogel predicts that better nutrition could account for approximately half of all economic growth in Europe during the 19th century. **ANS. England and France** 31\. It is important on many scales. An extreme taught, flood, or insect outbreak can affect vast regions in the poorest countries. **ANS. Food security** 32.Around how many percent of people who hungry are in developing countries. In Sub- Saharan Africa, an area afflicted by political instability, hunger is extremely severe? **ANS. 95 percent** 33\. It is the method by which food, feed,fiber and many other desirable products are produced by growing certain plants and raising domesticated animals (livestock) **ANS. Agriculture** 34.The reefs of El Nido contain at least how many species of sea turtles? **ANS. Five** 35\. The reefs of EL Nido contain how many species of fish. **ANS. 1600** 36.These are perhaps the world\'s most complex habitats. Containing tens of thousands of marine animals, one-third of all marine fish live on here for part of their lives. **ANS. Coral Reefs** 37.It is recognized as a marine biodiversity hotspot worldwide and a priority jurisdiction for the respective protection. **ANS. Philippines** 38.What is the scientific name of Philippine cockatoo? **ANS. Cacatua haematuropygia** 39.The key attractions of the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park covering how many hectares of land are its vast ancient forests, spectacular limestone karst landscapes, cave systems, natural rock formations and the underground river that \'emerges straight into the sea.\'? **ANS. 22,202** 40.UNESCO stands for. **ANS. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization** 41.In which country in Europe that are plants attempt to create a hydroelectric dam in the center of the park in the Pindus National Park? **ANS. Greece** 42.National Park on Ellesmere Island in Canada is an example of a park with high forest values but low biodiversity. **ANS. Quttinirpaaq National Park** 43.This country includes a large protected area. Approximately 2 million kilometers (25 percent) of the nation\'s land is covered mainly in the Amazon Basin. **ANS. Brazil** 44.What state in the USA does the Northern Great Plains located? **ANS. Montana** 45.These are among the biomes that accompany the forest often used by humans. **ANS. Grasslands** 46.It is thought that these forests contain more than two-thirds of all higher plant biomass and at least half of all the world\'s plant. animal, and microbial species. **ANS. tropical forest** 47\. It describes the forest as any region in which trees cover more than 10% of the land. This definition includes forests ranging from open savannas, whose trees occupy less than 20% of the area, **ANS. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization** 48.Throughout Africa, the Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Madagascar, Cameroon, and Liberia coastal forests have already been completely destroyed. This country in the Caribbean was once forested by 80 percent; today it has largely destroyed all that forest, and the land is barren and eroded. **ANS. Haiti** 49\. \*One of the most important is the confined animal feeding operation (CAFO), where animals are kept and fed for rapid growth mainly from soy and corn. Such operations dominate livestock- raising in the U.S., Europe, and other countries increasingly. **ANS. China** 50.It has release a module titled \"Law and Policy of Relevance to the Management of Plant Genetic Resources\" which aims to help professionals in managing, conserving, and using plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. **ANS. Biodiversity International**