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Question | Answer |
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What did the Native Americans call corn? | maize |
What fraction of earths crops are corn? | 1/10 |
How many years ago was corn first cultivated? | 9,000 |
What do you call the yellow pieces of corn that you eat? | kernel |
What do you call the part of the corn that you don't eat? | cob |
What do you call it when you pull the green covering off the corn? | shucking |
What is the most common variety of corn grown on earth? | yellow dent #2 |
These machines greatly reduced how long it took to harvest corn. | harvesters |
What do farmers add to the soil to increase crop production? | fertiizer |
Using to much fertilizer leads to water: | pollution |
What product made with corn sweetens many products and leads to health problems? | high fructose corn syrup |
What percentage of the corn grown is eaten by humans? | 40% |
About how many species of flightless birds are there? | 60 |
Birds stop flying to conserve: | energy |
Where do you usually find flightless birds? | islands |
The first cheeses came not from cows, but: | sheep and goats |
When milk is left out too long it will: | sour and clump |
Little Miss Muffett was eating these cheese parts: | curds and whey |
What food group does cheese belong to? | dairy |
What molecule in cheese makes some people sick? | lactose |
True or false? Spice is a taste, just like sweet, sour, and salty. | false |
What triggers heat receptors in your skin and makes it feel like it is burning? | spices |
What triggers cold receptors in your skin and makes it feel like it is cooling? | menthol |
Spices with heavy molecules make your _________ burn. | mouth |
Spices with light molecules make your _________ burn. | nose (nasal passages) |
What scale is used to rate the spiciness of peppers? | Scoville |