A Period of Extreme Food Shortage Resulting in Widespread Starvation

question 65

Multiple Choice

A period of extreme food shortage resulting in widespread starvation and death is known by which of the following terms?

• A) plague
• B) famine
• C) food poverty
• D) food insecurity

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