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A period of extreme food shortage resulting in widespread starvation and death is known as?
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famine
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What does famine meen?
A famine is a period in time when there is not enough food to feed those affected by it.Definitions of famine on the Web: * dearth: an acute insufficiency * a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and deathwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine * extreme shortage of food in a region; a period of extreme shortage of food in a region; During times of famineen.wiktionary.org/wiki/Famine * Widespread hunger caused by the near complete lack of food.www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/vocab/topic_alpha.cfm * Japan ...disasters occurred in his time, however, and peasant protests rose to more than 50 per year during the 1780s. A great eruption of Mount Asama in 1783 was followed by a widespread famine during the Temmei era (1783-87), in which large numbers of people starved to death. ...www.britanica.net/EBchecked/topic/243191/Great-Disaster * A situation of extreme scarcity of food, potentially lead to widespread starvationwww.developmenteducation.ie/glossary/ * Significant lack of food1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/documents/glossary_en.html * Starvation brought about usually by a lack of rain.www.godonthe.net/dictionary/f.html * Food scarcity to the point of starvation for large numbers of people. Famine was a chronic problem in China, especially in the eighteenth andwww.questia.com/PM.qst * famines - Acute food shortages characterized by large-scale loss of life, social disruption, and economic chaos.highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070294267/student_view0/glossary_e-l.html * drastic, wide-reaching food shortageteachers2.wcs.edu/middle/gms/amies/Vocabulary/Among%20the%20Hidden/AH%20Vocabulary.doc
What is a extreme shortage of food?
Famine
What is famines?
an extreme shortage of food
What is a long period of extreme dryness and water shortage?
Drought
What is a famine?
A famine is an extreme shortage of food, caused by drought, crop failure, disaster, or overpopulation. Famines are often characterized by starvation, and by emigration or exodus (leaving the affected area) to find food.
What is the meaning of extreme food shortage within a region that starts with an f?
famine
What are some density independent factors in a tundra?
extreme weather shortage of food
A condition resulting from extreme dieting?
Calories
What is a common result of extreme dieting by people with a binge disorder?
death by starvation
What is a type of sailing ship that was the result of improvements in the 1840s?
whats an extreme shortage of food
What is a common result of extreme dieting by people with binge eating disorder?
death by starvation
What is an extreme food shortage of a long duration that affects all or mostof the population with a region?
a famine
