Fill in the Blanks Food for the future VOCOnline version Test your vocabulary practice of the unit in the lab. by Atenas Leticia García Gámez 1 continents varieties seed famine scale historic stored banks crop Today , there are about 1 , 400 seed banks around the world . These keep seed from all safe in the event of a large - global crisis , such as a . One of the largest banks lies inside a mountain in Spitbergen , just 1 , 300 km from the North Pole . This is a backup for all the world's other seed . In 1996 , director Cary Fowler commented that the seed bank's opening " marks a turning point in safe guarding the world's diversity . " Billions of seeds are now kept there . They are in a permanently chilled , eathquake - free zone 120 meters above sea level . This should allow seeds to remain high and dry , even if the polar ice caps melt .
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