6.1- Resource Mangement Flashcards

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What are biotic recourses?

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Living resourses obtained from the biosphere

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What are abiotic recourses?

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Not living resources that are obtained from the lithosphere

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What are renewable resources?

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Resources that are potentially inexhaustible and will never run out

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What are non renewable rescourses

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Recourses that cannot be remade because it would take millions of years

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Why could oil consumption lead to conflict?

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It is it high demand and is finite to will run out soon

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6
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What are the advantages of wind energy?

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Low cost
Fast growing resource
Accounts for 3% of global energy

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What are the disadvantages of wind energy?

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Offshore wind farms require expensive transmission lines

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What are the advantages of coal?

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It is cheap

Coal is universally used around the world allready so there isn’t a start up cost for producing energy

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What are the disadvantages of coal?

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Coal forms co2 when burned and leads to global warming

Mining impacts the surrounding area

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What is an energy mix?

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The proportion of different energy sources used by a country

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Why is India’s energy demand high in coal?

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It has to supply energy to 1.2 billion people and it has huge coal fields and oil reserves

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Why does Iceland use geothermal energy?

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It only has a population of 320,000 people and doesn’t have any foossik fulesm importing them is expensive so it uses geothermal energy instead

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How are tar sands in Canada being exploited?

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Extracting oil from the ground using natural gas

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What is the impact of tar sands in Canada being exploited?

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Broken pipelines leave humans exposed to hard chemicals

Large volumes of water are wasted

Vegetation has to be cleared which causes causes abloss if habitats

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What is fracking? UK

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Drilling down into shale rocks and then injecting fracking fluid to extract natural gas

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What are the impacts of fracking?

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Cheaper fuel
Subsidence in houses
It creates lots of dirty freshwater which can damage ecosystems

17
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What is nuclear energy?

A

Power plants produce heat which drives turbines and produces electrical energy

18
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What are the impacts of nuclear energy?

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Change of natural disasters like Chernobyl or fukushima

Waste products are highly reactive and need to be stored for many many years which is expensive