Chapter 4 - Stewardship

Question 1

What are the 4 Rs?

Answer 1

Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Repair

Question 2

What is a carbon number?

Answer 2

Amount of greenhouse gases each person produces each year

Question 3

Where can you bring waste to recycle it?

Answer 3

Bring banks

Question 4

What can you bring to bring banks?

Answer 4

Paper 
Glass
Plastic
Cardboard
Clothes
Batteries
Electrical equipment

Question 5

What is incineration?

Answer 5

The burning of waste under controlled conditions

Question 6

What department is responsible for care of the environment?

Who is the minister?

Answer 6

The department of communications, climate action and the environment
Denis naughten

Question 7

What is the green schools programme?

Answer 7

Aims to encourage schools and their pupils to take an active role in looking after the environment

Question 8

Name a national park

Answer 8

Killarney national park

Question 9

What is the green party?

Answer 9

Political party in Ireland and around the world that place emphasis on the environment

Question 10

What is climate change?

Answer 10

The planet is increasingly heating up due to the burning of fossil fuels

Question 11

What problems does climate change cause?

Answer 11

Drought
Famine
Rising sea levels
Floods

Question 12

Name some conference/agreements relating to global warming and climate change

Answer 12

The Bali agreement 2007
The Kyoto Protocol 1997
The UN General Assembly Summit on Climate Change 2009

Question 13

Name some challenges to the environment

Answer 13

Oil spill- the Gulf of Mexico
Radioactive pollution- Chernobyl
Rainforest reduction- Amazon
Disappearing seas- the Aural Sea