Geography

Question 1

What is net worth of Apple

Answer 1

880 billion

Question 2

Where are head quarters of Apple and what tax do they pay

Answer 2

Cork ireland = 12.5% tax

Question 3

What did Apple promise in 2020?

Answer 3

That they are carbon neutral

Question 4

How much have apple invested into green climate bond?

Answer 4

1.5 billion

Question 5

Where does the manufacturing of apple products take place?

Answer 5

Foxcom and pegatron

Question 6

Where are the raw materials for apple extracted from ?

Answer 6

Many places including indonisea from legal
and ilegal mines

Question 7

Where is apple waste sent and what problems occur here?

Answer 7

Ghana , causes health problems e.g cancer

Question 8

Who are the top exporters of bananas?

Answer 8

Equador
Phillipeans
Columbia
costa rica

Question 9

How are the top importers of bananas?

Answer 9

Europe
Us
Chile

Question 10

Who are the top producers of bananas and why aren’t they the top exporter’s?

Answer 10

India
China
Indonesia
Lots are consumed on local scale

Question 11

What are the 2/large TNCS involved in banana production?

Answer 11

Chiquita
Del monte

Question 12

What % of price paid for a banana goes to the HIC (TNCS) and what % goes to producers?

Answer 12

85% to hic
5-9% to workers

Question 13

What is an environmental issue associated with bananas?

Answer 13

30kg of chemicals per hectar per year

Question 14

What are the 4 stages in the international scale to evaluate resources?

Answer 14

Possible resources
Inferred resources
Indicates reserves
Measured reserves

Question 15

What is a resource frontier?

Answer 15

a places with resources being exploited for first time as it had been made economically viable also made possible to new tech

Question 16

What are 3 water sources

Answer 16

Abstraction from surfaces resources
Desalination
Aquifer abstraction

Question 17

What are strategies to increase water supply?

Answer 17

Water diversion
Water catchment
water storage
Desalination

Question 18

What was the aim of the china south to north water transfer project?

Answer 18

Divert water from wetter south ( yangtze river) to drier north ( yellow river)

Question 19

How much water does it divert?

Answer 19

45 billion cubic metres

Question 20

How much did the project cost?

Answer 20

62 billion

Question 21

What are some environmental impacts of the china s to n scheme

Answer 21

Danjankou dam floods land and water quality is reducing

Question 22

What inequality of water are there in the Israel Palestine water conflict?

Answer 22

Israel have 80% controll of water supply
Israel have over 300L of water per person but palestine have only 73L of water per person

Question 23

Where do Israel and Palestine get there water supply from?

Answer 23

River Jordan , aquifers and 50 % desalination

Question 24

Water are natural reasons for water stress here?

Answer 24

70% rainful is evaporated

Question 25

Why are locals in petorca chile deprived of water?

Answer 25

Chiles water code in 1981 allowed wealthy mining companies to divert water away from locals
Tncs given preferential water access

Question 26

Why is there water conflict at river nile ( human factors)

Answer 26

95% Egyptians live around nile
1 million die of drought and famine in ethiopia every year

Question 27

Where is athabasca tar sands located

Answer 27

Alberta canada around 141000 km of boreal forest and peat bogs

Question 28

what unconventional method is used to get enery from the tar sands

Answer 28

Bitumen extraction

Question 29

How much ceude oil does alberta produce?

Answer 29

1 million barrels every day

Question 30

Problems with copper mining

Answer 30

Produces contaminated waste water
processing copper requires large amounts of energy
Requires lots of water
Release sulphur dioxide ( acid rain)

Question 31

How much copper does grasber mine produce ?

Answer 31

230,000 tonnes a day