Geography Flashcards
What is net worth of Apple
880 billion
Where are head quarters of Apple and what tax do they pay
Cork ireland = 12.5% tax
What did Apple promise in 2020?
That they are carbon neutral
How much have apple invested into green climate bond?
1.5 billion
Where does the manufacturing of apple products take place?
Foxcom and pegatron
Where are the raw materials for apple extracted from ?
Many places including indonisea from legal
and ilegal mines
Where is apple waste sent and what problems occur here?
Ghana , causes health problems e.g cancer
Who are the top exporters of bananas?
Equador
Phillipeans
Columbia
costa rica
How are the top importers of bananas?
Europe
Us
Chile
Who are the top producers of bananas and why aren’t they the top exporter’s?
India
China
Indonesia
Lots are consumed on local scale
What are the 2/large TNCS involved in banana production?
Chiquita
Del monte
What % of price paid for a banana goes to the HIC (TNCS) and what % goes to producers?
85% to hic
5-9% to workers
What is an environmental issue associated with bananas?
30kg of chemicals per hectar per year
What are the 4 stages in the international scale to evaluate resources?
Possible resources
Inferred resources
Indicates reserves
Measured reserves
What is a resource frontier?
a places with resources being exploited for first time as it had been made economically viable also made possible to new tech
What are 3 water sources
Abstraction from surfaces resources
Desalination
Aquifer abstraction
What are strategies to increase water supply?
Water diversion
Water catchment
water storage
Desalination
What was the aim of the china south to north water transfer project?
Divert water from wetter south ( yangtze river) to drier north ( yellow river)
How much water does it divert?
45 billion cubic metres
How much did the project cost?
62 billion
What are some environmental impacts of the china s to n scheme
Danjankou dam floods land and water quality is reducing
What inequality of water are there in the Israel Palestine water conflict?
Israel have 80% controll of water supply
Israel have over 300L of water per person but palestine have only 73L of water per person
Where do Israel and Palestine get there water supply from?
River Jordan , aquifers and 50 % desalination
Water are natural reasons for water stress here?
70% rainful is evaporated
Why are locals in petorca chile deprived of water?
Chiles water code in 1981 allowed wealthy mining companies to divert water away from locals
Tncs given preferential water access
Why is there water conflict at river nile ( human factors)
95% Egyptians live around nile
1 million die of drought and famine in ethiopia every year
Where is athabasca tar sands located
Alberta canada around 141000 km of boreal forest and peat bogs
what unconventional method is used to get enery from the tar sands
Bitumen extraction
How much ceude oil does alberta produce?
1 million barrels every day
Problems with copper mining
Produces contaminated waste water
processing copper requires large amounts of energy
Requires lots of water
Release sulphur dioxide ( acid rain)
How much copper does grasber mine produce ?
230,000 tonnes a day
