Geography OCR A Level: Topic 2 - Earth's Life Support Systems (strategies to manage TRF and Tundra)

Question 1

What/ where is BAP?

Answer 1

Biodiversity Action Plan. Protect and restore species and habitats In Canada and Russia.

Question 2

Name 2 examples of govs tryna limit emissions:

Answer 2

Kyoto Protocol
COP 26
Both attempting to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system by lowering emissions.

Question 3

Explain and gimme sum stats which highlight the importance of Bristol Bay given that it is a nature reserve declared by WWF.

Answer 3

Biden recently rebanned oil and gas offshore drilling here.
Home to 37 million salmon per year and 31 Native Alaskan villages. 12,000 jobs for fishermen as well and bare dough for commercial fisherman.

Question 4

Arctic Council ‘09. Explain please:

Answer 4

Not legally binding. Basically recommendations. Main priority is preventing oil spills.

Question 5

Pipeline management. Okay yeh calm but like give some examples tho me brudda.

Answer 5

• Refrigerated supports (used on da Trans-Alaska pipeline).
• Insulated ice and gravel pads; i.e. putting roads and other infrastructure on these pads to prevent melting.
• Elevated pipelines.
• More powerful computers can detect oil and gas; less need for exploratory drilling.
• Heavily insulated pipes at water depths of 6.5-65 feet.

All of the above have the primary purpose of preventing permafrost from thawing.

Question 6

Management strategies gimme 3!

Answer 6

• don’t drill (rah I know it’s simple but you can acc put this in the exam it’s mad)
• don’t drill but instead remove the insulating vegetation and let permafrost melt itself (long process obvs = drawback), and afterwards can pop some coarse material in as a more stable replacement
• preserve perma; pragmatic choice - thawing perma = significant costs due to infrastructure damage