Keywords

Question 1

What is a carbon footprint?

Answer 1

The amount of carbon dioxide produced by human activity within a country.

Question 2

Water stress?

Answer 2

Considers the balance between supply and damand of water.

Question 3

Water deflict?

Answer 3

When demand for water is greater than supply.

Question 4

Water surplus?

Answer 4

When supply of water is greater than demand.

Question 5

Grey water?

Answer 5

Re-using semi clean water to clean cars, and flushing the toilet.

Question 6

Energy mix?

Answer 6

Range of different sources from a country/community.

Question 7

Energy security?

Answer 7

Make sure energy can meet a damand for a population.

Question 8

Fracking disadvantages?

Answer 8

Release methane when burned and could contaminate water.

Question 9

How much water does fracking use?

Answer 9

8 million litres of water

Question 10

How much methane does fracking use?

Answer 10

Methane 25x (25 times more powerful than co2)

Question 11

What rock is used for fracking?

Answer 11

Shale rock.

Question 12

What does Abiotic mean?

Answer 12

All no living things in a ecosystem.

Question 13

What does biotic mean?

Answer 13

All the living things in an ecosystem.

Question 14

What is a biome?

Answer 14

A global scale ecosystem.

Question 15

What is a ecosystem?

Answer 15

The living and no living components of an area, and inter-relationships the exist between them.

Question 16

What does latitude mean?

Answer 16

How close you are to the equator.

Question 17

What does high latitude mean?

Answer 17

Away from the equator.

Question 18

What is a food chain?

Answer 18

Shows the transfer of energy between plants and animals (trophic level)

Question 19

Factors affecting ecosystem?

Answer 19

• global warming
• heatwave
• droughts
• deforestation
• flooding
• diseases

Question 20

Fluctuating?

Answer 20

Going up and down over time.

Question 21

What is a decomposer?

Answer 21

At the end of every chain:bacteria and fungi that break down or digest other organisms, to release water soluble nutrients.

Question 22

Trophic level 1?

Answer 22

Producers

Question 23

Organism?

Answer 23

A living thing (bacteria to whales)

Question 24

Producer?

Answer 24

An organism that creates its own food (usually plants using solar energy)

Question 25

A secondary consumer?

Answer 25

An organism that eats primary consumers (carnivores)

Question 26

What is katosol?

Answer 26

The name for the infertile iron rich soils of the tropical rainforest.

Question 27

Leaf litter?

Answer 27

A layer of soil which is made up of decomposing plants (eg leaves which have fallen on the ground)

Question 28

What is the structure of the rainforest?

Answer 28

Emergents
Main canopy
Under canopy
Shrub layer 
Forest floor

Question 29

What is a adaptation?

Answer 29

Features which allow plant/animals to survive their environment.

Question 30

What is biodiversity?

Answer 30

The range of plants and animals living in an ecosystem.