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By 2080 shifting temperatures may reduce bird habitat in N. America , which would affect how many bird species

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314

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Carbon remains in the atmosphere for how many years

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2000

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What % of world’s energy is consumed in cities

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75%

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What is the name of the number power station that would provide 7% of the uk’s electricity

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Hinkley point C

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What three approaches are there for radical tech

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Hydrogen fuel cells, electric car, carbon capture

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What % of deforestation occurs because of palm oil soy beef and paper

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50%

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What are two methods of deforestation

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Clear cutting and slash and burn

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How long is China’s three north shelterbelt project

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4500

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What is the purpose of China’s three north shelterbelt project

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To reduce desertification

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When did the biofuel rush occur in the American Midwest

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2007-2015

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How many hectares of natural grassland disappeared because of the American Midwest fuel rush

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5.5million

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The Amazon Basin is responsible for what % of the total terrestrial vegetation carbon store ?

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17%

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In the 2005 droughts, how much co2 was released from the Amazon basin

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5 billion tonnes

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How much money did Indonesia’s forest moratorium from the un and Norwegian government

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$1billion

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What % of the uk land was forested in 2016

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13%

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In Yukon, what was the % of the total ice cream that shrank between 1958 and 2008

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22%

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Inflows to the river Yukon has increased by what % since 2000

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39%

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18
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In what year was the Paris Climate agreement adopted

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2016

19
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How many countries agreed to the Paris climate agreement

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195

20
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How is the majority of carbon stored in the ocean

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Dissolved inorganic carbon

21
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How important is carbon in living organisms

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Second most abundant substance in living organisms behind water

22
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List reasons why human activity has affected the carbon cycle

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Burning fossil fuels deforestation and carbon sequestration

23
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What does energy mix mean

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The proportion of each primary energy resource a country uses per year / what energy types make up a country’s energy use

24
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Energy pathway?

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Flow of energy between the producer and consumer

25
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What is a choke point

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A narrow area which could easily be blocked or threatened, making energy price vulnerable to change

26
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How many years worth of coal does the uk have

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150

27
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What are the three reasons for increasing deforestation rates in Madagascar

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Expanding population, demand for hardwood and debt repayments

28
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Madagascar is the world’s primary supplier of what commodity

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Vanilla pods

29
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What gives coral it’s colour

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Algae

30
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How much faster has the average arctic temperature risen compared to the global average

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Twice as fast

31
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A rise of 1.5 degrees will put what percentage of species at risk of extinction

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20-30%

32
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How much of the global carbon is stored in soil

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20-30%

33
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By the end of the century, how is earth temperature expected to rise by

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4 degrees

34
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How much atmospheric CO2 increased by in the last 300 years

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4 degrees

35
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How much larger is the ocean as a carbon store than the atmosphere

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50 times larger

36
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What % of global carbon emissions comes from cement production

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6%

37
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What is a pentagram

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One pentagram , also known as a gigatonne is equal to a trillion kilograms or 1 billion tonnes

38
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How much less is Frances energy consumption compared to the USA’s

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One-tenth less

39
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In 2019, how much did the amount of power generated by coal fall by

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3%

40
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How long is the Nord Stream pipeline running from Russia to Germany

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1200km

41
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The Russian firm Gasprom exports what % of their natural gas to Europe

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80%

42
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How much of the world’s oil is moved by tankers travelling on fixed shipping routes ?

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50%

43
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OPEC is made up of how many countries

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12

44
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OPEC owns how much of the world’s oil reserves

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2/3

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