Resource Management

Question 1

What is the Cost of Living Crisis?

Answer 1

When the cost of essential resources goes up to higher prices.

Question 2

What are examples of fossil fuels?

Answer 2

Oil , Coal and Natural Gas

Question 3

What are examples of renewable energy sources?

Answer 3

Wind Energy, Biomass, Solar Energy, Hydroelectricity, Geothermal, Tidal

Question 4

What is Virtual Water?

Answer 4

Water that is not directly used by a consumer but in a product that we use?

Question 5

What are calories?

Answer 5

The energy content of food

Question 6

What is the disease of affluence?

Answer 6

When you can afford a lot of bad food which leads to malnourishment.

Question 7

What is undernourishment?

Answer 7

When you have insufficient food to be healthy causing starvation.

Question 8

What is Malnourishment?

Answer 8

Eating wrongly such as too low or too high in nutrients.

Question 9

What is consumer demand?

Answer 9

What customers want to buy/see in the shops

Question 10

What is Out-of-Season?

Answer 10

Food that only grows at certain times of year

Question 11

What is Exotic food?

Answer 11

Food that cannot be grown in the UK.

Question 12

What are Food Miles?

Answer 12

The distance food travels from producer to consumer.

Question 13

What is Carbon Footprint?

Answer 13

The amount of greenhouse gases and particular activity produces.

Question 14

What is Local Food?

Answer 14

Food that is consumed within 100 miles of where it is produced.

Question 15

What is Agribusiness?

Answer 15

Treating food production as a large business.

Question 16

What is Organic Food?

Answer 16

Food that is grown without chemicals

Question 17

What is Seasonal Food?

Answer 17

Food that can only be grown in particular seasons.

Question 18

What is water surplus?

Answer 18

Areas that have more water than they need.

Question 19

What is Water Deficit?

Answer 19

Areas that do not have enough water for their population.

Question 20

What is water transfer?

Answer 20

The moving of water from areas of surplus to areas of deficit.

Question 21

What is a fatberg?

Answer 21

A rock-like mass of waste matter found in sewers formed by the combination of unflushed non-biodegradable solids, such as wet wipes, sanitary products and fat desposits.

Question 22

What are Point Sources?

Answer 22

Sources that come from an easily identified place.

Question 23

What are Non-point sources?

Answer 23

Sources that come from a wide area making the source hard to identify.

Question 24

What is Eutrophication?

Answer 24

When nutrients wash into rivers causing an algal bloom to grow which is both toxic and blocks out sunlight so the water course becomes biologically dead.

Question 25

What is Fracking?

Answer 25

When you drill a hole deep into rock before injecting a mixture of sand and water at high pressure into rock to release shale gas

Question 26

What is Food Security?

Answer 26

When all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life

Question 27

What is Food Insecurity?

Answer 27

The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food

Question 28

What is Desertification?

Answer 28

The expansion of the Sahara desert leaving land that can no longer be farmed.

Question 29

What is the Sahel?

Answer 29

The region to the South of the Sahara Desert. It is susceptible to desertification.

Question 30

What is Overgrazing?

Answer 30

Excessive grazing of animals causing damage to grassland

Question 31

What is Over-Cultivation?

Answer 31

Excessive growing of crops so that soil quality is degraded and productivity is reduced.

Question 32

What is Humus?

Answer 32

The organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms.

Question 33

What is Famine?

Answer 33

Extreme scarcity of food.

Question 34

What is Afforestation?

Answer 34

When you plant trees in order to hold the soil together stopping wind erosion.

Question 35

What is Contraception?

Answer 35

When you reduce population pressure upon theland so less food needs to be grown.

Question 36

What are Water Butts?

Answer 36

Things that are used to capture rain in wet season for irrigating the land in the dry season.

Question 37

What are Cash Crops?

Answer 37

Crops which are sold for profit.

Question 38

What are aeroponics?

Answer 38

When plants are dangled in the air, nutrients are sprayed onto the roots of the plants every few minutes which means they grow quickly

Question 39

What are hydroponics?

Answer 39

Plants which are grown in water. The nutrients of the plants are in a nutrient rich water bath throughout their lifespan.

Question 40

What is Flood irrigation?

Answer 40

When fields are flooded in a controlled way by using pumps, canals or small dams.

Question 41

What is Cross Breeding?

Answer 41

Produce by mating two different species with desirable qualities.

Question 42

What is High Yield Varieties?

Answer 42

Seeds which can produce up to 10 times more crops than regular seeds on the same area of land

Question 43

What is the Green Revolution?

Answer 43

A large increase in crop production in developing countries in 1960s by using fertilisers, pesticides and high yield varieties

Question 44

What is Holistic?

Answer 44

To look at the whole process as one rather than just the final outcome.

Question 45

What is a Marginal Area?

Answer 45

Areas where it is difficult to grow crops