Resource Management General (26th April)

Question 1

What does Resource mean?

Answer 1

Resource- stock or supply of something that has value or a purpose. 3 most important resources are food, energy and water.

Question 2

What does Undernutrition/malnutrition mean?

Answer 2

Undernutrition/malnourishment- A poorly balanced diet lacking in minerals and vitamins.

Malnourishment- is when you don’t consume a sufficient number of calories per day.
Undernutrition- is a poorly balanced diet, which lacks in minerals and vitamins.

Question 3

What does Carbon Footprint mean?

Answer 3

Carbon Footprint- The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Question 4

What does Organic produce mean?

Answer 4

Organic produce- Food grown without the use of chemicals

Question 5

What does water surplus mean?

Answer 5

water surplus- Where water exceeds demand.

Question 6

What does water deficit mean?

Answer 6

water deficit- Where water demand exceeds water supply.

Question 7

What does water stress mean?

Answer 7

water stress- Where demand exceeds supply. This is experienced in more than 50% of England where areas are densely populated and have lowest amounts of annual rainfall.

Question 8

What does Grey Water mean?

Answer 8

Grey Water- waste water from people’s homes that can be recycled and put to good use (irrigation of food).
Almost 50% of the UK’s water is used domestically, but 21% is wasted through leakage.

Question 9

What does Water Transfer mean?

Answer 9

Water Transfer- The transfer of water on a large scale across the UK where water demand is needed.

Question 10

What does Energy Conservation mean?

Answer 10

Energy Conservation- reducing energy consumption by using less energy and existing sources more efficiently.

Question 11

What does Energy Security mean?

Answer 11

Energy Security- The increasing demand of the UK’s energy coming from abroad. UK is increasingly becoming more dependent on imported energy, e.g. Russia.

Question 12

What does Fracking mean?

Answer 12

Fracking- Natural gas trapped in rocks underground that are extracted with the use of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure. They frack the gas from shale rock. This has created many conflicts in England, in particular the arguments about earthquakes and pollution.

Question 13

Why does the UK import so much food?

Answer 13

• UK-produced food can be expensive because of poor harvests and the price of animal feed.
• Availability of cheaper food from abroad imported by supermarkets who compete for low prices.
• Demand for greater choice and more exotic foods.
• Demand for seasonal produce, all-year round such as strawberries and apples.
• UK climate is unsuitable for the production of some foods, like cocoa, tea and bananas.

Question 14

Why are there more resources in HICs than in LICs?

Answer 14

• Colonisation
• Can afford to import resources
• HICs have better technology
• HICs have more power
• LICs have back rock type
• Exploitation
• Demand for resources is higher- technological. innovation + mechanisation.

Question 15

What is Agribusiness?

Answer 15

Agribusiness- Intensive farming aimed at maximising the amount of food. Farms are run as commercial businesses. They have high levels of investment and use modern technology + chemicals.

Question 16

What are the pros and cons of agribusiness and is it sustainable?

Answer 16

Pros- lots of job opportunities
Cons- massive carbon footprint
Sustainable? No, big amount of CO2 produced and animals die due to large amount of chemical intake.

Question 17

What is energy insecure?

Answer 17

Energy insecurity- a country is reliant on another country for its energy.

Question 18

What is energy surplus?

Answer 18

energy surplus- a country that has plentiful supply.

Question 19

What is energy deficit?

Answer 19

Energy deficit-a country that does not have enough energy to meet its demands.

Question 20

What region has the highest potential to supply energy in the future?

Answer 20

The arctic circle.

Question 21

What are the main economic and environmental costs and impacts associated with exploiting oil and gas from the Arctic?

Answer 21

• Drilling Equipment may sink during summer thaw- so you have to buy new equipment- this is expensive.
• Strict Environmental controls are needed to prevent damage.

Question 22

How can energy insecurity have potential for conflict?

Answer 22

-Shortages pf energy can lead to political conflict when 1 state holds a bigger share pf an energy resource. E.g., Russia controls 25% of the world’s natural gas supplies. it could put pressure on its customers, mostly Western Europe, by raising prices or even cutting off supplies.

Question 23

Describe Iceland’s energy supplies and its plans for the future:

Answer 23

• Iceland uses geothermal power station, energy supplies.
• Due to tectonic activity, volcanoes create hot steam which turns turbines, which produce electricity of over 300 mega watts.
• They also use hydroelectric power.

-Iceland plan to make an underwater cable to Europe (gas pipelines for gas, ports for oil, terminals for gas in liquid form)-this will cause price fluctuations and political tensions.