Resource Management Key Words - BASICS

Question 1

Agribusiness

Answer 1

Farms are run as businesses to produce as much food as possible

Question 2

Carbon footprint

Answer 2

The amount of carbon a person produces

Question 3

Demand

Answer 3

The need for something

i.e. rich people have a high demand for energy

Question 4

Economic wellbeing

Answer 4

Whether there is enough money and jobs for a good life

Question 5

Energy mix

Answer 5

The different types of energy a country uses for its needs.

Question 6

Food miles

Answer 6

The distance food travels to get from where it is made to who eats it

Question 7

Fracking

Answer 7

Getting gas from underground by forcing water into the ground.

Question 8

Import

Answer 8

Buy into a country

e.g. food is imported to the UK from abroad

Question 9

Local sourcing

Answer 9

Where food is bought from the local area, and not imported

Question 10

Organic

Answer 10

Grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides

Question 11

Scarcity/ Scarce

Answer 11

Not much of something

Question 12

Social wellbeing

Answer 12

How good the quality of life is

e.g. healthy, warm, safe

Question 13

Supply

Answer 13

Providing something

i.e. lots of rain brings a reliable supply of water

Question 14

Surplus

Answer 14

Having too much of something

e.g. the North West of England has a water surplus

Question 15

Water stress

Answer 15

When an area has a water deficit and does not have enough water

Question 16

Water transfer

Answer 16

Moving water from areas that have too much, to areas that don’t have enough

Question 17

Resource

Answer 17

Something that has value of purpose e.g. energy, food, water

Question 18

Deficit

Answer 18

Having not enough of something e.g. the South East of England has a water deficit