Resources And Sustainability

Question 1

Resources

Answer 1

Things a country can use such minerals, fish, timber (also Human Resources, financial resources)

Question 2

Natural resources

Answer 2

Resources which come from nature and are not man-made.

Question 3

Renewable resources

Answer 3

Can replenish/replace themselves eg trees.

Question 4

Non-renewable resources

Answer 4

Can only be used once and do not replace themselves eg coal.

Question 5

Depletion

Answer 5

Reducing by a large amount so that there is not enough left.

Question 6

Poaching

Answer 6

Catching wildlife or marine life illegally.

Question 7

Black market

Answer 7

Illegal buyers/sellers who buy/sell goods that have been poached.

Question 8

Vulnerable

Answer 8

Able to be harmed easily (verge of becoming extinct)

Question 9

Desertification

Answer 9

When soil becomes so infertile that nothing will grow in it.

Question 10

Soil erosion

Answer 10

The removal of soil by natural forces such as wind and rain.

Question 11

Sustainable development

Answer 11

Development that meets the needs of the present in such a way that the future generations will still benefit from development.

Question 12

Carrying capacity

Answer 12

Maximum number of animals per hectare that a piece of land can support.

Question 13

Organic

Answer 13

Farming without substances like pesticides and weed killers.

Question 14

Bio-degradable

Answer 14

Substances that can be broken down into natural substances without harming the environment.

Question 15

Carbon footprint

Answer 15

The amount of carbon an individual, business or country produce over time.

Question 16

Food security

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Genetic modification

Answer 17

Changing the genes of plants by cross pollinating.

Question 18

What is used to determine carbon footprint?

Answer 18

The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide.

Question 19

What is used to determine your carbon footprint?

Answer 19

The sum of all emissions of carbon dioxide, which were induced by your activities in a given time frame. Usually a carbon footprint is calculated for the time period of a year.

Question 20

What are some examples of natural resources?

Answer 20

Minerals, soil, forests, fish stocks, wildlife etc.

Question 21

When does development occur?

Answer 21

Not only just because a country has resources, it depends on how well they use them.

Question 22

What are examples of renewable resources?

Answer 22

Sun, wind, wood

Question 23

Why is wood a renewable resource?

Answer 23

A new tree can be planted to replace the one cut down.

Question 24

What does unwise use of resources mean?

Answer 24

Using them too rapidly or wastefully.

Question 25

What is over-exploitation?

Answer 25

When resources are being used up very quickly.

Question 26

What does over-exploitation cause?

Answer 26

Depletion of resources eg overfishing.

Question 27

Overfishing (3)

Answer 27

Large quantities caught
Numbers depleted
Not enough fish to reproduce

Question 28

What are reasons for overfishing? (3)

Answer 28

Increase in the population, new fishing techniques and poaching.

Question 29

What is poached in South Africa?

Answer 29

Abalone and lobster are sold on the black market by organized criminal gangs.

Question 30

What are the effects of over-fishing? (2)

Answer 30

Industries collapse and jobs are lost.
Certain species of fish become vulnerable eg codshark, blue fin tuna.

Question 31

What do regulations limit?

Answer 31

The number of boats that can go to sea and the amount of time they can spend fishing.

Question 32

What limits the number of fish that can be caught?

Answer 32

Catch limits or quotas.

Question 33

What are the three colour coded lists fish have been classified into?

Answer 33

Green, orange red?

Question 34

What is the green classification of fish?

Answer 34

Most sustainable choice from healthiest and best managed populations.

Question 35

What is the orange classification of fish?

Answer 35

Species is depleted from overfishing and cannot sustain current fishing pressure.

Question 36

What is the red classification of fish?

Answer 36

Includes unsustained species and illegal species to sell.

Question 37

How can you lower your carbon footprint?

Answer 37

By walking, cycling, public transport etc.

Question 38

What is a carbon audit?

Answer 38

A way that businesses can see how much they have reduced their carbon footprint by.

Question 39

How can businesses reduce their carbon footprint? (3)

Answer 39

Growing food and serving locally produced food.
Composting organic waste and recycling.
Using alternative energy eg solar.

Question 40

What is the worlds population?

Answer 40

Over 7 billion

Question 41

What is food security?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

What else does food security mean?

Answer 42

They have physical and economic access to food that meets both their dietary needs and their food preferences.

Question 43

What can food security be threatened by? (3)

Answer 43

Natural causes eg floods, frost, hail, storms, drought.
Diseases in plants and animals.
Peoples activities such as overfishing.

Question 44

What is the biggest threat to global food security?

Answer 44

Climate change.

Question 45

What will climate change affect for global food security? (5)

Answer 45

Where crops can be grown.
What crops can be grown.
Where livestock can live.
Carrying capacity of land - livestock numbers.
Sea temperature and survival of fish stocks.