unit 3 - environmental sustainability

Question 1

Sustainability definition

Answer 1

The degree to which the Earth is able to provide the resources necessary to meet people’s needs

Question 2

Environmental stewardship

Answer 2

accepting the responsibility to make sure earth resources remain sustainable

Question 3

resource gap

Answer 3

gap between the resources earth can reasonably supply and what the people of the world consume

Question 4

how are nurdles harmful to the environment

Answer 4

• bacteria can adhere to them making them toxic
• people, animals and birds can confuse them for food or eggs
• can exist for generations
• they form large garbage piles in the ocean (great pacific garbage patch)

Question 5

Renewable energy sources (6)

Answer 5

• hydro (water)
• solar
• wind
• biomass
• geothermal
• tidal

Question 6

Non-renewable energy sources

Answer 6

• oil
• gas
• nuclear

Question 7

Kyoto protocol

Answer 7

• 1997 conference in Japan
• 141 counties including Canada signed
• goals: reduce GHG emission to 5.2% below 1990 levels by 2012.
• Canada set a goal of 6%
• Canada could not meet their goal and pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2011

Question 8

Paris Agreement

Answer 8

• 160 countries set their own targets for reducing emissions of GHG’s
• Goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre industrial times
• Canada’s goal: a 30% reduction in emissions from 2005-2030