War

Question 1

Causes of war

Answer 1

environmental (resources, oil middle east, minerals congo), economic, religion (palestine/israel

Question 1

costs of war

Answer 1

space to build camps, people, food, build weapons

Question 2

largest military spender

Answer 2

USA, then china

Question 3

direct costs

Answer 3

habitat loss, waste, pollution, animals, unexploded bombs

Question 4

habitat loss

Answer 4

ecosystems lost to building camps, nuclear most damaging, bombs in sea which damaged corals

Question 5

waste

Answer 5

waste from weapons/people, USA used to dump waste in sea now they incinerate

Question 6

pollution

Answer 6

weapons cause air/ocean pollution, cause diseases

Question 7

animals

Answer 7

can either force animals out (bison ww1), or help (protected fisheries in ww2 due to unexploded bombs)

Question 8

unexploded bombs

Answer 8

mainly in africa, affects wildlife

Question 9

indirect costs

Answer 9

farming, migration

Question 10

farming

Answer 10

landslides from bombs can damage farms

Question 11

migration

Answer 11

force people out so no one can fill jobs and economy declines

Question 12

vegetation control vietnam

Answer 12

used chemicals to make space for military camps/control vegetation

Question 13

operation ranchhand

Answer 13

vietnam war, used herbicides to damage enemy cover, used agent orange as main one (caused birth defects etc)

Question 14

types of herbicides

Answer 14

agent orange (worst, damaged fruit trees), agent blue (damaged rice)

Question 15

impacts

Answer 15

contaminated soil, got into food chain, contaminated military camps

Question 16

policies

Answer 16

geneva convention, said people should respect environment and not to destroy dams/nuclear stations, but large nations UK/USA have not signed