Year 10 Section 2: Environmental and Medical issues

Question 1

Global Warming

Answer 1

The increase in temperature of Earth’s atmosphere (thought to be cause by the greenhouse effect)

Question 2

Natural Resources

Answer 2

Naturally occurring materials, such as oil and fertile land, which can be used by humans

Question 3

Conservation

Answer 3

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

Question 4

Creation

Answer 4

The art of creating the universe or the universe which has already been created

Question 5

Environment

Answer 5

The surroundings in which plants and animals live on and which they depend to live

Question 6

Stewardship

Answer 6

Looking after something so that it can be passed on to the next generation

Question 7

Artificial Insemmination

Answer 7

Injecting semen into the uterus by artificial means

Question 8

Embryo

Answer 8

A fertilised egg in the first eight weeks after conception

Question 9

Infertility

Answer 9

Not being able to have children

Question 10

IVF

Answer 10

The method of fertilising a human egg in a test tube

Question 11

Surrogacy

Answer 11

An arrangement where by a woman bears a child on behalf of another womanor where the an egg is fertilised by the man through IVF and then implanted in the woman’s uterus

Question 12

Organ Donation

Answer 12

Giving organs to be used in transplant surgery