Resource security key terminology :)

Question 1

Resource exploitation

Answer 1

Using natural resources to the fullest/ most profitable use.

Question 2

Resource exploration

Answer 2

Searching an area with intention of finding and mapping natural resources.

Question 3

Resource development

Answer 3

Making a source accessible to buy and use.

Question 4

Uneven distribution

Answer 4

Concentration of some resources in certain areas - give national govs varying levels of territorial control over these.

Question 5

Resource

Answer 5

An aspect of natural environment that can be used to cover human needs. Must be economically viable to extract.

Question 6

What is RESOURCE SECURITY?

Answer 6

Ability of an organisation (on any scale e.g a country), to keep sustainable and reliable flows of resources to uphold and develop living standards.

Question 7

Define RESOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

Answer 7

Using resources in a responsible way so that it does not jeopardise future resource security and the environment.

Question 8

What is RESOURCE CONFLICT?

Answer 8

Disagreement over resources that can range from verbal to legal to tangible warfare forms.

Question 9

What are STOCK resources?

Answer 9

Resources that are FINITE.
Can be used up.
Fossil fuels e.g coal.

Question 10

What is a flow resource?

Answer 10

Renewable resources. Can be replaced. E.g solar energy.

Question 11

What are the 3 categories when assessing presence of a reserve?

Answer 11

Measured reserves
Indicated reserves
Inferred reserves.

Question 12

What is the difference between the types of categories used in assessing the presence of a reserve?

Answer 12

A MEASURED RESERVE is the most certain - a ‘confident estimation’ of quantity and quality of a reserve
MOST CERTAIN

An INDICATED RESERVE estimation that is confident - making it worthwhile to carry on evaluating economic viability of extracting the possible reserve.

An INFERRED RESERVE - Knowledge surrounding quantity, grade and quality is limited - may be inaccurate. LEAST CERTAIN.

Question 13

What are ‘POSSIBLE RESOURCES’?

Answer 13

knowledge of areas that may have reserves that would be economically viable to explore in the future.

Question 14

What is a RESOURCE FRONTIER?

Answer 14

A newly colonised region that has recently discovered a resource and extracting it for the first time.
Scotland is a resource frontier for England.

Question 15

What is a RESOURCE PEAK?

Answer 15

When max production rate of a source is followed by a decline.
Varies at different scales (global to regional).

Question 16

What does EIA stand for?

Answer 16

Environmental Impact Assessment.

Question 17

What is an EIA?

Answer 17

Evaluation of possible ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL consequences of a proposed resource project.
Usually accessible to the general public.
Helps involved organisations to reach a balanced arrangement.

Question 18

What is the definition for ‘pattern of production’?

Answer 18

Distribution of where resources are produced.
Distribution is often uneven.

Question 19

What is the ‘pattern of consumption’?

Answer 19

Distribution of where resources are consumed or used.
Often uneven at various scales.

Question 20

Define ‘geopolitics’

Answer 20

A study looking at how International relations that are shaped by geographical factors.
Physical landscape,
Migration,
History :)

Question 21

What are mineral ores?

Answer 21

sought after element that is found in a high concentration in a rock. It can be extracted.
e,g COPPER ORE

Question 22

What is a primary energy resource?

Answer 22

Energy sources in raw state e.g oil, wind.
Unusable for energy unless mechanical action or heat is added.

Question 23

What is the most sought after mineral?

Answer 23

Copper!

Question 24

What is a SECONDARY ENERGY RESOURCE?

Answer 24

Primary energy resources that is converted into manufactured sources e.g petrol, electricity.

Question 25

Define ‘NUCLEAR WASTE’:

Answer 25

A by-product from the generation of nuclear power.
It is hazardous, expensive and difficult to get rid of safely.

Question 26

Define ACID RAIN:

Answer 26

Rain that is environmentally harmful and has an acid PH.
Formed by SULFUR DIOXIDE and NITROGEN OXIDE when they react with the water molecules in the atmosphere.