7.8 : Sustainable Development (Pgs. 505-511)

Question 1

Sustainability

Answer 1

Using the earth’s resources without doing permanent damage to the environment.

Question 2

Sustainable Development

Answer 2

Addresses problems caused by depletion of natural resources, mass consumption of goods, pollution of air and water, and the impact of climate change.

Question 3

Ecological Footprint

Answer 3

Impact on the environment.

Question 4

^ Causes of pollution

Answer 4

• Natural events
• Mix of human and natural events
• Completely human events.

Question 5

^ Impact of pollution

Answer 5

Caused 16 percent of deaths worldwide. Pollution strains the economies of countries by increasing health care costs and causing people to miss school and work because they are ill or taking care of someone who is.

Question 6

^ Efforts to control pollution

Answer 6

The solution was to force every company to reduce emissions. Clean Air Act 1970.

Question 7

Climate change

Answer 7

Rise in temperature contributed to more frequent and more destructive wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and droughts.

Question 8

Ecotourism

Answer 8

Travel to a region by people who are interested in its distinctive and unusual ecosystem.

Question 9

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Answer 9

Intended to finish the job that the MDGs had begun, but with more awareness of environmental challenges and ways to overcome them.

Question 10

^ Argentina and South Korea - changing economies

Answer 10

Argentina suffered periods of massive inflation, military dictatorships, and heavy foreign debt. The economy collapsed in the 1990s form which the country is still trying to recover.
Korea has been a success story of modern economic development. Its levels of health, wealth, and education rank it as a core state, with about 2 percent of its population involved in primary activities and about 40 percent in secondary activities.