Climate Change- OPP

Question 1

What is sustainability?

Answer 1

Not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and supporting the environment long term.

Question 2

What are renewable resources?

Answer 2

A renewable resource is a substance that can be replaced in the same amount or less time as it takes to draw the supply down.

Question 3

What are non-renewable resources?

Answer 3

A nonrenewable resource is a resource that cannot be replaced as fast as it’s being consumed.

Question 4

What is climate change?

Answer 4

A change in global or climate patterns, attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric gases.

Question 5

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 5

The greenhouse effect is a the trapping of the sun’s warmth in Earth’s atmosphere. It is caused by heat-trapping gases in the air that trap energy from the sun.

Question 6

What are greenhouse gases?

Answer 6

Greenhouse gases are heat-trapping gases, that are the reason for the greenhouse effect . The most common greenhouse gases are water vapour, carbon dioxide, and methane.

Question 7

What are social impacts?

Answer 7

Social impacts is the effect something has on a community, and people’s daily lives
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Question 8

What are economic impacts?

Answer 8

Economic impacts are the effects that an event can have on economic factors such as interest rates, personal income, or employment.

Question 9

What is an environmental impact?

Answer 9

An environment impact is the effect something has on the environment. This effect could be created by an industry, natural disaster, or a project- anything that affects the environment.

Question 10

What is collective responsibility?

Answer 10

Collective responsibility is the responsibility of every member of a group without regard to an individual member’s participation in decision making
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Question 11

What is globalisation?

Answer 11

Globalisation is the process when businesses develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 12

What is subsistence?

Answer 12

Subsistence is when only enough food and other necessary items are obtained, without which, you wouldn’t be able to exist. Subsistence fishing is eating only enough fish to keep you alive.

Question 13

Who is responsible for climate change?

Answer 13

No one in particular is responsible for climate change. Even though some of the larger countries contribute more harmful gases into the atmosphere then the smaller ones, everyone emits pollution, so we should all be held responsible.

Question 14

What events can have an economic impact?

Answer 14

Events like supply shortages or natural disasters can have a significant economic impact due to the way that they affect business activities.

Question 15

What does FACKTS stand for?

Answer 15

Frame, Arrow, Colour, Key, Title, Scale

Question 16

How do you find the scale on the map?

Answer 16

Remember that Australia is 4000 kilometres across. From there measure and find out how many cm/mm across it is on the map (i.e if on the map it’s 2cm, then the scale would be 1cm= 2,000km). Scale the rest of the map accordingly.

Question 17

What did we learn about in Traditional Resource Use?

Answer 17

We learnt about Western Samoa and how their traditional fishing methods are damaging coral. They have now adapted their ways to ensure that they are not harming the coral by using a harpooning technique instead of one that involves breaking off coral.

Question 18

What did we learn in Sustainable Business?

Answer 18

We learnt about the firing industry and in particular, Tuna. Many companies are over fishing, meaning that there is less and less Tuna. The most tuna was caught tin international waters, because since there isn’t one country to govern it, it’s easier to illegally fish.

Question 19

What did we learn in Our Changing Climate (Greenhouse Effect)?

Answer 19

We learnt that the levels of carbon dioxide and other gases, are readily increasing, which is leading to the Greenhouse Effect. As Earth’s atmosphere warms up, so does the ice caps, which in turn leads to other problems such as a rise of sea level (flooding) and a rise of sea temperature (damaging marine life).

Question 20

What did we learn in Climate Change in the Pacific (case Study: Kiribati)?

Answer 20

We learnt that Pacific Nations are very vulnerable to climate change. The consequences of climate change (rise of sea level, rise of sea temp) affects the Pacific Nations the most as shown in flooding and receding land. In particular we focused on Kiribati and how they are faced with similar problems including cultural extinction.

Question 21

What did we learn in Climate Change in the Pacific (case Study: Projected Change in NZ)?

Answer 21

We learnt that, while NZ isn’t getting th most damage from climate change, it is still facing problems. We learnt that the whole of the North island has the same temperature while in the South Island, the further South, the hotter temperatures.