homework questions

Question 1

What is food insecurity ?

Answer 1

When people don’t have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food

Question 2

When a country doesn’t have enough food it is called…

Answer 2

Food deficit

Question 3

Low-tech strategies to increase food supply are called…

Answer 3

Appropriate technology

Question 4

“Applying water to land in order to supply crops and other plants with necessary water” is the definition for…

Answer 4

Irrigation

Question 5

What is it called when people don’t revive enough nutrients ?

Answer 5

Undernutrition

Question 6

“The measure of a person’s economic and social wellbeing” is the definition for…

Answer 6

Quality of life

Question 7

What is renewable energy ?

Answer 7

Energy that will not run out (example- wind)

Question 8

What is the definition for resource ?

Answer 8

A stock or supply of something that has a value or purpose

Question 9

What is non-renewable energy ?

Answer 9

Energy that will run out (example- coal)

Question 10

True or false ? The UK’s energy mix is increasingly composed of renewables

Answer 10

True

Question 11

“The amount of resources that are used by a person, place or country” is the definition for…

Answer 11

Resource consumption

Question 12

What is the name of plants that grow on the surface of other vegetation, taking moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water and debris around it ?

Answer 12

Epiphytes

Question 13

Why are the four layers of the rainforest?

Answer 13

Forrest floor, undercanopy, canopy, emergent layer

Question 14

True or false ? High temperatures cause rapid transfer of nutrients through decomposition in the tropical rainforest

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or false? Soils in the tropical rainforest are not very fertile

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or false? Soils in the tropical rainforest are not very fertile

Answer 16

True

Question 17

What are tropical rainforests located along the equator?

Answer 17

Low pressure causes high temperatures and rainfall all year

Question 18

What are tropical rainforests located along the equator?

Answer 18

Low pressure causes high temperatures and rainfall all year

Question 19

What are the three stores of the nutrient cycle called ?

Answer 19

Biomass, litter, soil

Question 20

What is the name of the model that showed the flows and stores of nutrients in an ecosystem?

Answer 20

Nutrient cycle

Question 21

What is the name of the process whereby water removes nutrients from soil?

Answer 21

Leaching

Question 22

Which country in east Africa suffered a famine in 2023 ?

Answer 22

Somalia

Question 23

What is the goal of an agribusiness?

Answer 23

To maximise yields and minimise costs

Question 24

What does surplus mean ?

Answer 24

More of something than you need .

Question 25

What is energy security?

Answer 25

The reliability and stability of a country’s energy supply

Question 26

What does deficient mean ?

Answer 26

Less of something you need

Question 27

HIC

Answer 27

High income county

Question 28

What is organic farming ?

Answer 28

Farming without the use of chemicals

Question 29

Which strategy is improving food supply refers to growing food in a mist environment without soil ?

Answer 29

Aeroponics

Question 30

How is the Bangladesh rice-farming scheme economically sustainable?

Answer 30

Dish can be sold to provide farmers with an income

Question 31

What do water transfers schemes do ?

Answer 31

Move water form areas of surplus to areas of deficit

Question 32

Which country uses rice-fish farming as a sustainable food strategy?

Answer 32

Bangladesh

Question 33

LIC

Answer 33

Low income county

Question 34

What are the reasons that demand for food is increasing globally?

Answer 34

Population growth and development

Question 35

NEE

Answer 35

Newly emerging economy

Question 36

How do tropical rainforests help reduce global worming

Answer 36

Absorb CO2 and sire it for many years

Question 37

What are the two types of crust ?

Answer 37

Oceanic and continental

Question 38

What are the three cells in the global atmospheric circulation model ?

Answer 38

Hadley Ferral Polar

Question 39

Between which latitude are most tropical storms located ?

Answer 39

5-15

Question 40

Name the force that causes tropical storm to spin

Answer 40

Coriolis effect

Question 41

Name the tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging or coming together and oceanic plate is subducted

Answer 41

Destructive

Question 42

Name the tectonic plate margin where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart

Answer 42

Constructive

Question 43

What is the life expectancy in Dharavi ?

Answer 43

60 ( average 69)

Question 44

Is there high or low pressure on the equator?

Answer 44

Low