Resource management

Question 1

What are re the three main resources?

Answer 1

Food, water and energy

Question 2

Why does the UK import so much food? Positives

Answer 2

• food from abroad is cheaper
• farmers from poorer countries can get money
• food in the Uk is seasonal
• we have more diverse range of food

Question 3

Why does the UK import so much food? Negatives

Answer 3

• importing food has a large carbon footprint
• sometimes farmers in poorer countries don’t get a fair price
• super markets don’t pay producers fair prices
• growing food put some big pressure on LIC’s

Question 4

What does organic mean?

Answer 4

Organic means that no chemicals, pecticides of fertilisers to enhance growth

Question 5

Pros of organic food

Answer 5

• free of harmful chemicals
• they have less environmental impacts
• the nutritional value is typically higher

Question 6

Cons of organic food

Answer 6

• not a lot of food can be grown

- organic food is very expensive

Question 7

What does agribusiness mean?

Answer 7

Producing as much food as possible and as quickly as possible

Question 8

Pros of agribusiness

Answer 8

• crops grown are diverse
• they are large farms with 570 hectares
• high output per hectare
• profits are invested back into the farm

Question 9

Cons of agribusiness

Answer 9

• highly mechanised, uses specialised machinery
• there is heavy use of fertilisers
• lots of money invested into these businesses

Question 10

What is fracking?

Answer 10

The process of injecting liquid at high pressure into subterranean rocks, boreholes, etc. To force open existing fissures and extract oil and gas

Question 11

Advantages of fracking

Answer 11

• reduced dependance of foreign
• clean fossil fuel
• economic renewal
• future energy needs
• lower energy costs

Question 12

Disadvantages of fracking

Answer 12

• ground water contamination
• air contamination
• animal death and disease
• human harm
• earthquakes

Question 13

Why is their distribution of water over the UK?

Answer 13

On the west coast and in the north there is water surplus so water is transferred to the east coast and the south

Question 14

How are water sources polluted?

Answer 14

• water used for cooling power stations is released into rivers
• construction work releases toxins
• rain mixes with oil on the roads
• factories pollute the rivers
• farms release waste products
• waste from landfill sites leaking into rivers

Question 15

Advantages of fossil fuels

Answer 15

• Uk sources will run for at least another 200 - 300

Question 16

Disadvantages of fossil fuels

Answer 16

• the cost of uk source will rise as they are running out

- the impact will be terribles if we continue using them