Key Terms
Define food aid.
What is help given to a country or region suffering from food insecurity?
Define food insecurity
What is a lack of access to sufficient safe and nutritious foods?
The two types of energy.
What is renewable and non-renewable energy?
Name the term: reusing a discarded item in such a way as to create a product of a higher quality than the original (for example, using materials from discarded plastic bottles to make new shoes)
What is upcycling.
Identify: Electricity that is generated using the energy of flowing water
What is HEP/Hydroelectric Power?
Define Homogeneous.
What is describing things of the same kind, e.g. the crops produced by a farmer may be all of the same kind?
Causes: What the misuse of land leads to.
What is Land Degradation?
Causes: What types of reserves do energy secure countries have a lot of?
What is oil?
What is the process of burning materials/waste?
What is incineration?
Identify: To store large amounts of goods or materials
What is stockpiling?
Define Fermentation.
What is the chemical breakdown of substances by yeast or bacteria anaerobically to create an alcohol and biogas.
Impacts: What does malnutrition lead to?
*ANY ONE IS ACCEPTABLE*
starvation, death
Impacts: What does energy insecurity lead to?
(Any of these answers)
Increasing energy prices
Economic recession
Poverty
Civil unrest
Reliance on imported sources
Impacts: How long does it take for plastics to decompose
20 - 1000 years
Identify: chemicals used to control insects, and unwanted plants and fungi in food crops
What is herbicides and fungicides?
Define hazardous waste.
What is waste that has properties which make it dangerous or capable of harming the environment or human health.
Strategies: Improved agricultural techniques and efficiency have been achieved through the use of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation schemes and high-yield variety seeds. What is this known as?
What is the Green Revolution?
Strategies: Name the most common individual method to manage energy security.
What are solar panels?
Identify: What type of waste decomposes on its own without harming the environment?
What is biodegradable?
Identify: The buildup of toxin in the body of an organism
What is bioaccumulation?
Define Leachate.
What is a typically acidic fluid that has filtered through the waste in landfills; leaching results in the fluid becoming contaminated with heavy metals, toxic chemicals and biological waste.
The difference between hydroponics and aquaponics.
What is:
hydroponics: the growth of plants without soil (plants are grown in nutrient-rich water)
aquaponics: a soil-free farming system that uses the waste produced by aquatic organisms (fish) to supply nutrients to plants being grown hydroponically
Biomass is obtained from...
What is organic material? (plants, animal waste)
What was designed to control the international movement of hazardous waste and its disposal?
What is the Basel Convention? (1989)
Identify: The buildup of a toxin in a food chain
What is biomagnification?