Sampling/Data collection
The variable which is being measured.
What is the dependent variable?
When all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
What is food security.
A programme whose goal is to conserve endangered species which are evolutionarily distinct.
What is the EDGE programme (Evolutionarily distinct and Globally Endangered species)
The destruction of the ozone due to CFCs in the atmosphere.
What is ozone depletion?
Ozone, nitrous oxide, methane, carbon dioxide.
What are greenhouse gases?
A method of sampling in which a regular pattern is used to identify sample points.
What is systematic sampling?
Solar energy, hydroelectric dams, wind energy, wave and tidal energy, biomass, geothermal energy.
What are renewable resources?
An organization whose goal is to provide scientific information and tools to guide international actions in conservation. The protection of plant, animal and fungi species and the habitats needed or their survival is centra to the purpose of the list of species the organization produces.
What is the IUCN Red List (The International Union for Conservation of Nature).
Human health effects (skin cancer, cataracts), ocean ecosystem harm, agricultural losses.
What are the effects of ozone depletion?
What is big data (in the context of climate change)?
A method of sampling in which data is collected along a straight line.
What is line sampling?
Poverty and low standards of living, civil unrest, increasing energy prices and economic recession, reliance on imported energy sources.
What are impacts of energy insecurity.
An organization whose goal is to ensure that the international trade in wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species.
What is CITIES (Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
When ultraviolet rays from the sun react with VOCs.
What is the formation of photochemical smog?
Increased frequency of catastrophic weather events, damage to infrastructure, forced migration, decreased crop yields, impacts on food/energy/water security.
What are impacts of climate change?
A method of data collection that involves kicking the bed of a river while pointing a net downstream to collect the organisms which are displaced.
What is kick sampling?
Gases released during the degradation of biological waste.
What are greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide?
An organization whose goal is to manage the declining whale numbers internationally. They strive to establish protected whale sanctuaries, as no fishing and safe breeding zones.
What is IWC (International Whaling Commission)
The process of pollutants such as sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides mixing into the atmosphere.
What is acid deposition?
When atmospheric CO2 is dissolved into the ocean, lowering the pH.
What is ocean acidification?
A tool used to measure the turbidity of water. It is lowered into the water until it is no longer visible.
What is a Secchi disc?
A strategy to reduce food insecurity in which farmers grow enough food for themselves/their family, with little or no surplus for trade.
What is substinence agriculture.
An organization whose goal is to develop international policy guidelines to encourage sustainable forest management and sustainable tropical timber harvest and trade.
What is ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organization)
Damaging buildings/infrastructures, harming aquatic organisms, harming plants.
What are direct effects of acid deposition?
Reduction in CO2 emissions, alternating to low carbon fuels, renewable energy sources, geoengineering.
What are ways to manage climate change?