Environmental change
Land environments under threat
Marine environments under threat
Skills and data
Introduced
species and environmental degradation
species and environmental degradation
100
What term is used for 'what nature provides for humanity?
ecological service
100
State one environmental impact of deforestation.
Erosion, rising watertable, silt in waterways, decreased evapotranspiration, topsoil washed or blown away, reduced filtration, nutrients leach from topsoil.
100
What marine animal are plastic bags mistaken for as food?
jellyfish
100
What is the highest contributor to marine debris according to the graph below?
Cigarette butts
100
TRUE or FALSE Goats arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 for milk and meat, but over time some escaped and can now be found in all states and territories of Australia.
TRUE
200
What does an ecological footprint measure?
human demand for ecological services (natural resources)
200
What type of erosion is shown below?
Rill erosion - water flows in small channels (rills)
200
Name one method of reducing the impacts of sea level rise on coastal erosion.
groyne, sea wall, offshore breakwater
200
What type of marine debris is the cause of most fish entanglements?
Fishing line
200
Any plant or animal species that colonises outside its normal range and becomes a pest is known as...
an invasive (or exotic species)
300
What is the main human cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect?
burning fossil fuels
300
What is one thing mine owners are required to do at the end of their lease?
Rehabilitate the mine site
300
TRUE or FALSE. The Great Pacific Ocean Patch is a collection of plastic, nets and other rubbish that averages 10 meters thick and extends 1.6million square kilometres.
TRUE
300
Using the image below, state one area that Australia score highly on the Sustainable Society Index.
sufficient food, sufficient drink, safe sanitation, clean air, education,
300
The Maremma Project uses maremma dogs to protect what species against foxes?
Little Penguins
400
What term is used for ' the observable rising trend in Earth's atmospheric temperatures'?
global warming
400
What type of salinity is caused by over-watering?
Irrigation salinity
400
The sewage outfall at Gunamatta has been controversial over the years. What is one thing that has been done to minimise the issue?
upgrade Eastern Treatment plant from Class C to Class A recycled water
400
TRUE or FALSE.
Australia's largest primary energy consumption source in 2012-13 was coal and is still predicted to be in 2029-30?
FALSE
400
Name an introduced species you studied AND a strategy used to reduce its impact.
Name:
Strategy:
500
What global agreement set targets to limit greenhouse emissions and contain global warming withing 2oC
Kyoto Protocol
500
The 'Great Green Wall' of China was used to halt the spread of what?
deserts
500
How does global warming pose a problem to coastal environments?
rising sea levels
500
Which part of the continent has the most 'severe' soil degradation?
The east or NSW
500
State one way international marine species can be introduced in Australia AND one way they can become a pest.
bilge water of boats, on boat hulls
quick breeders, poisonous to native species, out-compete native species