Topic 1: Foundation (part 3)
13 review questions with answers for Topic 1: Foundation (part 3), marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Monetary value of all final goods/services produced in a country in a given period; criticized for ignoring natural systems?
- GDPRight answer
- Biocapacity
- Green GDP
- Circular economy
All 13 questions and answers
Monetary value of all final goods/services produced in a country in a given period; criticized for ignoring natural systems?
Answer: GDP
GDP adjusted by subtracting the monetary value of environmental degradation?
Answer: Green GDP
The right of all people to a clean environment and equal access to natural resources regardless of race, gender or income?
Answer: Environmental justice
Area of land/water needed to sustain a population's resource use and absorb its waste?
Answer: Ecological footprint
Total greenhouse gas emissions of an individual or activity, measured in CO₂ equivalents?
Answer: Carbon footprint
Total direct and indirect water consumption of a population, measured in m³/year?
Answer: Water footprint
The ability of a given area to generate a sustainable supply of renewable resources and absorb the resulting wastes?
Answer: Biocapacity
Data collection about natural systems carried out by members of the general public?
Answer: Citizen science
Set of 17 interlinked global objectives, adopted in 2015, to guide action on poverty, equity and the environment until 2030?
Answer: UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Model identifying nine Earth-system processes and the human disturbance limits beyond which abrupt changes may occur?
Answer: Planetary boundaries model
Raworth's framework for an economy meeting everyone's needs within ecological limits, bounded by a social foundation and ecological ceiling?
Answer: Doughnut economics model
A model promoting decoupling economic activity from finite resources through three principles: eliminate waste, circulate materials, regenerate nature?
Answer: Circular economy
Quantitative measures (e.g. biodiversity, pollution, footprints) used to assess sustainability across scales?
Answer: Sustainability indicators
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.