Topic 7: Natural Resources
12 review questions with answers for Topic 7: Natural Resources, 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.
Raw materials and sources of energy used by society (e.g. sunlight, water, land, ecosystems)?
- Natural income
- Natural resourcesRight answer
- Renewable energy
- Fossil fuels
All 12 questions and answers
Raw materials and sources of energy used by society (e.g. sunlight, water, land, ecosystems)?
Answer: Natural resources
Earth's stock of resources, such as forests, soils and fish stocks, from which a sustainable flow of goods and services can be drawn?
Answer: Natural capital
The sustainable yield of goods and services from natural capital, like interest earned on a bank balance (e.g. annual timber growth, fish catch)?
Answer: Natural income
Benefits people obtain from nature, grouped as provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural (e.g. pollination, flood protection)?
Answer: Ecosystem services
Resources that can be regenerated at least as fast as they are consumed?
Answer: Renewable resources
Resources that cannot be replenished on a human timescale, so their stocks are depleted by use (e.g. metal ores, phosphate rock)?
Answer: Non-renewable resources
A country's ability to ensure long-term availability of sufficient natural resources to meet demand?
Answer: Resource security
Energy sources that can be naturally replenished (e.g. solar, wind, tidal, hydro, geothermal)?
Answer: Renewable energy
Finite carbon-rich energy sources formed over millions of years from the buried, compressed remains of organisms (e.g. coal, oil, natural gas)?
Answer: Fossil fuels
Reducing energy consumption through behavioural change (e.g. turning off lights, reducing travel)?
Answer: Energy conservation
Using less energy to perform the same task through improved technology?
Answer: Energy efficiency
Technologies such as batteries and pumped hydro that hold surplus electricity from intermittent renewables for use when generation is low?
Answer: Energy storage systems
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.