The Challenge of Resource management: Autumn Term 1

Which resources are essential to economic and social well being?

• water

• food

• energy

• all three

Which group of countries suffer an extreme risk of food insecurity?

• Ethiopia; South Sudan; Somalia

• Ethiopia; China; Brazil

• Ethiopia; Yemen; Thailand

• Ethiopia; South Africa; UAE

Which of these areas does not suffer with water stress?

• sub- Saharan Africa

• Middle East

• central Australia

• Northern Europe

True or false: Countries with the lowest levels of energy insecurity tend to be those richly endowed with resources eg Canada, Russia & Saudi Arabia

• False

• True

True or false: Malnutrition is not having enough food to eat

• True

• False

True or False: The global distribution of human wellbeing is unequal as there is an unequal distribution of resources or the ability to exploit these resources across the world.

• True

• False

In what ways does collecting firewood for energy impact on women & girls?

• their security

• their health

• their social relations

• all of the above

The largest use of water in the home is?

• washing clothes

• drinking

• showers

• flushing the toilet

Water stress happens when-

• there is too little demand

• there is too much demand

• there is too little to meet the demand or it is of poor quality

• when there is too much supply

water demand in increasing in the UK because

• population is increasing

• greater wealth means more appliances, more leisure use, more water for out of season crops

• industrial production

• all of these reasons