IB DP Geography - Global Trends in Consumption

The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than...?

• $0.90 a day

• $1.90 a day

• $2.10 a day

• It is a different amount depending on the country

In the past 50 years the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has...

• Increased

• Stayed the same

• Decreased

• Impossible to calculate

Which product has the highest percentage of embedded water?

• Beef

• Coffee

• Apples

• A bottle of water

________ is a measure of the area of land required to sustain an individual person or group by absorbing his/her waste

• biocapacity

• embedded environment

• carrying capacity

• ecological footprint

The 'nutritional transition' describes a society's increased consumption of...

• fruits and vegetables

• Fats and oils

• meat and dairy products

• GMO and locally produced crops

HICs tend to maintain or increase their consumption of water because of...

• An increase in bathing times

• An increase in growing of crops

• An increase in embedded water through agriculture and manufacturing

• An increase in agriculture and manufacturing

Looking at the image, what is the main difference between % of water consumption in HICs vs LICs

• HICs use more water for agriculture than LICs

• HICs use more water for industrial use than LICs

• There are no real differences to comment on

• The biggest difference is because of domestic use

Which is not a reason for the slowing down of food production and crop yields?

• More natural hazards

• Global Climate change

• Increase in use of farming for biofuels

• Land grabs

According to this graph, what can we say about peak oil...?

• It happend during the 1960s

• It will happen in 2080

• It happened in 1980

• It happened in the 2010s

Which is not a renewable energy source?

• Methane

• Tidal

• Biofuel

• Hydroelectric Power (HEP)