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WorksheetsYear 10 Resource Management Summary Quiz
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 35mins
What percentage of all the water on Earth is freshwater?
1%
2.5%
10%
20%
What percentage of the world's freshwater is usable?
1%
21%
30%
What is the largest use of water in the UK?
Domestic - drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing toilets etc.
Agricultural use - irrigating crops and providing water for animals
Industrial use - production
Energy use
What method can be used to use water to create energy?
DEP
LEP
HEP
What does HEP stand for?
Hydroelectric production
Hydroelectric power
Hydroelectroylsis power
Define water surplus
Define water deficit
What is water insecurity?
Inadequate supply of water of an acceptable quality
Reliable supply of water of an acceptable quality
Which of the following are cities with water insecurity?
Jakarta
Sao Paulo
Moscow
Zurich
What country have we chosen as our case study for water transfer project?
(a)
Which country has both water security and insecurity in it?
Brazil
England
Scotland
Nigeria
Why is water consumption increasing?
Increasing population
Economic development
People are trying to store as much as possible
A disadvantage of water transfer schemes includes...
Desalination is...
making water clean
reusing water
removing salt from water
What is water conservation?
How can groundwater be managed?
Reduce domestic use
Stop leakages
Control pollution
Improve irrigation
Grey water contains traces of food, dirt, grease and can be reused.
True
False
Generally, LICs consume more resources than HICs.
True
False
The global supply of freshwater is limited and unequally distributed.
True
False
A type of farming that does not include the use of chemicals such as pesticides and fertilisers is...
(a)
The distance that food travels from producer to consumer is called...
(a)
What is the name for the measure of the impact that human activity has on the environment?
(a)
What are the advantages of buying local food produce?
(a) refers to treating food production from farms like a large industrial business, making it a large scale, capital intensive, commercial activity.
How does water pollution affect the UK?
Rubbish being dumped in a river, waste engine oil flowing into water systems and untreated waste from industries entering water is known as...
water quality
water pollution
water assurance
(a) energy can be used again and again and will not run out. It does not pollute the atmosphere.
Coal, gas and oil are ...
non-renewable
renewable
Select all energy sources that are NON-RENEWABLE...
coal
wind
oil
solar
nuclear energy
Hitosa case study shows...
water transfer within a country
water transfer to another country
Hitosa is located in...
Ethiopia
Kenya
Lesotho
Hitosa uses a gravity-led water transfer scheme to increase water supplies to others.
True
False
