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WorksheetsYr 10 Environmental Change
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 24mins
What word best fits this definition?
“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Sustainability
Ecosystem Services
Conservation
Altruism
What is not one of the four categories of ecosystem services?
Regulating
Cultural
Supporting
Provisioning
Establishing
Which is not a type of function of an environment?
Source
Sink
Spiritual
Service
Sustain
Match these timeframes to quantities of human populations
Humans first thought to exist.
200 000 years ago
Human population at 3 billion
60 years ago
Population doubles to 6 million
15 years ago
7.9 billion people
Current population
Over 9 billion people
Prediction for 2050
What does anthropogenic mean?
moral philosophy focused on protecting species from extinction
environmental change caused or influenced by people, either directly or indirectly
aspects of human society, culture and behaviours
changes to the environment having a natural influence or cause
What are the three pillars of sustainability?
Economic
Social
Environmental
Critical
Educational
Categorise these potential causes of biodiversity loss
Habitat change / deforestation
Over exploitation of resources
Pollution of land, water and air
Spread of invasive species
Human induced climate change
Conservation efforts
The food chain
Photosynthesis
True or False: Human-centred worldviews see an almost unlimited potential for economic growth.
True
False
True or False: Earth-centred worldviews believe that humans are the most important species.
True
False
Differentiate between natural and human factors causing climate change.
Solar activity
Producing greenhouse gases
Volcanic acitivity
Deforestation
Changing earth axis
Natural disasters
Pollution
Industrialisation
Ocean currents
Transportation
Agriculture
Impact of climate change: Sea levels (a)
Impact of climate change: Coral reef (a) .
Impact of climate change: Marine Animal (a) .
Impact of climate change: (a) acidifications
(a) are individuals and/or groups that hold (b) interest in an activity, industry or development. In terms of (c) , some groups may want to mitigate the impacts, e.g. (d) but some groups might not want to mitigate the impacts due to the potential for (e) , e.g. the oil and gas industry.
True or False: Marine ecosystems are the largest of all ecosystems on Earth.
True
False
Humans can benefit from the oceans economically through (a) . Or socially through (b) .
What is a 'Gyre'?
Hint: it helped create the Great Pacific Garbage patch
A large circular ocean current
The rising and falling of the sea
A tool used to detect microplastics in water
A type of fish
Which bit of waste takes the longest to break down?
(select out of the blue dots)
Why isn't the great pacific garbage patch getting lots of attention?
People can't see it. therefore it isn't a problem for them
International waters means no country is directly responsible
There is no where to put all the rubbish
Technology isn't advanced enough to deal with that much micro-plastic
All of the above
Melting glaciers / polar ice-caps and rising water temperatures known as 'thermal expansion' is a cause of:
Sea levels rising
Climate change
Over fishing
Garbage patches
True or False: Kiribati is one of many island nations experiencing threats from sea levels rising.
True
False
How coral bleaching occurs:
Healthy coral is coated with a colourful marine algae (Zooxanthellae)
Water temperature increases for long periods
Marine algae becomes too stressed and leaves the coral
Coral turns plain white and is more vulnerable
Coral dies
True or False: Coral can recover from coral bleaching.
True
False
