Unit 4: 4 Contexts
Topic 4.3: Environmental Questions
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With reference to the statement, outline **one** harm to people who handle electronic waste by hand.
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Evaluate the use of robotic weeders that use cameras to remove weeds on farms.
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Explain **one** reason why keeping a device longer helps more than recycling it.
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Explain **one** reason why a farmer may be concerned about data collected by farm machinery.
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With reference to Source A, suggest **two** conditions that would make farm data serve the farmer.
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Outline **one** environmental benefit of precision agriculture.
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Explain **two** limitations of measures a data centre can take to reduce its environmental impact.
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To what extent should the data collected by farm machinery belong to the farmer?
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Explain **one** environmental impact of moving computing into data centres.
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Describe what happens to much of the world's electronic waste.
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Explain **one** environmental benefit of moving computing into data centres.
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With reference to Source A, explain **one** reason why the same obstacle applies to electronic waste.
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Evaluate a law requiring manufacturers to supply spare parts and repair information.
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With reference to the statement, outline **one** reason why exported electronic waste causes more environmental harm than waste processed domestically.
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With reference to Source A, identify **two** findings of the auditor's review.
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Identify **two** environmental costs of digital systems themselves.
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Identify **two** groups a city sensor network may fail to count.
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Identify **two** ways digital technologies are used to monitor the environment.
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Explain **one** reason why environmental monitoring may not reduce harm.
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Identify **two** uses a city makes of the data a sensor network collects.
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