Unit 3: Global Resource Consumption and Security
Topic 3.1: Global trends in consumption Questions
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Explain how a country's diet can affect its embedded water consumption.
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Suggest one reason why diets have changed recently among people in middle-income countries.
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Explain how greater energy efficiency has helped reduce per-person oil consumption in some high-income countries.
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Explain what is meant by the term embedded water.
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Suggest one way an individual could reduce their ecological footprint, developing your answer.
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A country's electricity comes from coal 40%, gas 25%, nuclear 20% and renewables 15%. Suggest one graphical method to display this data and give a reason for your choice.
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Explain how rising incomes can increase per-person energy consumption in middle-income countries.
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Describe what is meant by an individual's ecological footprint.
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Explain why the growing global middle class tends to change what people eat.
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Roughly how much water is needed to produce 1 kg of beef?
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Suggest two reasons why the importance of nuclear power is changing in the world's energy mix.
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Economic development can raise the energy available to a country by…
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Study the data on food spending across income groups.
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Which change would tend to lower a country's embedded water?
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As incomes rise, diets typically shift toward more…
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Explain two reasons why high-income countries tend to have larger ecological footprints than low-income countries.
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Suggest two ways in which a country's economic development can raise the amount of energy available to it.
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Explain one way that the ecological footprint captures how much an individual consumes in resources.
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What does per-person (per capita) consumption mean?
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Which graph type best shows a country's fuel mix as shares of the whole?
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