Unit 3: Global Resource Consumption and Security
Topic 3.1: Global trends in consumption Questions
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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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Explain how rising incomes can increase per-person energy consumption in middle-income countries.
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Explain why the growing global middle class tends to change what people eat.
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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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Describe what is meant by an individual's ecological footprint.
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Suggest one reason why diets have changed recently among people in middle-income countries.
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Explain how a country's diet can affect its embedded water consumption.
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As income rises, the share of income a household spends on food usually…
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Economic development can raise the energy available to a country by…
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Roughly how much water is needed to produce 1 kg of beef?
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Which change would tend to lower a country's embedded water?
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Suggest two reasons why the embedded water used in producing goods and services has changed over time, developing each.
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As incomes rise, diets typically shift toward more…
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Embedded water in a product is the water that…
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Per-person energy use is rising fastest in which group of countries?
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Explain two distinct reasons why per-person energy use has risen in some middle-income countries over the past 20 years.
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On a data set, the range is found by…
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Explain two reasons why diets are shifting in middle-income countries.
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