Sustainability Overview

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

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Biotic natural resources

Abiotic natural resources

Water

Oil

Rubber

Cotton

Salt

Fish

Copper

Coal

Diamond

Ivory

Renewable resources

Non-renewable resources

Natural gas

Plastic

Solar energy

Timber from coniferous forest

Timber from tropical rainforest

Fishes

Uranium for nuclear power plants

Aluminium

What are the causes for the huge population increase over the last 300 years?

1. Vaccinations
2. Clean water
3. Improved agriculture, public health and medical care
4. Better transportation

What is the effect of all these improvements for humans?

1. People can meet each other easier and thus have more babies
2. People are getting older
3. Fewer children dying from lack of food and diseases
4. They don't have to fight in wars over resources

If there are more humans they will?

1. produce more waste
2. use more energy
3. need more land for
4. make more children

The sustainable development goals help to limit population growth by?

1. Better education
2. Reducing poverty
3. Healthcare including modern contraception
4. Gender equality

Why is the 

plastic soup 

a problem?

Plastic does not decompose. It breaks down into smaller particles and the problem becomes larger.

We eat it.

REFUSE
REDUCE
RE-USE
RECYCLE

Acid rain is caused by

1. Sulfur dioxide
2. Nitrogen oxides and Sulfur dioxide
3. Carbon dioxide and Sulfur dioxide
4. Carbon monoxide

You can combat acid rain by?

1. Using low sulfur fuels
2. Catalytic converters on cars
3. Flue gas desulfurization
4. All of the above

CFCs (chlorofluorcarbons) are causing

1. skin cancer
2. the ozone layer to become thin
3. acid rain
4. UV radiation

Ultraviolet radiation can cause?

1. Eye cataract
2. Skin cancer
3. Immune efficiency disorders
4. All of the above

What is causing the Nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands?

1. Industry and the burning of fossil fuels
2. Farmers
3. Fertilizers, cattle, construction, traffic and industry
4. European legislation

What is the effect of 'Nitrogen' in the form of fertilizers leaking into the water?

1. Coastal dead zones
2. Certain plants start to grow very fast
3. Microbes that feed on dead plants use up all Oxygen and fishes die
4. All of the above

What is the effect of excess 'Nitrogen' on the Biodiversity?

1. It reduces Biodiversity
2. It acidifies the soil
3. A monoculture of plants
4. All of the above

What are the five main impacts of Nitrogen pollution?

What is the greenhouse effect?

1. Global warming
2. Climate change
3. Gasses re-radiate heat back to earth
4. Air pollution that heats the earth

What causes the greenhouse effect to increase?

1. Oxygen
2. The hole in the ozone layer
3. More greenhouse gases
4. Higher temperatures on earth

CO2 is one of the greenhouses gasses. What increases the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere?

1. The burning of fossil fuels
2. The burning and decomposition of trees
3. Deforestation because trees capture CO2
4. All of the above

Methane is a 23 times more powerful than CO2. What increases the levels of methane in our atmosphere?

1. Rotting trash in landfills
2. Anaerobic conditions in rice fields
3. More livestock
4. All of the above

What are the other greenhouse gases next to CO2 and methane?

1. Water vapor and Nitrogen Oxide
2. CFC's and HFC's
3. Ozone
4. All of the above

What are the consequences of climate change?

1. Oceans warming and sea levels rising
2. More extreme weather patterns
3. Growing crops for food becomes more difficult
4. Health problems

What is photosynthesis?

1. Carbon fixation
2. Plants grow on sunlight
3. CO2 + H2O + solar energy = O2 + sugars for growth
4. Oxygen production

How does the ocean take up CO2?

1. Phytoplankton fixates it by photosynthesis
2. It dissolves into the ocean
3. The algae that live in corals fixate it
4. All of the above

Why are animals like bees economically so important for humans?

1. They produce honey
2. They produce bees wax
3. They eat insects that eat our crops
4. They play a role in fertilization of the crops that we eat

Humans have used up 75% of the earth's land for what purposes?

1. Mining
2. Damming
3. Farming
4. Housing

What is a ocean dead zone?

1. A place where dead fishes was upon the shore
2. A nuclear waste dump zone
3. Low oxygen zone in the ocean where marine life is not supported
4. A plastic soup

What are the two main reasons for biodiversity reduction?

1. Hunting and Fishing
2. Land conversion and overconsumption
3. Overconsumption and fishing
4. Destruction of habitat and fishing