Key Terms: The Challenge of Resource Management Flashcards

When all people, at all times, have access to enough safe, nutritious and affordable food to maintain a healthy and active life.

False. A deficit means demand is greater than supply; a surplus is where supply is greater than demand.

The distance food travels from where it is produced to where it is consumed.

A measurement of the greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide) produced by a person, product or activity.

Large-scale, capital-intensive, industrialised farming run as a business to maximise output and profit.

A widespread, severe shortage of food, often leading to undernutrition, starvation and death.

False. Undernutrition is not eating enough food/calories; malnutrition is a diet lacking the right balance of nutrients.

Farming without artificial fertilisers, pesticides or additives, using natural methods instead.

Food production that follows natural ecosystems and cycles, e.g. crop rotation, natural pest control and harvesting rainwater.

Growing food or rearing animals within towns and cities, e.g. on rooftops, allotments or in community gardens.

Growing plants in nutrient-rich water instead of soil.

False. In aeroponics roots hang in air and are sprayed with a nutrient mist; it is hydroponics that uses nutrient-rich water.

The artificial watering of land so that crops can be grown.

Technology that suits the needs, skills, knowledge and wealth of local people and their environment, e.g. a simple sand dam.

Taking water from rivers, lakes or aquifers faster than it is replaced by rainfall.

Water stored underground in the pores and cracks of permeable rock (an aquifer).

Waste water from sinks, showers and washing machines that can be reused, e.g. for irrigation or flushing toilets.

Moving water by pipes or canals from an area of water surplus to an area of water deficit.

The removal of salt from seawater to produce fresh water for drinking or irrigation.

The range and proportion of the different energy sources a country uses.

Coal, oil and natural gas — non-renewable fuels formed from the remains of dead organisms over millions of years.

False. It is non-renewable, because the uranium it uses is a finite resource.

Energy from sources that will not run out and can be used again and again, e.g. wind, solar, hydro, tidal, wave, geothermal and biomass.

Reducing energy consumption by using less energy and using it more efficiently, e.g. insulating homes.

Using resources to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

True. A surplus means supply exceeds demand, so the resource is secure; a deficit means demand exceeds supply, causing insecurity.

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