Term | Definition |
test holes | test for present of oil and gas |
continental shelf | shallow waters that streches for 200km off Irish west coast |
Kinsale Field | gas field Co Kerry Ireland |
Corrib field | gas field found off Co Mayo |
OPEC | Organisation of Oil Producing Countries |
a oil refinery in Ireland | Cork Harbour to refine oil for use |
oil spill | oil spills damage the environment |
finite resource | non -renewable coal, oil,peat, natural gas |
infinite resource | renewable wind, wave, solar |
uses of oil | domestic, manufacturing, transport, commercial |
advantages of oil | cheap, plentiful,easy to handle and transport,clean to burn,efficient, |
raised bog | are deep, 8m, located in the central plain |
blanket bog | are shallow, 1-2m, mountains around Ireland |
baggers | machines that cut large amounts of peat sods in one day |
spoon harrow | used to harvest milled peat |
milling | top centimeter of bog is rotivated into powder and dried, it is collected into long ridges and covered with plastic |
electricity generation | peat is a fuel used to generate heat to power turbines to produce electricity |
moss peat | used in gardening |
pelagic fish | swim near the surface- herring and salmon |
demersal fish | swim near the bottom,- cod. caught by trawling |
shellfish | lobster, caught in pots |
plankton | fish eat this |
North Atlantic Drift | warm sea drift brings extras supplies of fish food to Irish waters and extra varieties of fish |
overfishing | too many fish being caught leading to a decline of fish numbers |
quotas | limit the amount of fish that can be caught |
monofilament net | illegal nets, length, depth and mesh size are illegal, these nets ate invisible to fish |
disadvantages of farming to environment | sprays add chemicals to the soil, fertilisers damage lake water causing the growth of algae, habitats are reduced for wildlife, dumping of farm waste |
farm inputs | climate, land,stock,farm buildings, labour, machinery,capital,fertiliser, animal feed, |
farm processes | ploughing,rotavating, planting, harvesting, milking, feeding, breeding |
farm outputs | grain,vegetables,straw, milk,calves, fertiliser-manure. |
advantages of developing bogs | employment, heating, reduces imports, generates electricity, exports |
how Ireland uses energy | domestic, manufacturing, transport, commercial |
preventing overfishing | drift netting is illegal,recording of sold fish, severe penalties for overfishing ,reduce the cost of salmon |