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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What 8 countries have tested nuclear weapons in the last forty year? | USA, Former Soviet Union, UK, India, Pakistan, North Korea, France, China |
| Where and when was the last nuclear accident? | Chernobyl in 1986. |
| What are the 4 water scarce countries in 2025? | Cyprus, Tanzania, Peru, Zimbabwe |
| What is one facts about global warming? | The 1990s was the warmest decade for at least the past 1000years. |
| What is one facts about global warming? | Over the past century, global average surface tempratures have increased by o.6 degrees. |
| What is one facts about global warming? | The global average sea leavel has increased by about 10-25cm over the same period. |
| What is one facts about global warming? | In the artic, the late summer sea ice has thinned by about 40% in the past few decades |
| How much toxic waste is produced globaly each year? | 400 million tones |
| How many nuclear accidents in the past 45 years? | 40 maor accidents since 1945 |
| What 8 countries have introduced managment strategies within thier territorial waters by creating quotas that set quotason the number of fish caught commercially? | Australia, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, USA. |
| How is water divided up on the earth? 97.5% | Salt Water in the ocean |
| How is water divided up on the earth? 2.5% | Fresh water |
| How is water divided up on the earth? 2% of fresh water is? | Ice on land |
| How is water divided up on the earth? o.49% of fresh water is? | Ground water |
| How is water divided up on the earth? o.o1% of fresh water is? | From the atmosphere, rivers and lakes |
| Responsibilities? | The obligation to be morally accountable for actions, and answerable for decitions. |
| Commons? | Any resource which is the property of all. |
| Ecosystem? | A group of all the plants and animals in a certain area, together with the environment to which they have adapted. |
| Rights? | Just or fair treatment, something you are intitled to. |
| Effluent? | Treated sewage. |
| Why do you treate sewage? | To destroy diesease-carring organisms, reduce unpleasnt odours and rremove toxix chemicals. |
| Dengue Fever? | An infectious disease of the tropics, transmitted by mosquitoes and causes a rash aching and joint pains/aching |
| Half Life? | The rate that radioactivity decays. |
| Global Warming? | The warming of the atmosphere which some scientist believe is caused by the burning of Fossil fuels. |
| Global commons? | Global commons are the atmosphere, outerspace, oceans beyond national jurisdriction and the related environment and systems that contribute to the support of human life. |
| Enhanced Greenhouse Effect? | Is an increase in the ability of the earths atmosphere to trap heat, warming the earth and the atmosphere. |
| Sewerage? | The used water from a community like homes, businesses and industries. |
| Cholera? | A Acute infectious, intestinal diesease which causes diarrahoea, and cramps which can often be fatal. |
| Aquifer? | A Layer of rock that water can flow through; a store for underground water. |
| Ground water? | Water under ground that has seeped through soil and rock; often used for irrigation and drinking. |
| Global Village? | A world in which any indiviual can talk to any other, anywhere in the world. |
| What four things cause water scarcitiy? | Low rainfall, Variation in climate, land degradation, water pollution and population growth. |
| What are the reasons humans are producing more rubbish? | Increase in packaging because of Technology upgrades and population growth. |
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