Revision Guidelines - Resource Consumption PDF
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These are revision guidelines for resource consumption. It defines terms like renewable resources, fossil fuels, and e-waste. The guidelines cover essential questions and provide examples. It also covers analysis at different scales, including carbon footprint, waste generation, and the flow of e-waste.
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revision guidelines – resource consumption I can define and use the following terms in my answers: - Resources (renewable – non renewable - natural) - Fossil fuels - E-waste - landfills - A garbage patch - Plastic pollution (including micro-plastics) - Circular economy...
revision guidelines – resource consumption I can define and use the following terms in my answers: - Resources (renewable – non renewable - natural) - Fossil fuels - E-waste - landfills - A garbage patch - Plastic pollution (including micro-plastics) - Circular economy - Extended-producer responsibility - The 3 Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) I can answer these essential questions in a developed way: - What is a resource? - What are the effects of the production and consumption of goods on places and environments throughout the world? - Where is waste produced? - Where does waste end up? Why? How? - How can waste be managed? I can give examples of - Different types of resources (renewable, non-renewable) - The lifecycle of a product (= your project or a t-shirt) - An e-waste landfill in a LIC or MIC - A garbage patch I can describe and analyse at different scales - The carbon footprint of an individual - The carbon footprint of a country - The amount of waste generated by individuals, households, countries, the world - The flow of e-waste in the world - The effects of e-waste on the population and the environment (example of Ghana or India)
