Lesson 3.2.5.6

3.2.5.6 Resource futures Quiz: AQA Geography, Unit 2

20 questions

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes resource availability scenarios influenced by technology and government policy?

    • Baseline trend forecasts
    • Static reserve models
    • Alternative resource futures
    • Linear consumption limits

  2. Which technological development directly reduces future reliance on fossil fuels for electricity?

    • Grid battery storage
    • Deep coal extraction
    • Fracking expansion
    • Diesel generators

  3. The global growth of electric vehicle manufacturing significantly increases demand for which mineral?

    • Lithium
    • Uranium
    • Coal
    • Bauxite

  4. Besides technological innovation, what factor is essential to secure future water supplies?

    • Aquifer depletion
    • Increased evaporation
    • Effective water governance
    • Unregulated extraction

  5. Which agricultural technique significantly reduces pressure on global freshwater supplies?

    • Flood irrigation
    • Deforestation
    • Drip irrigation
    • Chemical fertilisation

  6. Which political factor most effectively accelerates the adoption of alternative energy futures?

    • High import tariffs
    • Fossil fuel subsidies
    • Grid decentralisation
    • Stable subsidy policy

  7. Resource futures are shaped by interactions between technology, economics, and what other major factor?

    • Orbital eccentricity
    • Environmental policy
    • Subterranean pressure
    • Solar flare activity

  8. What technology is essential to balance variable grid supply from renewable energy sources?

    • Fracking technology
    • Energy storage
    • Carbon capture
    • Nuclear fission

  9. Which approach best reduces environmental pressure from growing global mineral demand?

    • Smelting expansion
    • Open-cast mining
    • Circular economy
    • Deep-sea dredging

  10. What term describes the complex interdependencies between energy, water, and food systems?

    • Resource nexus
    • Carbon footprint
    • Resource frontier
    • Ecological deficit

  11. What approach models alternative future resource availability under varying climatic and demographic conditions?

    • Trend extrapolation
    • Scenario planning
    • Environmental auditing
    • Cost-benefit analysis

  12. What type of technology extracts minerals from low-grade ores using living microorganisms?

    • Hydraulic fracturing
    • Smelting
    • Bioleaching
    • Phytomining

  13. Which strategy reduces resource consumption by influencing user behaviour rather than increasing supply?

    • Demand management
    • Resource exploitation
    • Market deregulation
    • Supply expansion

  14. What major environmental byproduct of seawater desalination poses a risk to marine ecosystems?

    • Acidic sludge
    • Toxic brine
    • Carbon monoxide
    • Eutrophic runoff

  15. Which political factor creates high uncertainty in global energy security and supply lines?

    • Population growth
    • Technological decay
    • Urbanisation rates
    • Geopolitical instability

  16. What term describes a geographic region where resource extraction becomes newly viable due to technology or price?

    • Resource baseline
    • Resource frontier
    • Resource peak
    • Resource reserve

  17. A battery pack costs 200 pounds per kWh now and falls by 10% each year. Approximately what is its cost after two years, assuming a constant annual fall?

    • 162 pounds per kWh
    • 160 pounds per kWh
    • 180 pounds per kWh
    • 140 pounds per kWh

  18. What economic policy internalises environmental damage by placing a fee on greenhouse gas emissions?

    • Export subsidies
    • Resource nationalisation
    • Import tariffs
    • Carbon taxation

  19. What term refers to mineral or energy deposits that are discovered and economically viable to extract?

    • Unproven deposits
    • Proven reserves
    • Inferred resources
    • Total stock

  20. A desalination plant uses 3 kWh of energy per cubic metre of water. How much energy is needed to produce 10,000 cubic metres, in MWh?

    • 3,000 MWh
    • 30 MWh
    • 3 MWh
    • 300 MWh

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