Unit 3 Global resources: Resource stewardship
14 revision questions with answers for Unit 3 Global resources: Resource stewardship, marked SL and HL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Thinker who argued population grows geometrically but food supply only arithmetically?
- Boserup
- Ehrlich
- MalthusRight answer
- Rostow
What this set covers
Ideas about limits to growth sit alongside sustainability tools here. Malthus and Boserup, cornucopian and neo-Malthusian views, the SDGs, circular and linear economies, the waste hierarchy and planetary boundaries are all covered.
- Common mix-up
- Students often credit Malthus with Boserup's argument: Malthus saw food supply failing to keep pace with population, while Boserup saw population pressure prompting farming innovation.
- Revision tip
- Build a two-column table of Malthus against Boserup and cornucopian against neo-Malthusian, then redo the grain carrying capacity calculation without looking at the answer.
All 14 questions and answers
Thinker who argued population grows geometrically but food supply only arithmetically?
Answer: Malthus
Thinker who argued that population pressure stimulates farming innovation and intensification?
Answer: Boserup
1972 Club of Rome report modelling overshoot and collapse if consumption and population expand unchecked?
Answer: The Limits to Growth
View that technology and human ingenuity will overcome resource limits?
Answer: Cornucopian
Modern view, e.g. Ehrlich's, that population growth will outstrip resources?
Answer: Neo-Malthusian
Brundtland definition: meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet theirs?
Answer: Sustainable development
UN's 17 aims, adopted in 2015, for ending poverty and protecting the planet by 2030?
Answer: SDGs
System keeping materials in use through repair, reuse and recycling, designing out waste?
Answer: Circular economy
'Take, make, dispose' pattern of production and consumption?
Answer: Linear economy
Design approach in which products are made to be fully recycled or composted at end of life?
Answer: Cradle to cradle
Deliberately designing products to have a limited useful life?
Answer: Planned obsolescence
Ranking of options from reduce, reuse and recycle down to landfill disposal?
Answer: Waste hierarchy
Nine Earth-system limits, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, defining a safe operating space?
Answer: Planetary boundaries
A region grows 365,000 kg of grain a year; each person needs 1 kg a day. Carrying capacity?
Answer: 1,000 people
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options were written for that question.