The Challenge of Resource Management (AQA GCSE Geography)

Explain how different strategies can be used to make food supplies more sustainable.

Explain how different strategies can be used to make water supplies more sustainable.

Explain how different strategies can be used to make energy supplies more sustainable.

Study Figure 10, comments from a government report into water quality and pollution in the UK.

Figure 10

Discuss the challenges of managing water quality and pollution in the UK.

Use Figure 10 and your own understanding.

‘A large scale agricultural development can bring both advantages and disadvantages.’

Explain this statement using an example you have studied.

Name of development ______________

‘A large scale water transfer scheme can bring both advantages and disadvantages.’
Explain this statement using an example you have studied.

Name of scheme _____________

‘Extraction of fossil fuels can bring both advantages and disadvantages.’

Explain this statement using an example you have studied.

Name of fossil fuel ___________

Study Figures 14a and 14b.

Figure 14a is a typical greywater system.
Figure 14b is a photograph of a garden water butt.

Figure 14a 

Suggest how water supplies can be made more sustainable.
Use Figures 14a and 14b and your own understanding.

Study Figures 16a and 16b.

Figure 16a is a diagram showing energy conservation in the home.
Figure 16b is a photograph of an electric vehicle charging point.

Suggest how energy use can be made more sustainable.
Use Figures 16a and 16b and your own understanding.

Study Figure 10a and Figure 10b.

Figure 10a shows the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted to produce 1 kg of food.

Figure 10b is a screenshot of a local food organisation’s website.

‘Growing concern in the UK about the carbon footprint of food creates both opportunities and challenges.’

Use evidence from Figure 10a and Figure 10b to explain this statement.

Study Figure 12a and Figure 12b.

Suggest how food insecurity can have both economic and social impacts.

Use Figure 12a and Figure 12b and your own understanding.

Study Figure 14a and Figure 14b.

Suggest how water insecurity can have both economic and social impacts.

Use Figure 14a and Figure 14b and your own understanding.

Study Figure 16a and Figure 16b.

Suggest how energy insecurity can have both economic and environmental impacts.

Use Figure 16a and Figure 16b and your own understanding.

Study Figures 10a and 10b.

Figure 10a shows the cost of producing electricity in the UK by source.
Figure 10b is a photograph showing some issues regarding wind farms. 

‘There are economic and environmental issues associated with the exploitation of energy sources.’

Use evidence from Figure 10a and Figure 10b to explain this statement. 

Study Figures 12a and 12b.

Figure 12a is a photograph showing The Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in New York, a city in the USA.

Figure 12b is a food label.

Suggest how food supplies can be made more sustainable. 

Use Figures 12a and 12b and your own understanding.

Suggest how food supplies have been made more sustainable.

Use an example of a local scheme in an LIC/NEE. 

Name of local scheme

Suggest how water supplies have been made more sustainable.

Use an example of a local scheme in an LIC/NEE. 

Name of local scheme

Suggest how energy supplies have been made more sustainable.

Use an example of a local renewable energy scheme in an LIC/NEE. 

Name of local scheme