DP Environmental Systems and Societies Questionbank

To what extent have international agreements been successful in solving atmospheric air pollution and climate change?

Evaluate strategies to manage regional acid deposition using the pollution management model.

Discuss how human activities impact the flows and stores in the nitrogen cycle.

Explain how acid deposition falling on a forest may impact a nearby aquatic ecosystem.

With reference to Figure 6(b), identify one strategy that might have been used to achieve the trend in sulphur dioxide emissions since the early 1980s.

Explain the distribution of vegetation damage shown in Figure 6(c).

Evaluate one strategy to reduce NO_x emissions from transport.

With reference to Figure 9(c), suggest two strategies that would be most effective in reducing the use of crude oil in Costa Rica.

With reference to named examples, distinguish between a primary and secondary pollutant.

Pollution management strategies may be aimed at either preventing the production of pollutants or limiting their release into ecosystems.

With reference to either acid deposition or eutrophication, evaluate the relative efficiency of these two approaches to management.

Urban air pollution can become a problem as human populations develop. Evaluate urban air pollution management strategies at the three levels of intervention.

Disturbance of the composition and processes of the atmospheric system through human activity always disturbs the equilibria of marine systems.

Discuss the validity of this statement with reference to named examples.

To what extent is pollution impacting human food production systems?

Outline, using examples, the differences between primary and secondary pollution.

Explain the causes and effects of acid deposition on natural ecosystems.