AICE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CORE
REVIEWS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔EDGE species (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) - ✔✔The EDGE of
Existence programme highlights and protects some of the most unique species on the
planet, which are on the verge of extinction. The ultimate goal of the EDGE programme
is to ensure that local stakeholders, governments, and in-country and international
conservation organisations take ownership of these forgotten species and commit to
ensuring their future survival.
✔✔Captive breeding programs - ✔✔Raising and breeding organisms in controlled
conditions, such as zoos or aquariums
✔✔pros of captive breeding - ✔✔Captive breeding saves animals from extinction,
disease, and other threats., Captive breeding provides better living conditions,
Economic resource - promoting tourism and employment., Helpful for scientific
research.
✔✔cons of captive breeding - ✔✔Not all animals do well in captive breeding., It's
expensive., Animals born in captivity often have to stay in captivity all their lives., A
single program or zoo cannot keep and sustain the entire species.
✔✔Habitat Conservation - ✔✔A plan that attempts to protect one or more species
across large areas of land through trade-offs or cooperative agreements
✔✔Rewilding - ✔✔Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting core
wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or
reintroducing apex predators and keystone species.
✔✔extractive reserves - ✔✔Areas of land, often forest, that are protected for extractive
uses by local groups; one of the best known is in the Amazon Rainforest and named for
Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper who organized resistance to deforestation by ranchers
and was murdered in 1988
, ✔✔national parks - ✔✔One form of reserve that is intended to protect natural and
scenic areas of national or international significance for scientific, educational and
recreational use
✔✔nature reserves - ✔✔Protected areas of land where building, poaching and and
farming are restricted. Usually run by government agencies.
✔✔Conservation Zones - ✔✔Areas designated with the aim to protect nationally
important, rare or threatened habitats and species. No development is allowed. In
marine zones people cannot fish there.
✔✔protected areas - ✔✔geographic spaces on land or at sea that are recognized,
dedicated, and managed to achieve long-term conservation of nature
✔✔Impact of deforestation on Amazon soil - ✔✔Deforestation of the rainforest has had
several impacts. The soil in the rainforest is very nutrient poor. Farmers burn the
vegetation to return some of the nutrients from the trees to the soil but they are depleted
very quickly as there is no new natural vegetation to replace it. Additionally, by removing
trees from the rainforest you allow the soil to easily erode away causing siltation in the
water (turbid water where photosynthesis cannot happen and there are low oxygen
levels), and you can also have events such as mudslides and landslides because there
are no roots to hold the soil in place.
✔✔Impact of deforestation of the Amazon on global climate change - ✔✔By removing
trees from the rainforest you are increasing global climate change. First, the trees are
carbon sinks (they take in carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere which is a greenhouse
gas. Second, removing the trees takes machinery which also give off greenhouse
gasses.
✔✔sustainable harvesting - ✔✔Using natural resouces at a rate where nature can
replenish them.
✔✔food security - ✔✔when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic
access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life
✔✔Impacts of food insecurity (7) - ✔✔•regional food scarcity • nutritional deficiency and
malnutrition • poverty • forced migration • conflict • famine • death
✔✔subsistence agriculture - ✔✔Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct
consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
✔✔4 strategies for improved agricultural techniques and efficiency - ✔✔- aquaculture
and hydroponics - use of selective breeding and genetically modified (GM) crops to
REVIEWS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔EDGE species (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) - ✔✔The EDGE of
Existence programme highlights and protects some of the most unique species on the
planet, which are on the verge of extinction. The ultimate goal of the EDGE programme
is to ensure that local stakeholders, governments, and in-country and international
conservation organisations take ownership of these forgotten species and commit to
ensuring their future survival.
✔✔Captive breeding programs - ✔✔Raising and breeding organisms in controlled
conditions, such as zoos or aquariums
✔✔pros of captive breeding - ✔✔Captive breeding saves animals from extinction,
disease, and other threats., Captive breeding provides better living conditions,
Economic resource - promoting tourism and employment., Helpful for scientific
research.
✔✔cons of captive breeding - ✔✔Not all animals do well in captive breeding., It's
expensive., Animals born in captivity often have to stay in captivity all their lives., A
single program or zoo cannot keep and sustain the entire species.
✔✔Habitat Conservation - ✔✔A plan that attempts to protect one or more species
across large areas of land through trade-offs or cooperative agreements
✔✔Rewilding - ✔✔Large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting core
wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or
reintroducing apex predators and keystone species.
✔✔extractive reserves - ✔✔Areas of land, often forest, that are protected for extractive
uses by local groups; one of the best known is in the Amazon Rainforest and named for
Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper who organized resistance to deforestation by ranchers
and was murdered in 1988
, ✔✔national parks - ✔✔One form of reserve that is intended to protect natural and
scenic areas of national or international significance for scientific, educational and
recreational use
✔✔nature reserves - ✔✔Protected areas of land where building, poaching and and
farming are restricted. Usually run by government agencies.
✔✔Conservation Zones - ✔✔Areas designated with the aim to protect nationally
important, rare or threatened habitats and species. No development is allowed. In
marine zones people cannot fish there.
✔✔protected areas - ✔✔geographic spaces on land or at sea that are recognized,
dedicated, and managed to achieve long-term conservation of nature
✔✔Impact of deforestation on Amazon soil - ✔✔Deforestation of the rainforest has had
several impacts. The soil in the rainforest is very nutrient poor. Farmers burn the
vegetation to return some of the nutrients from the trees to the soil but they are depleted
very quickly as there is no new natural vegetation to replace it. Additionally, by removing
trees from the rainforest you allow the soil to easily erode away causing siltation in the
water (turbid water where photosynthesis cannot happen and there are low oxygen
levels), and you can also have events such as mudslides and landslides because there
are no roots to hold the soil in place.
✔✔Impact of deforestation of the Amazon on global climate change - ✔✔By removing
trees from the rainforest you are increasing global climate change. First, the trees are
carbon sinks (they take in carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere which is a greenhouse
gas. Second, removing the trees takes machinery which also give off greenhouse
gasses.
✔✔sustainable harvesting - ✔✔Using natural resouces at a rate where nature can
replenish them.
✔✔food security - ✔✔when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic
access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life
✔✔Impacts of food insecurity (7) - ✔✔•regional food scarcity • nutritional deficiency and
malnutrition • poverty • forced migration • conflict • famine • death
✔✔subsistence agriculture - ✔✔Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct
consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
✔✔4 strategies for improved agricultural techniques and efficiency - ✔✔- aquaculture
and hydroponics - use of selective breeding and genetically modified (GM) crops to
