Starter quiz
- What are some of the reasons why people waste food?
- People buy too much food and can’t use it all up. ✓
- Food goes out of date before it can be used. ✓
- Food lasts for a very long time and won't spoil.
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- You can reduce your carbon footprint by eating ______ red meat and dairy products.
- 'fewer' ✓
- Which of these would help to reduce food waste?
- getting a takeway
- freezing food ✓
- only making what you need ✓
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- To reduce your carbon footprint you could ______ air-freighted foods where you can and buy locally.
- 'avoid' ✓
- ______ is a measure of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of our activities.
- Food miles
- A carbon footprint ✓
- Climate change
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- Reducing food waste decreases the need for high levels of food production, which can ______ carbon emissions.
- 'lower' ✓
Exit quiz
- Biodiversity, also known as ‘biological diversity’, is the ______ of life on Earth.
- number
- variety ✓
- amount
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- Match the key word to its definition.
- rewilding⇔allows an area to restore itself to a natural state ✓
- conservation⇔the careful protection of something ✓
- pollinator⇔an animal or insect that helps transfer pollen from plants ✓
- ______ is a term used to describe climate change and global warming, and the impact of these on Earth
- 'climate crisis' ✓
- Why is biodiversity so important?
- it helps keep the water and soil healthy ✓
- it provides food, energy, shelter and medicines ✓
- it means there are lots of the same animal
- it provides opportunities for fun, rest and imagination ✓
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- Around the world, the variety of living things is ______.
- getting smaller ✓
- staying the same
- getting bigger
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- What is the biggest cause of biodiversity loss?
- pollution
- overfishing
- changes in land use ✓
- climate change
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Key learning points
- The demand for resources for land, water, food, and shelter shapes the environment for other wildlife too.
- Many animal populations have become much smaller, but a few have increased, thanks to conservation and rewilding.
- Pollinator insects – bees, wasps, beetles, flies, ants and butterflies – play an important role in agriculture.
Common misconception
Children may assume that biodiversity means the total population of a species.
Biodiversity is is the variety of all living things on Earth.
Keywords
Climate crisis - Climate crisis is a term used to describe climate change and global warming, and the impact of these on Earth.
Conservation - Conservation is the careful protection of something.
Rewilding - Rewilding allows an area to restore itself to a natural state in which wildlife can return without human intervention.
Pollinator - A pollinator is an animal or insect that helps transfer pollen from plants.
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