What is sustainable development?
Meeting people’s needs today without reducing future generations’ ability to meet their own needs.
AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) — Chemistry — Foundation · 5.10.1.1
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What is sustainable development?
Meeting people’s needs today without reducing future generations’ ability to meet their own needs.
Why does the way humans obtain and process Earth’s resources matter over the long term?
Humans depend on those resources to meet their needs.
How can chemistry improve agricultural processes to support sustainable development?
By increasing useful production.
How can chemistry improve industrial processes to support sustainable development?
By making use of raw materials and energy more efficient.
How can chemistry reduce pressure on scarce resources?
By creating new products that reduce demand for them.
What four actions help you interpret numerical resource data in charts, graphs or tables?
Read values correctly, compare categories, identify patterns or trends, and draw conclusions about resource use or availability.
How do orders of magnitude help evaluate numerical differences in resource data?
They compare quantities using approximate powers of ten, helping judge whether a difference is slight or many times greater.