ECOLOGY
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What are the main ecological problems nowadays?
Explain the term “The greenhouse effect”.
What can you (individuals) do to protect the environment?
What is recycling?
Name a few possible changes or consequences of the change of
climate.
MARKETING
1. What is marketing?
2. What does a businessman have to take into the consideration when
analysing/testing a new business idea?
3. What kind of information do we need to gather before starting a new
business?
4. Which sources of information can the entrepreneurs use?
5. Explain the term “business incubator”.
ECOSYSTEMS
1. What is an ecosystem?
2. Explain the main functions of major parts of an ecosystem (soil, air,
sun, water).
3. Explain the term “a biome”.
4. What is a habitat?
5. Describe the functions of certain species within an ecosystem
(producers, consumers and decomposers).
RENEWABLE RESOURCES
1. What are natural resources and how do we divide them on the basis
of origin?
2. Enumerate non-renewable resources and renewable resources and
explain why former can and the later can’t be renewed?
3. Define solar and wind energy. Describe its major uses.
4. What is a biomass and how can it be used?
5. Which resources can be renewable or non-renewable and why?
SPATIAL PLANNING
1. What is spatial planning?
2. Explain the term “territorial cohesion”.
3. How is land used and how can it affect the environment if it is
uncontrolled?
4. Explain the term “ecological landscape planning”.
5. Explain the relationship between cities and the environment.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
1. What is sustainable development?
2. List the 3 components of sustainable development and enumerate
some concepts connected with each (for example: household needs,
equity, biodiversity…)
3. Why is economic sustainability the most important of the three
pillars?
4. What are the relations between the three types of sustainability?
5. Explain the term “Circles of sustainability”
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
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What are GM foods?
Name some advantages of GM foods.
Name 3 main problems connected with GM foods and explain them.
Labelling of GM foods.
What do you think about GM foods?
ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION
1. What is environmental remediation?
2. Explain the term “brown fields” and enumerate some reasons for
their pollution.
3. Explain the importance of site assessment of the polluted area which
is intended to be remediated.
4. Which environmental media can be remediated?
5. Compare the ex-situ and the in-situ remediation methods.
BENEFICIAL ORGANISMS
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Explain the 3 main functions of beneficial organisms.
What is the opposites of beneficial?
Name some beneficial organisms.
Explain the difference between the predators and parasites.
What is the aim of biological control?
ECOTOXICOLOGY
1. Explain the term ecotoxicology.
2. Explain the terms food chain and food web and their connection to
ecotoxicology.
3. What is the main aim / goal of ecotoxicological studies / approach?
4. Name some common environmental toxicants.
5. Explain the term ecotoxicological assessment and testing.