Question Bank
An inquiry approach is a method often used in science education. The question bank provides an initial list of questions about Enviro-imprints and places where their answers can be found.
List of Question Bank items
Enviro-imprints
Use these thought-provoking questions to guide your exploration of the context and to provide additional insights.
- Q. Why do scientists use a bioassay?
- Q. What impacts do current farming methods have on our environment compared to those of the pre-European Māori?
- Q. Why measure an animal’s response to pollution in its environment when you can measure the actual amount of pollution itself?
- Q. Why is the acceptable level of a pollutant so much lower for a residential area than for a farming or industrial area?
- Q. What is the difference between a bioassay, a bioindicator and a biomarker?
- Q. Why do worms make a good biomarker for soil pollution?
- Q. How do scientists know that their models are actually modelling what they think they are modelling?
- Q. How do scientists calculate a health risk figure on the effects of pollution?
- Q. How do politicians put a monetary figure on the detrimental effects of pollution?
- Q. How does the weather affect the levels of pollutants in the air?
- Q. How do the issues affecting water in New Zealand differ from those in Australia or in the third world?
- Q. Why do scientists determine the amount of harmless bacteria rather than disease-causing organisms present in faecal matter?
- Q. How would knitting a cotton fibre into the cloth of a T-shirt make it less biodegradable?
