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IB ESS Revision Exam Prep Question section and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+

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IB ESS Revision Exam Prep Question section and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+ Environment - ✔✔-The external surroundings that act on an organism, population, or community and influence its survival and development. Environmental value(s system) - ✔✔-This is a worldview or paradigm that shapes the way an individual, or group of people, perceives and evaluates environmental issues. Minamata disaster/disease - ✔✔-This is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. The Chico Corporation built a chemicals factor in Minamata, Japan. However, the by-product was methylmercury, which bioaccumulated in the bodies of humans, causing mercury poisoning Chernobyl - ✔✔-In Kiev, Ukraine, an explosion and fire happened when the reactor vessel containing the uranium radioactive material split--thus exposing the graphite moderator to aide which caused it to catch fire. Then the reactor went into uncontrollable meltdown and a cloud of highly radioactive material from this drifted over much of Russia and Europe as far west as Wales and Scotland. Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) - ✔✔-She is considered an influential individual because because the publication of her book, Silent Spring, raised issues and started debates about the use of DDT. Significance: General acceptance of dangers of chemical toxins affecting humans. The pesticide DDT is banned. David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) - ✔✔-An Inconvenient Truth was a documentary made in 2006 that helped raise awareness on climate change/global warming as a result of human activities. This was an inspiration to Al Gore (former US vice-president) to become more involved in environmental issues. Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac) - ✔✔-His book A Sand County Almanac is a reason why he is considered an influential individual. He helped raise issues and start debates on environmental ideas. He promoted a "Land Ethic" in which humans are ethically responsible for serving as the protectors of nature. Significance: The concept of "stewardship" is applied to nature. 1949. Chipko Movement (Chipko andolan) - ✔✔-A nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging. Biorights - ✔✔-Universal rights where all species and ecosystems

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