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IB ESS Topic 1, Top Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+

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IB ESS Topic 1, Top Exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+ Environmental Value Systems (EVSs) - ✔✔-a particular worldview or set of paradigms that shapes the way individuals or ... societies perceive and evaluate environmental issues Environmental movement - ✔✔--influential individuals: media publications -independent pressure groups: awareness campaigns -corporate businesses: using resources such as coal -governments: policy decisions -intergovernmental bodies: influencing governments Environmental worldview - ✔✔--view of the world is formed from experiences -background, culture, education and society Ecocentric - ✔✔-a nature-centred value system that views people as being under nature's control rather than in control of it. Anthropocentric - ✔✔-a human-centred value system that places human as the central species and assesses the environment from an exclusively human perspective. Technocentric - ✔✔-a technologically-based value system that believes the brain power of humans will enable us to control the environment. Cornucopians - ✔✔--extreme technocentrists -think the world has infinite resources -technology can solve any environmental issue Environmental managers - ✔✔--Earth is a garden that needs tending -stewardship, ethical duty to look after the earth -the government need to make legislations to protect the world Biocentric - ✔✔--all life has an inherent value, not just for humans -we shouldn't cause extinction of other species -praise small communities Deep ecologists - ✔✔--nature has more value than humanity -humans have no right to interfere with nature -wants a decrease in human population/ humans to consume less Carbon Footprint - ✔✔-is the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product (UK Carbon Trust 2008) Systems Approach - ✔✔-a way of visualizing a complex set of interactions in ecology, society or another system. System - ✔✔-is defined as an assemblage of parts and the relationships between them that enables them to work together to form a functioning whole. Biomes - ✔✔-are groups of ecosystem with similar climates. Biosphere - ✔✔-is the part of the Earth inhabited by organisms, and it extends from the upper atmosphere to the depths of the Earth's crust. Open System - ✔✔--exchanges both matter and energy w [Show More]

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