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IB ESS Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025 Ecocentric - ANSWERSpure ecology & nature is central to humanity and emphasizes a less materialist approach to life with greater self-sufficiency of societies Technocentric - ANSWERSbelieves that technological development can provide solutions to environmental problems Anthropocentric - ANSWERSbelieves humans must sustainably manage the global system Environmental Manager - ANSWERSbelieve governments need to legislate to protect envir...

Ecocentric correct answers pure ecology & nature is central to humanity and emphasizes a less materialist approach to life with greater self-sufficiency of societies Technocentric correct answers believes that technological development can provide solutions to environmental problems Anthropocentric correct answers believes humans must sustainably manage the global system Environmental Manager correct answers believe governments need to legislate to protect environment and resources from...

ENWC201 Final Exam Questions And Answers goods, services, information, psych-spiritual - ANS What are the four categories of instrumental/utilitarian values? something has the right to exist - ANS what are intrinsic values of biodiversity people will act selfishly and do something that benefits them even if it's not in everyone's long term interest - ANS what is the tragedy of the commons? anthropocentric - ANS view of biodiversity that only has a view as a means to hu...

1st Law of Thermodynamics correct answers Principle of conservation of energy, which states that energy in an isolated system can be transformed but cannot be created nor destroyed 2nd Law of Thermodynamics correct answers Energy is transformed through energy transfers. An increase in entropy arising from energy transformations reduces the energy available to do work. albedo correct answers amount of incoming solar radiation reflected back into the atmosphere by the Earth's surface ant...

ENWC201 Final Exam Questions With Complete Solutions goods, services, information, psych-spiritual What are the four categories of instrumental/utilitarian values? something has the right to exist what are intrinsic values of biodiversity people will act selfishly and do something that benefits them even if it's not in everyones long term interest what is the tragedy of the commons? anthropocentric view of biodiversity that only has a view as a means to human ends biocentric view of bi...

Environmental Science Exam 1 Practice Test Questions & Answers 2023/2024 When a new species evolves as a result of geographic isolation it is referred to as A. sympatric speciation B. Natural Speciation C. Allopatric Speciation D. Resource partitioning - ANSWER-C Gifford Pinchot believed that resources should be used for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time and thus he practiced A. Biocentric preservation B. Utilitarian conservation C.Holistic preservatio...

rmp 511 (1)Free (Snyder) - correct answer Must take on things as they are and and be grateful for the impermanence of the "freedom" this grants us Nature (Snyder) - correct answer It is not a place it is home....Physical universe and all it's properties. Wilderness (Snyder) - correct answer Largely defined by what is is not....can also be defined by what it is Wilderness (Snyder) - correct answer A place of wholeness : Wild land, wasteland, space of sea or air, place of danger or dif...

abiotic factors - Nonliving components of environment. abundance - total number of organisms in a community allopatric speciation - The formation of new species in populations that are geographically isolated from one another. anthropocentric worldview - A worldview that focuses on human welfare and well-being. biocentric worldview - A worldview that considers human beings to be just one of many species on Earth, all of which have equal intrinsic value. Biomes - large area that has a part...

interpretive approach correct answers the view that the way we use our environment and resources is determined by already set ideologies. (world view, religion, ritual, classification systems). These control the way people interact with environment. ex) four rationalities 'myths of nature' materialist approach correct answers the view that material forces drive the cultural system. (subsistence, technology, productive arrangements). ex) nomadic/ indigenous peoples. Move around based on wh...