Topic 1: Foundation (part 1)
14 review questions with answers for Topic 1: Foundation (part 1), marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
How an individual views a situation based on their assumptions, values and beliefs?
- System
- Worldviews
- Ecocentrism
- PerspectiveRight answer
All 14 questions and answers
How an individual views a situation based on their assumptions, values and beliefs?
Answer: Perspective
Principles a person considers important; they shape priorities, judgements and choices?
Answer: Values
Shared lenses through which groups perceive and act in the world, shaped by culture, religion and politics?
Answer: Worldviews
A model showing inputs that shape our perspectives and outputs (choices/actions) that result?
Answer: Environmental value system (EVS)
Worldview that believes technological developments can provide solutions to environmental problems?
Answer: Technocentrism
Worldview that places humans at the centre and holds that people must manage the environment sustainably, e.g. through regulation and taxes?
Answer: Anthropocentrism
Worldview that places intrinsic value on the natural world above human interests?
Answer: Ecocentrism
Research tool using questions to assess a social group's perspectives on environmental issues?
Answer: Values survey
A set of interacting components forming a functional whole, with storages and flows of energy/matter?
Answer: System
A holistic way of visualizing complex interactions in ecological or societal contexts?
Answer: Systems approach
A flow involving a change in the location of energy or matter?
Answer: Transfer
A flow involving a change in chemical nature, a change in state or a change in the form of energy?
Answer: Transformation
A system that exchanges both energy and matter across its boundary?
Answer: Open system
A system that exchanges only energy across its boundary?
Answer: Closed system
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.