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WHAT EVS's STANDS FOR?

• A religious system of beliefs for personal salvation

• A worldwiew for individuals or groups to shape its perception and evaluation of environmental issues

• Personal philosophies of an individual

• A variety of significant historical influences among environmental issues

A significant historical influence on the development of the environmental movement could be...

• Berlin wall falling down

• The birth of Jesus of Nazareth

• Mankind first Moon landing

• Chernobyl's disaster (1986)

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Main players on the environmental movement could be...

• Independant Pressure groups

• All answers are correct

• Governments

• International bodies

Environmental philosophies on EVS's could be classified in...

• Environmental managers, soft ecologist and eccocentric

• Eccocentric, Anthropocentric and Technocentric

• Technochenctric, Soft Cornucopians and Eccocentric

• Eccocentric, Technochentric and Hard enviromentalist

Ecocentric EVS

• Place technology first

• see materialism as a life form

• puts nature and ecology as central for humanity

• support centralism decision making

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Select ALL that is true

• A model is a simple representation of a system

• Models are expensive!

• A toy car is a model of a real car

• A model helps you understand a system

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Heat is ___ of the system.

• an input

• a subsystem

• a trigger

• an output

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Models can be helpful in scientific investigations because

• it may not be possible to work with the real thing.

• they can be smaller and more manageable than the real thing.

• they can be safer to work with than the real thing.

• all of the above

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Scientists use ___________ to understand how systems work.

• models
• figures
• process
• energy

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The "Self-Reliant Soft Ecologist" has a world view that can be considered a mix of

• anthropocentric and technocentric

• anthropocentric and ecocentric

• technocentric and ecocentric

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