ESS 1.1-1.3 Review

Which of these could be considered inputs into an EVS?

• Education

• Culture

• Evaluations and decisions

• Media

• Consistent Actions

James Lovelock was an early environmentalist who developed what theory that considered the whole planet to act as one complex system that maintains conditions required for life?

Which of the following positions could be consistent with an ecocentric worldview?

• Deep ecologists

• Cornucopian

• Biocentrists

• Stewardship

• Self-sufficiency

Legislation to impose fishing quotas would suggest which viewpoint?

• Technocentric

• Ecocentric

• Anthropocentric

A set of interrelated parts working together to make a complex whole is called ____.

• the surroundings

• the system

• inputs

• outputs

Everything external of the system that could reasonably interact with the it is called ____.

• the surroundings

• processes

• inputs

• outputs

When energy or matter flows and changes location but does NOT change its state (matter) or type (energy), this is called a(n) ____.

• transfer

• transformation

• process

• output

When energy or matter moves from one place to the other AND changes its state (matter) or type (energy), this is called a(n) ____.

• transfer

• transformation

• process

• output

Chemical energy in the form of sugars moving from a herbivore to a carnivore is an example of a(n) ___.

• transfer

• transformation

• process

• output

The majority of all systems in nature are ___.

• open systems

• closed systems

• isolated systems

• stores