IB ESS Topic 1 Practice Exam

Nature-centered value system that views people as being under nature's control rather than in control of it.

• ecocentric

• anthropocentric

• technocentric

human-centered value system that places humans as the central species and assesses the environment from an exclusively human perspective

• ecocentric

• anthropocentric

• technocentric

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

technology-based value system that believes the brain power of humans will enable us to control the environment

• ecocentric

• anthropocentric

• technocentric

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

particular world view or set of paradigms that shapes the way individuals or societies perceive and evaluate environmental issues

• environmental movements

• environmental value systems

• environmental science

• environmental philosophies

The total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product.

• ozone layer

• coral bleaching

• ecological footprint

• carbon footprint

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A way of visualizing a complex set of interactions in ecology, society and another system.

• feedback loops

• biomes

• systems approach

• carbon cycle

This is defined as an assemblage of parts and the relationships between them that enable them to work together to form a functioning whole.

• system

• biome

• coral reef

• transformations

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Part of the Earth inhabited by organisms.

• geosphere

• atmosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

System that exchanges both matter and energy with its surroundings.

• open system

• closed system

• isolated system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The movement of matter through a food chain. The movement of energy as wind carries heat energy from one part of the world to another. The movement of matter as water flows from a river to a sea.

• transfer

• transformation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3