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WorksheetsIB ESS 1.1 Environmental Values Systems
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who wrote the book Silent Spring, considered by many to have been key in the banning of DDT and the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency?
(a)
Which of these could be considered inputs into an EVS?
Education
Culture
Evaluations and decisions
Media
Consistent Actions
What term would be used to denote the value something has because it exists, rather than due to what it does or how it can be used by humans?
(a)
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?
(a)
Which EVS would argue that humans must sustainably manage the global system through taxes, regulation and legislation.
(a)
Which EVS would prioritise biorights and emphasise local level solutions based on self-restraint and education.
(a)
Which EVS would argue that environmental problems can be overcome by new technology?
(a)
Which of the following positions could be consistent with an ecocentric worldview?
Deep ecologists
Cornucopian
Biocentrists
Stewardship
Self-sufficiency
The use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture would suggest which viewpoint?
Technocentric
Ecocentric
Anthropocentric
Educational campaigning to reduce meat consumption would suggest which viewpoint?
Technocentric
Ecocentric
Anthropocentric
Legislation to impose fishing quotas would suggest which viewpoint?
Technocentric
Ecocentric
Anthropocentric
The IPCC, formed in 1988, carries out research and advises governments on what?
Conservation
Climate change
CFC use
Endangered species
The Montreal protocol (1987) was an international treaty regarding which pollutant?
Carbon dioxide
CFCs
Ozone
Sulphur dioxide
CITES is an international agreement that governs what?
Greenhouse gas emissions
Air pollution
Fishing
Trade in flora and fauna
Which of these are NGOs?
UN
WWF
OPEC
NATO
Greenpeace
Minamata disaster (1950s and 1960s) was caused by the discharge of industrial effluent containing which heavy metal?
(a)
The Bhopal disaster, considered the World's worst industrial accident, involved a methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leak from a plant manufacturing what product?
Fertiliser
Pesticides
Plastics
Nuclear weapons
The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 resulted in what type of pollution affecting large areas of Europe?
Mercury
Caesium 137
Radon
Sulphur dioxide
