ESS - Topic 1.1 - EVS

Which of the following is an example of an anthropocentric value system (EVS)

• The Green Revolution introducing modern farming equipment to South Asia

• Earth First protestors chaining themselves to trees to prevent logging

• Planting genetically modified golden rice to improve rice production in south east Asia

• The UN Rio Earth Summit agreement on international sustainable development

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

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Which one of the following options is not an input into an EVS?

• Decision

• Media

• Education

• Religion

What did the industrial revolution not cause?

• Human population growth

• Clean air

• Build up of CO2 in the atmosphere

• Epidemics of cholera and typhoid

Rachel Carson is famous for....

• Helping scientists study and understand biomagnification of toxins in food webs

• Making the public aware of the dangers of using DDT as a pesticide in her book 'Silent Spring'

• Starting the modern environmental movement

• All of these

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

An Environmental Value System (EVS) can be viewed as a system as it has inputs, outputs and feedback mechanisms. Correctly select examples of inputs and outputs from the following examples:
I. Personal decisions

II. EDucation

III. Personal action

IV. Personal experiences

V. Media

• Inputs: I, II, IV - Outputs: III, V

• Inputs: II, IV, V - Outputs: I, III

• Inputs: I, III, V - Outputs: II, V

• Inputs: II, V - Outputs: I, III, IV

An Environmental Value System (EVS) is a worldview that shapes the way an individual or group of people, percieves and evaluates environmental issues, influenced by...

• Religious contexts

• Cultural contexts

• Economic contexts

• All of these

Preventing land from development by setting it aside as a nature preserve (National Park) in order to preserve biodiversity for the future, is an example of which EVS?

• Technocentric & Anthropocentric

• Technocentric

• Ecocentric

• Anthropocentric

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which EVS argues that the saving the environment cannot happen at the expense of the econmy

• Both Technocentric & Anthropocentric

• Technocentric

• Ecocentric

• Anthropocentric

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that defines an Ecocentric EVS?

• Greater self-sufficiency of local communities

• A less materialistic approach to life

• Educating the public on biorights of flora and fauna

• Discussion and debate leads to informed community agreements on environmental solutions

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

Which of the following is an example of a Technocentric EVS?

• Increasing fines for polluters

• Subsidising the development and instalation of cheaper and more efficient solar panels

• Educating the public on biorights of species in the Amazon Rainforest

• Government's imposing a carbon tax on burning fossil fuels

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3