IB Environmental Systems and Societies
Unit 1 Test Study Guide
Inputs vs. Outputs vs. Processes - correct answer ✔✔Inputs: Media, school, peers, religion, culture,
family --> What influences you?
Outputs: decisions, actions, answers, choices, perspectives, view points --> What are the outcomes?
Processes: listening, rejecting, accepting, learning, thinking, deciding --> How did you come to your
conclusion?
Define EVS - correct answer ✔✔Environmental moral code; beliefs that inform attitudes & actions w/
regard to environment.
Examples of Influential Individuals, Independent Pressure Groups, and International Agencies - correct
answer ✔✔Influential Individuals: elected govt officials
Indep. Pressure Groups: national lobbyists, businesses, political parties, oil companies
International Agencies: Paris Climate Agreement, Greenpeace.
Define Technocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer
✔✔Nature: is a model, but can be replaced by tech when needed
Society: human health + well -being are central to decision-making
Economy: maintain overall total of human, built and natural capitals
Who Decides: tech experts
, Define Ecocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer ✔✔Nature:
environment conservation is central to decision-making
Society: humans are a part of nature
Economy: maintain natural capital, as well as overall total capital
Who Decides: empowerment; everyone can participate in decision-making.
Define Anthropocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer
✔✔Nature: environment is a resource humans use
Society: human health + well-being are central in decision-making
Economy: maintain overall total of human, built and natural capital
Who: elected government representatives
Define Deep Ecologist - correct answer ✔✔- Squirrels = Humans
- Concerns about impacts of human life
- Not all resources are for humans
Define Cornucopians - correct answer ✔✔- Earth's resources are infinite for humans
- Not concerned
- Believe humans can find ways out of any difficulty
List 4 Influential Individuals during the Golden Age of Conservation - correct answer ✔✔- Rachel Carson
- John Muir
Unit 1 Test Study Guide
Inputs vs. Outputs vs. Processes - correct answer ✔✔Inputs: Media, school, peers, religion, culture,
family --> What influences you?
Outputs: decisions, actions, answers, choices, perspectives, view points --> What are the outcomes?
Processes: listening, rejecting, accepting, learning, thinking, deciding --> How did you come to your
conclusion?
Define EVS - correct answer ✔✔Environmental moral code; beliefs that inform attitudes & actions w/
regard to environment.
Examples of Influential Individuals, Independent Pressure Groups, and International Agencies - correct
answer ✔✔Influential Individuals: elected govt officials
Indep. Pressure Groups: national lobbyists, businesses, political parties, oil companies
International Agencies: Paris Climate Agreement, Greenpeace.
Define Technocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer
✔✔Nature: is a model, but can be replaced by tech when needed
Society: human health + well -being are central to decision-making
Economy: maintain overall total of human, built and natural capitals
Who Decides: tech experts
, Define Ecocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer ✔✔Nature:
environment conservation is central to decision-making
Society: humans are a part of nature
Economy: maintain natural capital, as well as overall total capital
Who Decides: empowerment; everyone can participate in decision-making.
Define Anthropocentric in regards to Nature, Society, Economy, and Who Decides. - correct answer
✔✔Nature: environment is a resource humans use
Society: human health + well-being are central in decision-making
Economy: maintain overall total of human, built and natural capital
Who: elected government representatives
Define Deep Ecologist - correct answer ✔✔- Squirrels = Humans
- Concerns about impacts of human life
- Not all resources are for humans
Define Cornucopians - correct answer ✔✔- Earth's resources are infinite for humans
- Not concerned
- Believe humans can find ways out of any difficulty
List 4 Influential Individuals during the Golden Age of Conservation - correct answer ✔✔- Rachel Carson
- John Muir
