IB ESS Key terms (ALL) Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

IB ESS Key terms (ALL) Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Environmental Value System (EVS) - Correct Answer A worldwide view that shapes the way an individual or group of people perceive and evaluate environmental issues. Cornucopians - Correct Answer See the world as having infinite resources to benefit humanity Environmental Managers - Correct Answer See the earth as a garden that needs tending to Ecocentric - Correct Answer Believes that the views on earth are to simplistic. They also believe in preserving the earth Biocentric - Correct Answer All life has an inherent value, a value for themselves, not just of humans Deep Ecologists - Correct Answer More value on nature than humans Anthropocentric - Correct Answer Says that humans must sustainably manage the world Technocentric - Correct Answer Technology can fix all of our problems A system approach - Correct Answer Way of visualizing a complex set of interactions which may be ecological or societal Open system - Correct Answer Exchanges both energy and matter across the boundary Closed system - Correct Answer Only exchanges energy across a boundary Isolated system - Correct Answer Hypothetical concept in which neither energy nor matter is exchanged Transfers - Correct Answer Occur when energy or matter flows and changes location but does not change its state