Review the following:
1.1: Environmental Value Systems
1.2: Systems and Models
1.3: Energy and Equilibria
1.4: Sustainability
1.5: Humans and Pollution
1.1: Environmental Value Systems
- Significant historical events
- Environmental value systems
- Ecocentric, Anthropocentric, Technocentric
- Deep Ecologists, Self-reliance Soft Ecologists, Environmental Managers, Cornucopians
1.2: Systems and Models
- System (construct a system diagram from a given set of information)
- storages, flows (inputs and outputs, transfers and transformations)
- system diagrams
- open, closed, isolated systems
- Models (evaluate the use of models as a tool)
- strengths and limitations
1.3: Energy and Equilibria
- Laws of Thermodynamics
- Steady-state equilibrium
- Tipping points
- Positive and Negative feedback
1.4: Sustainability
- Natural capital and natural income (explain the relationship between natural capital, natural income and sustainability)
- Ecosystem goods and services (value to society)
- Sustainable development
- Ecological footprints
- Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
- EIAs (purpose, stages, steangths and limitations)
1.5: Humans and Pollution
- organic, inorganic, energy (light, sound, thermal), biological agents, invasive species
- non-point or point source, persistent or biodegradable, acute or chronic
- DDT (evaluate the uses)
- Pollution management strategies (effectiveness at each level)
Below are practice questions if you want to get an idea of the types of questions you may be asked. I have also included the answers!
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