Topic Test 3 Flashcards
What is system thinking?
System thinking involves looking at a system as a whole rather than focusing on its individual parts.
System thinking provides a framework for looking at the interrelationships of these individual parts.
D.P.S.I.R model with definitions?
Drivers: The forces that drive human activities that cause climate change
Pressures: human activity placing stress on the environment.
State: the state or condition on the environment.
Impact: What effects of the environment damage on the continued functioning ecosystems and earth life support.
Response: policy makers of society undesired impact on the environment.
Definitions of components of the biophysical environment.
Atmosphere: mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases that surround the earth.
Hydrosphere: all the water on the earth
Lithosphere: crust and upper mental of the earth.
Biosphere: the regions of the surface and atmosphere.
Cryoshere: where the water is solid.
How do totems work?
Each individual’s has a totem that represents special plants, animals and places people cannot eat their particular totems and must ensure the population is sustained.
Describe the attach meant of indigenous people to their environment?
Indigenous people have a vast knowledge of the natural world and its resources that is past down through generations. To sustain this world they use a vast dune system and hunt over a large area.
What are the three world views?
Western(human): focus on the individual and economic world and see humans as a superior being.
Stewardship: that are between the western and Eco world views. They support Eco benefits and economic growth while they discourage environmentally harmful forms.
Eco: see humans as one species of many and they don’t find western world views as anything and the world is one.
What shapes an individual’s world view
The relationship that gives a person how the world works and a sense of right and wrong behaviours.
Identify the world views and show the difference.
They are different because stewardship supports both human and Eco. Human is they are superior beings and stand for economic growth. Eco is human are one of many species and the world is one.
Increasing material demand of a growing world population are a problem.
The want for more things from the growing populations are causing climate change from the burning of fossil fuels and the lack of resources.
The big shift from rural to urban living is seen as a positive development?
The move from rural to urban becoming positive because people are getting a better education so the futility rate is going down.
