Topic 1: Foundation (part 2)
14 review questions with answers for Topic 1: Foundation (part 2), marked SL. Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Feedback that inhibits the original process, counteracting change and stabilizing the system?
- Positive feedback loop
- Negative feedback loopRight answer
- Emergent properties
- Sustainable development
All 14 questions and answers
Feedback that inhibits the original process, counteracting change and stabilizing the system?
Answer: Negative feedback loop
Feedback that amplifies a disturbance, destabilizing the system away from equilibrium?
Answer: Positive feedback loop
The minimum amount of change within a system that will destabilize it, causing it to reach a new equilibrium?
Answer: Tipping point
Large, persistent reorganization of an ecosystem's structure and function, e.g. coral reef to algae-dominated reef, after a tipping point is crossed?
Answer: Regime shift
Condition of an open system in which inputs and outputs balance over the long term, with only small short-term fluctuations?
Answer: Steady-state equilibrium
A simplified representation of reality used to understand and predict system behaviour?
Answer: Model
Properties that arise from component interactions but absent in the components individually?
Answer: Emergent properties
A system's capacity to resist and recover from disturbance without crossing a tipping point?
Answer: Resilience
Lovelock's model of Earth as one integrated system regulated by life through feedback mechanisms?
Answer: Gaia hypothesis
The extent to which practices allow long-term viability of a system for future generations?
Answer: Sustainability
Meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own (Brundtland, 1987)?
Answer: Sustainable development
Sustainability pillar focused on managing natural resources so they can be replaced and ecosystems can recover?
Answer: Environmental sustainability
Sustainability pillar focused on health, education, equity and community structures?
Answer: Social sustainability
Sustainability pillar focused on economic structures that meet human needs long-term?
Answer: Economic sustainability
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.