ED1231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Non-Renewable Resource, Social Sustainability, Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Science, Technologies and Enterprise
Review Questions
Table of Contents
Environmental Science, Technologies and Enterprise ................................................................................. 1
Review Questions ........................................................................................................................................................ 1
Week One ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Week Two ................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Week Three .............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Week Four ................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Week Five ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Week Six ................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Week Seven ............................................................................................................................................................ 13
Week Eight ............................................................................................................................................................. 17
Week Nine .............................................................................................................................................................. 18
Week Ten ............................................................................................................................................................... 19
Week Eleven .......................................................................................................................................................... 20
Week Twelve.......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Week Thirteen ........................................................................................................................................................ 22
Vocabulary ............................................................................................................................................................. 23
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Week One
1. What are the four basic causes of environmental problems?
o Population growth – 25%
o Consumerism (Wasteful and unsustainability resource use)
o Poverty
o Failure to include the cost of disposing products when purchasing
2. What are the three goals of environmental science?
o Understand how life on Earth survived and thrived for a long time.
o Explore how we Interact and understand the environment.
o Define ways to deal with environmental problems and live more sustainable.
3. Do you think you are living unsustainably? Explain. If so, what are the three most environmentally unsustainable
aspects of your lifestyle? List two ways in which you could apply each of the three principles of sustainability (Fig 1-
2) to making your lifestyle more environmentally sustainable.
o Nature’s Survival strategies
• Solar energy (Sun)
• Bio-diversity (Key to sustain life)
• Chemical Cycling (Part of how life survives – Water cycle etc)
o Sustainability
• Meeting the needs of today without affecting the needs of tomorrow
4. What do you understand by the term ‘technology’? What are your images, concepts and about technology in
general, and how does technology fit in with your life and society as a whole? Record your key ideas.
o The use of technology as an educational tool
o Major part of daily life and can be easily integrated into different learning areas to support the
learning of children
Week Two
1. How would you describe the organisation of the WA Technologies Curriculum to a group of interested parents? You
may like to consider the aims and rationale for teaching technologies
o Aims
• Investigate, design, plan, manage, create, and evaluate solutions
• Form students that are creative, innovative, and enterprising when using traditional,
contemporary, and emerging technologies, and understanding how technologies have
developed over time
• Creating preferred futures
o http://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/p-10-curriculum/curriculum-
browser/technologies/technologies-overview/rationale
2. Draw a diagram explaining the syllabus organisation and list some of the key features
3. How would you describe the difference between the two Technologies subjects?
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4. Consider the General capability – Critical and Creative Thinking – Describe how teaching Technologies assists
students in developing these skills
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Document Summary
Record your key ideas: the use of technology as an educational tool, major part of daily life and can be easily integrated into different learning areas to support the learning of children. You may like to consider the aims and rationale for teaching technologies: aims. Investigate, design, plan, manage, create, and evaluate solutions. Distinguish among environmental science, ecology, and environmentalism: define and distinguish between a biosphere and an ecosystem. Distinguish between the living and the non-living components in ecosystems and give two examples of each. What are two other terms used to describe these ecosystem components: distinguish between terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems and give an example of each. Distinguish between an organism and a species: define natural capital. Describe how we can degrade natural capital and how finding solutions to environmental problems involves making tradeoffs. Natural resources: air, water oil, sand, land, light.
