EDA3046 - EXAM PREP

EDA3046 – EXAM REVISION PART 1 QUESTIONS TAKEN FROM EXAM PAPERS FROM O/N 2011 – 2016 ANSWERS USED: DROPBOX, TUTORIAL LETTERS, THE NEW LEARNING REVOLUTION (old & new) AND THE YOUNG CHILD IN CONTEXT (old & new) AND PERSONAL ANSWERS. NOTES COMPILED BY JULES KHOMO (Semester 1 2017) # QUESTION YEAR ALL DEFINITIONS (these definitions have been asked between M/J 2012 until O/N 2016) Environment ● The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. A fellow Unisa student asks you about the concept “environment”. Explain what you should say in your explanation. ● The environment is everything around us including the interaction and influence of political, social, economical and biophysical dimensions of life. ● Everything around us is part of the environment which is shaped by our attitudes, values and decisions towards it. Environmental education SG page 6 ● Deals with education FOR the environment ● creating positive attitudes towards the environmental # QUESTION YEAR ALL ● It is concerned with actions taken or skills learned to prevent environmental problems E- tutor notes ● It is the study of everything around us (our surroundings) and the effects it has on us. ● organized efforts which teach how natural environment function and human beings manage their behaviour and ecosystems in order to live sustainably ● It deals with education thereby creating a positive attitude towards the environment Environmental studies SG page 6 ● Studies ABOUT the environmental ● Aspects of the environment such as geography, biology, physics etc are studied as fields of study. Holistic environment ● emphasizes the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. ● The environment is seen in totality ● Environmental education considers the environment holistically, which include the biophysical, social, economic and political dimensions. Ecosystem PB Page ● a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. # QUESTION YEAR ALL ● It is all living things, from plant and animals to microscopic organisms, which share an environment. Ecology SG page 44 Brief summary ● the scientific study of the distributions, abundance and relations of organisms and their interactions with the environment ● Ecology includes the study of plant and animal populations, plant and animal communities and ecosystems. Summary Ecology is the interaction between living organisms and their environment, as well as the interrelationship between living organisms. Interaction of living organisms in Rural Areas (SG :45) Interaction can occur between: ● Plants and other plants (bird-lime grows on some thorn trees), ● Plants and animals (e.g. cattle eat grass), ● Animals and other animals (cheetah hunt impala), ● Between animals and components of the physical environment (animals drink water and absorb