ICSE Syllabus Environmental Science A

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (82)

(Candidates offering Environmental Applications are not eligible to offer Environmental Science.)

The subject deals with the interdependence of living things within their environment and provides an insight into the orderly interplay of factors influencing environmental change. The impact of human demands on renewable and non-renewable resources and the limited availability of these resources in nature, have been linked to correlate with patterns of human behaviour necessary to evolve a sustainable environmental paradigm.

Aims:

1. To acquire knowledge of the origin and functioning of the natural system and its correlation with the living world.

2. To develop an understanding that human beings, plants and animals are part of a natural phenomenon and are interdependent.

3. To appreciate the influence of human activity on natural processes.

4. To develop an awareness of the need and responsibility to keep the natural system in a condition that it sustains life.

5. To develop sensitivity in personal attitudes to environmental issues.

6. To develop an understanding of how local environments contribute to the global environment.

7. To develop a sense of responsibility and concern for welfare of the environment and all life forms which share this planet.

8. To develop a keen civic sense.

9. To develop a sound basis for further study, personal development and participation in local and global environmental concerns.

CLASS IX

There will be one paper of two hours duration carrying 80 marks and Internal Assessment of 20 marks.

The paper will have two Sections:

Section A (Compulsory) will contain short answer questions covering the entire syllabus.

Section B will contain six questions. Candidates will be required to answer any four questions from this section.

1. Understanding our Environment

(a) What is Environmental Science? What do we understand by ‘Environment’? What does the study of Environmental Science involve?

(b) What are our main environmental problems?

Environmental problems to be studied in terms of resource depletion, pollution and extinction of species.

(c) A global perspective of environmental problems.

To be studied with reference to the developed and developing countries.

(d) The root of environmental problems.

Population crisis and consumption crisis should be covered.

(e) A sustainable world.

Concept of sustainability to be explained; sustainable societies to be discussed. 

2. Living things in Ecosystems

(a) What is an ecosystem?

Concept of ecosystems to be explained; biotic and abiotic structures, organisms and species; populations, communities. 

(b) Habitat and ecological niche.

To be discussed in terms of address and function.

(c) How species interact with each other.

Interaction of species should be covered in terms of - predation, competition, parasitism,

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