Question | Answer |
the____ was not direct result of the idustril revolution. | overhunting of the large mammals |
in which county is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly | kenya |
using scientific information from chemistry and biololgy to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describe | environmental science |
____ is a biodegradable meterial that becomesa pollutant if allowed to accumilae more rapidly than it can decompose | newspaper |
according to the law of supply and demand what would occur if the supply of oil declined and the demand remanined the same | ol price will increase |
in an ecological footprint is the | amount of land nand ocean area nedded to support one person |
in an experiment the facter of interist is called the | varaible |
curiosity and imaganation are important in science because they are | abilities in scientists that healp expand our knowledge |
the classification and collection of data that are in the form of numbers is called | statistics |
which step in the experimental method are scientists conductiong when they photograph dirds in flight | observing |
a model of a dinmosaur is an example of a _____ model | physical |
before you can make a decision using a decision-making modle what stepes must you take | explore the consequences of each opinion |
how did himalya mountains form | colliding tectonic plates |
which of the following are producers oof oxygen | plants |
the richter scale best describes the | magnitude of an erthquake |
which of the following is not one of the compositional layers of erth | mesosphere |
which of the following is not a mechanism of energy transfer through or within erth's atmosphere | condensation |
deep currents flow along the | ocean floor |
change in the gebetic characteristics in a popilation from one generationto the next | evolution |
process that causes the characteristics of a population to change in a way controlled by humanes | adaptation |
process that causes the characterictices of a population to change without human control | natural selection |
which invertebrates are generally smal allowing them to lie on little food and to hide from ememies | insects |
which of the following are vertebrates | frogs |
a desert ecosystem contains | air living things sand |
what kind of natural disaster helps some forest communitiesby alloming some trees to release their seeds by cleraring away deadwood and by encouraging new growth | fire |
which of the following are photosynthetic organisms | freshwater algae |
consumers are organisms that | get solar or other energy indirectly |
which kind of organisms obtains energy only from producers | herdivores |
what term is used to refer to the many feeding relationship that are possible in an ecosystem | food web |
what type of vegitation would you expect to find on an abandoned farm has remained undisturded for 150 yeas | tallmature oaktrees |
if you visitede you would likely see | largherds of grazing animales such as rhinos gazelles and giraffes |
animals that live in the desert | are usually nocturnal |
desert are | often formed on the dry side of mountain range |
the tundra | has a layer of soil that is permanently frozenbeneath the top soil |
taiga is | a forest biome dominationed by coniferous trees such as pine fir and spruce |
biomes | are usually described by thier vegetation |