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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the period, humans altered their habitats. | hunter-gather, industrial revolution, agricultural revolution |
| In which country is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly. | Kenya |
| which country is most likely to have either a stabilised or a slowly growing population? | canada |
| All of the following issues involve enviromental science except | asking people questions about the cost of various resources |
| which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource? | intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients |
| why is the world's loss of biodiversity a source of concern? | humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen |
| which country is most likely to have either a stabilized or a slowly growing population? | canada |
| the "tragedy of the Commons" describes the conflict between | individuals and society |
| a sustainable world would be characterized by the | indefinite existence of human populations in a healthy and prosperous condition |
| An ecological footprint is the | amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person |
| The classification and collection of data that are in the form of numbers is called | statistics |
| the group that does not recieve the experimental treatment in an experiment is the | control group |
| in an experiment, the factor of interest is called the | variable |
| The adverage mass of a wolves is an example of | mean |
| A model of a dinosaur is an example of a ____ model | physical |
| The chance that an earthquake will occur in your town during the next year is an example of | risk |
| Which step in the experimental method are scientists conducting when they photograph birds in flight? | observing |
| before you can make a decision using a decision-making model, what step must you take? | all the above |
| Curiosity and imagination are important in sceience because they are | none of the above |
| What essential characteristics does a good experiment have? | A control group is given the experimental treatment |
| Which of the following is not one of the compositional layers of Earth? | mesospher |
| ozone is a molecule made up of? | 3 oxygen atoms |
| The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere is? | nitrogen |
| A fault is a break in the Earth's | Crust |
| How did the Himalaya Mountains form? | colliding tectonic plates |
| The boundary between warm and cold water in an ocean or lake is | thermocline |
| Volcanoes occur at tectonic plate boundaries that are | colliding and sepearating from one another |
| Deep currents flow along the | ocean floor |
| The Richter scale best describes the | magnitude of an earthquake |
| With respect to matter, Earth is mostly | a closed system |
| Which of the following is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem? | water |
| Natural selection is the unequal survival that results from the presence or absence of | particular behavior |
| Which of the following best describes a population? | members of the same species living in the same place at the same time |
| The place that contains everything an organism needs is its | habitat |
| a desert ecosystem contains | air, sand, living things |
| Bacteria that are no longer killed by an antibiotic have | evolved |
| Which of the following kingdoms includes algae? | fungi |
| Single-celled organisms with cell walls but no nuclei are | bacteria |
| Which two kingdoms contain organisms that can use energy from the sun to make food? | protists and plants |
| Which two kingdoms contain organisms that break down dead organisms? | fungi and plants |
| What kind of natural disaster helps some forest communities by allowing some trees to release their seeds, by clearing away deadwood, and by encouraging new growth? | fire |
| Which of the following are photosynthic organisms? | freshwater algae |
| Consumers are organisms that | get solar or other energy indirectly |
| Which kind of organism obtains energy only from producer? | herbivores |
| Where would an ecologist be least likely to go to study primary sucession? | Amazon Rain Forest |
| Which of the following is not a true statement about cellular respiration? | Sugar moleculoes are its primary products |
| What term is used to refer to the many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem? | food web |
| What type of vegetation would you except to find on an abandoned farm that has remained undisterbed for 150 years? | tall, mature oaktrees |
| sucession is possible because | new species make the enviroment less suitable for previous ones |
| which of the following statement is not correct? | consumers get their energy directly from the sun |
| Which of the following plants is likely to be a pioneer species? | lichen |
| Which of the following does not contain carboon from the bodies of plants and animals that died millions of years ago? | phosphate salts |
| What type of sucession occurs after a natural process such as a volcanic eruption or flood? | secondary sucession |
| Which gas makes up 78 percent of our atmosphere but can be used by plants only when transformed by bacteria first? | nitrogen |
| Which organism is likely to be in the bottom trophic level of a food chain? | algae |
| Animals that live in the desert | usually nocturnal |
| deserts are | often formed on dry sides of mountain ranges |
| biomes | usually discribed by their vegetation |
| which of the following adaptations are used by animals of the artic tundra | rodents burrow underground for winter protection |
| All of the following issues involve enviromental science except | asking people questions about the cost of various resources |
| sucession is possible because | new species make the enviroment less suitable for previous ones |
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