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| 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 |