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Emily Hudson
Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the _ periods, humans altered their habitats. | hunter-gatherer, Industrial Revolution, agriculture revolution. |
| _ is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumlate more rapidly than it can decompose. | Newspaper |
| Which country is MOST likely to have either a stabilized or a slowly growing populations? | Canada |
| Which Country is the population likely to be incresing moat rapidly? | Kenya |
| The _ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution? | overhunting of large animals. |
| According to the law of supply and demand, what would occur if the supply of oil declined and the demand remained the same? | oil prices would increase. |
| What is an ecological footprint? | amount of land and oean area needed to support one person. |
| A resident of _ is likely to leave the largest ecological footprint. | The United States |
| Most of today's enviromental problems began during which period in human history? | Industrial Revolution |
| What is it called when the last member of a species dies is said ot have what occured? | Extinction |
| The classification of data that are in the form of numbers is called? | Statistics |
| The chance that an earthquake will occur in your town during the next year is an example of? | risk |
| What essential characteristic does a good experiment have? | a single variable is tested, and a control is used. |
| A model of a dinasour is a good example is a what type of model? | Physical |
| The chance that an event will happen is known as a? | Probability |
| What can explain an observation and predict what might happen in the future? | Theory |
| THe first step in the decision-making model is to do what? | Gather info |
| What is a logical statement about what will happen? | prediction |
| what is human leisure activities? | recreational |
| what is the testable explantion for an obsevation? | Hypothosis |
| The richter scale is used by scientist to measure the amount of energy released by a what? | earthquake |
| what is a fault break in the earth called? | crust |
| the most abundent gas in the earths atmosphere is? | nitrogen |
| Volcanoes occure at tetonic plate boundriesa that are? | coliding, and seperating from one another. |
| what is the part of the earth that contains the air that we breathe called? | atomosphere |
| the removal and transport of surface material by water and wind is known as what? | erosion |
| what is earth? | closed system |
| transfer of energy to space is? | radiation |
| the total quanity of dissolved salts in the ocean is? | salinity |
| ozone is a molecule made up of what? | 3 oxygen atoms |
| what is a change in the genetic characteristicts in a population from one generation to the next? | evolution |
| what is a process that causes the chracteristicts of a population to change without human control? | natural selection |
| what is the process that causes the characteristicts of a population to change in a way controlled by humans? | artificial selection |
| a trait unintentionally selected by humans? | resistance |
| a trait that increases an organisms chance of survival? | adaptation |
| many angiosperms depend on animals for what? | polinating flowers and distributing their seeds. |
| the place that contains everything an organism needs is its? | habitats |
| algea are the type of organism in the kingdom of? | protista |
| animals that have backbones are? | vertebrates |
| animals that lack backbones are called? | invertabrates |
| What kind natural disater helps some forest communities by allowing some trees to release their seeds, by clearing away deadwood, and encouraging new growth? | fire |
| what is a photosynthic organism? | freswater alegea |
| what kind of plants is a pioneer species? | shrub |
| What organism is likely to be in the botton of the trophic level of a food chain? | algae |
| Bacteria and fungi are examples of a group of consumers called? | decomposers |
| durring a sucession, a final stable community is reffered to as a what? | climax community |
| Succession that occurs on a abandon farmland is called waht? | old-field succesion |
| consumers are organism that do what? | get solar or other energy directly |
| what type of vegetation would you except to find on an abandoned farm that has remained undisturbed fro 150 years? | tall, mature oak trees |
| succession is possible because? | a new species make the enviroment less suitable for previous ones |
| The classification of data that are in the form of numbers is called? | Statistics |
| The chance that an earthquake will occur in your town during the next year is an example of? | risk |
| What essential characteristic does a good experiment have? | a single variable is tested, and a control is used. |
| A model of a dinasour is a good example is a what type of model? | Physical |
| The chance that an event will happen is known as a? | Probability |
| What can explain an observation and predict what might happen in the future? | Theory |
| THe first step in the decision-making model is to do what? | Gather info |
| What is a logical statement about what will happen? | prediction |
| what is human leisure activities? | recreational |
| what is the testable explantion for an obsevation? | Hypothosis |
| The richter scale is used by scientist to measure the amount of energy released by a what? | earthquake |
| what is a fault break in the earth called? | crust |
| the most abundent gas in the earths atmosphere is? | nitrogen |
| Volcanoes occure at tetonic plate boundriesa that are? | coliding, and seperating from one another. |
| what is the part of the earth that contains the air that we breathe called? | atomosphere |
| the removal and transport of surface material by water and wind is known as what? | erosion |
| what is earth? | closed system |
| transfer of energy to space is? | radiation |
| the total quanity of dissolved salts in the ocean is? | salinity |
| ozone is a molecule made up of what? | 3 oxygen atoms |
| what is a change in the genetic characteristicts in a population from one generation to the next? | evolution |
| what is a process that causes the chracteristicts of a population to change without human control? | natural selection |
| what is the process that causes the characteristicts of a population to change in a way controlled by humans? | artificial selection |
| a trait unintentionally selected by humans? | resistance |
| a trait that increases an organisms chance of survival? | adaptation |
| many angiosperms depend on animals for what? | polinating flowers and distributing their seeds. |
| the place that contains everything an organism needs is its? | habitats |
| algea are the type of organism in the kingdom of? | protista |
| animals that have backbones are? | vertebrates |
| animals that lack backbones are called? | invertabrates |
| What kind natural disater helps some forest communities by allowing some trees to release their seeds, by clearing away deadwood, and encouraging new growth? | fire |
| what is a photosynthic organism? | freswater alegea |
| what kind of plants is a pioneer species? | shrub |
| What organism is likely to be in the botton of the trophic level of a food chain? | algae |
| Bacteria and fungi are examples of a group of consumers called? | decomposers |
| durring a sucession, a final stable community is reffered to as a what? | climax community |
| Succession that occurs on a abandon farmland is called waht? | old-field succesion |
| consumers are organism that do what? | get solar or other energy directly |
| what type of vegetation would you except to find on an abandoned farm that has remained undisturbed fro 150 years? | tall, mature oak trees |
| succession is possible because? | a new species make the enviroment less suitable for previous ones |
| evastating is? | burying in the ground |
| the distance between north and south of the equator as measured in degrees is called? | latitude |
| the main factor that determines what type of plant growth in a biome is ? | temp, and precipitation |
| biomes are what? | usually described by their vegitation |
| tropical rainforest are usual threatened by? | deforestation and the trae of rain forest plants and animals |
| what is the layer of the tropical rainforest that recieves the most snlight? | emergent |
| what plants in a particular biome have that help them survive in that biome? | adaptations |
| taiga is | a forest biome dominated by coniferous trees, such as pine fur and spruce. |
| deserts are | found only in north america |
| how are tundre biomes and desert biomes similar? | they have extreme climates |
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