Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Jonathan F.
Enviromental science Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which country is most likely to have either a stablished or slowly growing Population? | Canada |
| What are sunlight, air, forests, minerals, and water? | Natural Resources |
| Why is the world's loss of biodiversity a concern? | Humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen |
| What is a biodegradable material that becomes pollutant if allowed to accumulate more rapidly that it can decompose? | Newspaper |
| According to the law of supply and demand, what would happen if the supply of oil declined and demand remained the same? | Oil prices would increse |
| What is the introduction of harmful levels of chemicals or wastes into the environment called? | Pollution |
| When the last of a species died what is said to have occured? | Extinction |
| Residents of what counries make up about 80 percent of the world's total population? | Developing |
| What pollutant is harmful material that cannot be broken down by natural processes? | Biodegradable |
| What is the main reason that species are being lost to extinction? | Because they are being hunted more rapidly than they can reproduce |
| 11.What is the classification and collection of Data that are in the form of numbers called? | Statistics |
| 12.The group that does not receive the experimental treatment in an experiment is? | control group |
| 13. What is the chance that an event will happen called? | Probability |
| 14.What is numeric information called? | Data |
| 15.In Statistics, what is the group of individuals used to represent the population called? | Sample |
| 16. Equations used to represent how a scientific process works are called? | Mathematical |
| 17.What is a Mathematical model? | it's an equation that rep. how a process works |
| 18.What is a graphical model? | it's something that includes maps and charts |
| 19.What are principles or standards we consider important known as? | Values |
| 20.What can explain an observation and predict what might happen in the future? | Theory |
| 21.what is the Ozone made up of? | 3 oxygen atoms |
| 22.How did the Himilaya Mountains form? | colliding of tectonic plates |
| 23.What do deep currents flow along? | ocean floor |
| 24.With repect to matter, Earth is mostly? | a closed system |
| 25.What is a volcano built out of? | Magma |
| 26.With respect to energy, Earth is (a)? | Open system |
| 27.What is the transfer of energy trought space? | Radiation |
| 28.What is the total quantity of dissolved water in the ocean called? | salinity |
| 29.What are the pieces that compose the lithosphere? | Tectonic plates |
| 30.What is the thin outer layer of earth known as? | crust |
| 31.What is evolution? | change in the generic characteristics in a populalation from one generation to the next |
Created by:
johnny_62
Popular Science sets