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