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Question | Answer |
The _____ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution? | overhunting of large animals |
In which country is the population likkely to be increasing most rapidly? | Kenya |
Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes | environmental science |
______ is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumilate more rapidly than it can decompose | newspapaer |
____ describes the depletion of a renewable resource | intensice cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients |
The "Tragedy of the Commons" describes the conflict between | individuals and society |
An ecological footprint is ____ | amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person |
Compared to developing nations, developed nations have | greater personal wealth |
______ is a developing nation. | Ethiopia |
A resident of _______ is likely to leave the largest ecological footprint | the US |
In an experient, the factor of interest is called the ______ | control group |
Curiosity and imagination are important in science because they are | abilities in scientists that help 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 conducting when they photograph birds in flight? | observing |
A model of a dinosaur is an example of a ______ model | physical |
The average mass of a wolf in a pack of wolves is an example of ____ | sample size |
The chance that an earthquake will occur in your town during the next year is an example of ____ | risk |
a _____ is one type of graph that is particularly useful for organizing and comparing experimental data for several things in one graph | bar graph |
Good scientists demonstrate the habit of mind called ______ when the do not believe everything they are told | skepticism |
Numeric information called ____ is gathered in an experiment | data |
How did the Himalaya Mountains form? | colliding textonic plates |
What are wind and water erosion not likely to effect? | tides |
_____ are producers of oxygen | plants |
The ozone layer is located in the ______ | sratosphere |
The Richter scale best describes the | magnitude of an earthquake |
Deep currents flow along the | ocean floor |
With respect to energy, Earth is an | open system |
With respect to matter, Earth is a | closed system |
The boundary between warm and cold water in an ocean or lake is... | thermocline |
The transfer of energy through space is ___ | radiation |
Which of the following is not a ecosystem? | utility pole |
The energy in most ecosystems comes from... | sunlight |
What is not true about organism's habitat? | most organisms can survive if taking out of there habitat. |
Which of the following animals is successful beacuse it moves quickly, reproduces rapidly, and has waterproof external skeleton? | ant |
One wat that bacteria and fungi are importatnt to the environment is that they.... | break down dead organisms |
what is not a biotic factor? | air |
Single-celled with cell walls but no nuclius are? | bacteria |
A gymnosperm is a ... | plant |
Which kind of organism contains all energy from producers? | herbivores |
Which gas makes up 78% of our atmoshpere? | nitrogen |
If you visited a savanna what would you see? | grazzing animals, rhinos, gazelles |
Animals that lives in the desert .... | nocturnal |
Deserts are?? | often formed on dry sides of mountains |
The tundra ... | has a layer of soil that is frozen called permafrost |
Taiga is.. | a forest biomes that is dominated by conifer trees |
Biomes... | describes the types of vegitation |
Degrees measured from the north and south ofthe equator is measured in?? | latitude |
Which of the following is not a ecosystem? | utility pole |
The energy in most ecosystems comes from... | sunlight |
What is not true about organism's habitat? | most organisms can survive if taking out of there habitat. |
Which of the following animals is successful beacuse it moves quickly, reproduces rapidly, and has waterproof external skeleton? | ant |
One wat that bacteria and fungi are importatnt to the environment is that they.... | break down dead organisms |
what is not a biotic factor? | air |
Single-celled with cell walls but no nuclius are? | bacteria |
A gymnosperm is a ... | plant |
Which kind of organism contains all energy from producers? | herbivores |
Which gas makes up 78% of our atmoshpere? | nitrogen |
If you visited a savanna what would you see? | grazzing animals, rhinos, gazelles |
Animals that lives in the desert .... | nocturnal |
Deserts are?? | often formed on dry sides of mountains |
The tundra ... | has a layer of soil that is frozen called permafrost |
Taiga is.. | a forest biomes that is dominated by conifer trees |
Biomes... | describes the types of vegitation |
Degrees measured from the north and south ofthe equator is measured in?? | latitude |
Which of the following is not a ecosystem? | utility pole |
The energy in most ecosystems comes from... | sunlight |
What is not true about organism's habitat? | most organisms can survive if taking out of there habitat. |
Which of the following animals is successful beacuse it moves quickly, reproduces rapidly, and has waterproof external skeleton? | ant |
One wat that bacteria and fungi are importatnt to the environment is that they.... | break down dead organisms |
what is not a biotic factor? | air |
Single-celled with cell walls but no nuclius are? | bacteria |
A gymnosperm is a ... | plant |
Which kind of organism contains all energy from producers? | herbivores |
Which gas makes up 78% of our atmoshpere? | nitrogen |
If you visited a savanna what would you see? | grazzing animals, rhinos, gazelles |
Animals that lives in the desert .... | nocturnal |
Deserts are?? | often formed on dry sides of mountains |
The tundra ... | has a layer of soil that is frozen called permafrost |
Taiga is.. | a forest biomes that is dominated by conifer trees |
Biomes... | describes the types of vegitation |
Degrees measured from the north and south ofthe equator is measured in?? | latitude |
Swamps are found where? | flat, poorly drained land |
Estuaries | prevent developement of salt marshes. |
Which organism produces most of the food in aquatic ecosystem | phytoplankton |
ECosystem with the highest level of salinity | salt marshes |
Majority of marine life is where? | shallow and coatal waters |
Plakton form the base of? | food web |
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