Chapter 1
What is ecology the study of?
What is organisms and how they interact with their environment.
What is the control group?
What is the group that does not receive the experimental treatment?
List the three physical layers of the earth from the core to the crust.
What is core, mantle, crust.
Can a theory become a law with more evidence.
What is no.
What are the types of consumers?
What is producer, consumer, decomposer, and scavenger.
What is Environmental Science?
What is the study of how humans interact with the environment.
What is the experimental group.
What is the group that receives the experimental treatment.
What are local effects of volcano eruptions?
Clouds of hot ash, dust, gasses, and mudflows.
What is a theory?
A scientific theory is a well-supported testable explanation of the physical world.
What is the difference of food chains and food webs?
Food chains are showing interactions between organisms with one chain, food webs are many chains.
What is agriculture the practice of?
What is growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals.
Describe the steps of the experimental method.
what is make a hypothesis, make a prediction, test the experiment, make an conclusion, communicate the results.
What are global effects of a volcanic eruption.
what is change in the earths climate.
What islands did charles darwin study finches on.
Galápagos Islands
________________ is an unequal survival and reproduction that results from the presence of absence of a particular trait.
Natural selection
What is the difference between environmental science and ecology?
Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with their environment and each other. Environmental science is the study of how humans interact with the environment.
Explain why hypothesis is not a guess.
What is because because it has a lot of evidence to support it and make it true.
Where do earthquakes occur?
What is areas that are near major tectonic plate boundaries.
Who proposed that all species are perfect in there current form.
Plato
What is one way the bacteria and fungus are important to the environmen.
They break down dead organic matter.
List the five major fields of study that contribute to environmental science.
What is Biology, Earth science, Physics, Chemistru, Social sciences.
Name the importance of three scientific habits of mind.
Describe how wind and water alter the earth’s surface.
What is wind can blow skin away quickly and can erode soft rock, waves van erode, and carve deep canyons.
Who observed that species can be arranged in increasing complexity
Aristotle.
Bacteria , fungi, and plants share what characteristic.
What is cell wall.