A carbon containing fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things
What is fossil fuels.
100
Trees are living things.
True
100
Name the two components of science
What is the systematic process and a summary of what scientists have already learned.
100
Define renewable resources.
What is naturally replenished resources over short periods of time.
100
Name four of the disciplines that contribute to the study of our interactions with the environment.
What is ecology, biology, economics, and geology.
200
Moral principles
What is ethics.
200
Nature makes natural resources at similar speeds.
What is false.
200
Providing quantitative data in this form is helpful to scientists
What are numbers.
200
Define environmental science.
What is the study of how the natural worlds works, how the environment affects humans, and how the humans affect the environment.
200
List three examples of nonliving things in the environment.
What is water, air, rocks...
300
A testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
What is hypothesis.
300
The tragedy of the commons refers to the overuse of unregulated resources.
What is true.
300
A variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is an independent variable.
300
Define controlled study.
What is an experiment or clinical trial in which two groups are used for comparison purpose.
300
If a large number of tests refute the scientists hypothesis must they:
A: repeat each test
B: publish a report
C: reject the test results
D: reject the hypothesis
What is D: reject the hypothesis.
400
A variable that changes in response to the conditions set in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable.
400
Peer review benefits the scientific community because it guards against faulty science which contaminated the literature on which all scientists rely.
What is true.
400
The goal of science is...
What is to discover how the rules of the natural world operates.
400
Define peer review.
What is the evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field.
400
Give one reason why an idea is not a theory.
What is ideas are not tested.
500
The environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required.
What is an ecological footprint.
500
The Industrial Revolution marked a shift from a rural society to an urban society powered by renewable resources.
What is false.
500
This helps scientists examine the workings of the natural world.
What is collecting data.
500
Define sustainable.
What is able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply.
500
Explain what science is.
What is an organized way of studying the natural world.