Chapter 1
What is environmental science?
What is the study of how humans interact with the environment.
What is a hypothesis?
What is a testable explanation for an observation.
What is an earthquake?
What is a fault in the earths crust along blocks of the crust slide relative to one another.
Cam a theory become a law with more evidence?
What is no.
What are the types of consumers in an ecosystem?
What is herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and decomposer.
What is ecology the study of?
What is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environmen.
What is the difference between and experimental group and a control group?
What is a experimental group is the group that receives the experimental treatment and the control group is the group that doesn’t receive the experimental treatment.
What are tectonic plates and how many are there?
What is the lithosphere, the rigid outermost layer of the earth that is divided into 10 pieces.
What is a belief?
What is a claim not supported by evidence.
What is the process when energy from the sun enters an ecosystem when a plant uses sunlight to make sugar molecules?
What is photosynthesis.
What are the major fields of study that contribute to environmental science?
What is biology, earth science, physics, chemistry, and social sciences.
What is a risk?
What is the probability of an unwanted outcome.
What are all of the compositional and physical layers of the earth?
What is crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core.
What islands did Darwin study the finches on?
What is Galapagos Islands.
How many kingdoms are there that scientists classify organisms in to?
What is six kingdoms.
List 5 examples of both a renewable and nonrenewable resource.
What is
renewable: energy from the sun, water, wood, soil, and air.
nonrenewable: fossil fuels, salt, sand, metals, and clay.
Define distribution.
What is the relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population.
What are the layers of the atmosphere in order from closest to the Earth to farthest away.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
What are the different types of selection?
What is stabilizing, disruptive, and directional selection.
A pond community is made up of _______________.
All the populations of fish, insects, and other long organisms.
What is the law of supply and demand?
What is it states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth.
List and define all of the different types of models.
What is
conceptual model: a verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized.
Mathematical model: one or more equations that represents the way a system or process works.
decision making model: a conceptual model that provides a systematic process for making decisions.
What is the difference between surface currents and deep currents?
What is surface currents are wind driven and result from global wind patterns, deep currents are streamlike movements that flow very slowly along the ocean floor.
What are all of the different types of isolation in prezygotic isolating mechanism?
What is habitat, geographical, temporal, behavioral, mechanical, and gamete isolation.
Bacteria, fungi, and plants share a certain characteristic that other phylum do not have. What is this characteristi?
What is a cell wall.