Major Fields of Study
Environmental Changes
Levels of Organization
Darwin and Natural Selection
Nonrenewable/renewable
100
Earth science, physics, chemistry, social sciences, and ___________ all contribute to the field of environmental sciences.
What is biology?
100
When the last member if a species dies, ________________ is said to have occurred.
What is extinction?
100
List 5 abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
What is sunlight, temperature, water, soil, air, rocks?
100
An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in a certain environment is an _____________.
What is adaptation?
100
Copper ore, petroleum, and diamonds are nonrenewable/renewable.
What is nonrenewable resources?
200
A science that examines how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment is called _____________.
What is ecology?
200
The introduction of harmful levels of chemicals or wastes into the environment is called _______________.
What is pollution?
200
The place where an organism lives and that has the resources that the organism needs is its _____________.
What is habitat?
200
If an insect can no longer be killed by a particular insecticide, it has developed ___________ to the chemical.
What is resistance?
200
a resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate it is being consumed.
What is nonrenewable resource?
300
_________________ is the study of how humans interact with the environment
What is environmental science?
300
During the ________________ period in history, humans lived in tribes and used fires to maintain prairie habitat.
What is hunter gatherer?
300
The living and once living parts of an ecosystem, including all the plants and animals, are ______________ factors in the ecosystem.
What is biotic factors?
300
1. Organisms produce more offspring than can survive. 2. The environment is hostile and contains limited resources. 3. Organisms differ in the traits they have. 4. Some inherited traits provide organisms with an advantage. 5. Each generation contains proportionately more organisms with advantageous traits. What does the above points summarize?
What is Darwin's evolution by natural selection?
300
a resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes
What is renewable resource?
400
Biology is broken down into zoology, botany, _______________, and ecology.
What is microbiology?
400
During the ________________ period in history, plants and animals were domesticated and human populations grew rapidly.
What is agricultural revolution?
400
True or False: Most organisms can survive if they are taken away from their habitat. An organism's habitat is the place where it lives. A habitat has specific characteristics that an organism needs in order to live there. A habitat contains biotic and abiotic factors.
What is false, true, true, true
400
Some individuals, because of certain traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than other individuals. This is know as "________ of the ____________."
What is survival of the fittest?
400
examples are energy from the sun, water, wood, soil, air
What is renewable resources?
500
_______________ is the study of the Earth's nonliving systems and the planet as a whole.
What is Earth Science?
500
During the ________________ period in history, great technological strides were made, but pollution first became a significant environmental problem.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
What are the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest?
What is organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere?
500
Darwin proposed that __________________ is the mechanism for ____________, the change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
What is natural selection, evolution?
500
________________ is an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.
What is pollution?
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