SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
TOOLS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
THE DYNAMIC EARTH
THE ORGANIZATION OF LIFE
HOW ECOSYSTEMS WORK
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What is Environmental Science?
What is Environmental Science is the study of how humans interact with the environment.
100
What is observation?
What is a piece of information we gather using our scenes- our sight, hearing, smell, and touch.
100
Name the 3 layers of the earth.
What is Crust, Mantle, Core?
100
What is an ecosystem?
What is all living organisms in an area together with their physical environment.
100
What is cellular respiration?
What is the process of breaking down food to yield energy, which occurs inside cells of most organisms.
200
What is Ecology?
What is the study of of how living things interact with each other and their nonliving environment.
200
This is a testable observation for an observation.
What is hypothesis?
200
Name the layers of the atmosphere in order.
What is 1. Troposphere, 2. stratosphere, 3. Mesosphere, 4.Thermosphere.
200
This factor is the living and once living parts of an ecosystem, including all of the plants and animals.
What is Biotic Factors?
200
what is a food chain?
A food chain is a sequence in which energy is transfered from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism.
300
This states that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth.
What is the law of supply and demand.
300
This is a logical statement about what will happen if the hypothesis is correct.
What is prediction?
300
Name the 3 layers of the ocean in order.
What is 1. Surface Zone, 2.Thermocline, 3.Deep Zone.
300
This factor is the nonliving parts of the ecosystem. It includes air, water, rocks, sand, light, and temperature. It is the opposite of biotic factors.
What is abiotic factors
300
what is a food web?
A food web shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem.
400
This is the condition which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is Sustainability.
400
What is the 7 steps to the Experimental Method?( you must list them in order to answer this question correctly and receive points.)
What is 1. observation, 2. hypothesis, 3. prediction, 4. experimenting, 5. Organizing & Analyzing Data, 6. Drawling a conclusion, 7. Repeating Experiments, 8. Communicating Results.
400
Energy that enters the environment, but matter does not.
What is Closed System?
400
What is an organism?
What is an individual living thing?
400
What are Trophic levels?
Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or web in an ecosystem.
500
This is an undesirable change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.
What is Pollution.
500
What are the 4 steps to the Decision making model?(must be in order to receive points.)
What is 1.Gather information, 2. Consider Values, 3.Explore Consequences, 4.Make a decision.
500
Both Matter and energy are exchanged between a system and the surrounding environment.
What is Open System?
500
What is natural selection?(Charles Darwin's theory)
What is a term, used by Darwin, to describe the unequal survival and reproduction that results from the presence or absence of a particular trait(s).
500
What is the Carbon Cycle?
the carbon cycle is the process in which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water, and organisms.
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