Intro to Environmental Science
resources that cannot replenished in one's lifetime; examples--copper, coal, gasoline
nonrenewable resources
This policy consists of general plans and principles that address interaction between human and the environment.
What is Environmental policy?
This process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and incorporates it into glucose in plants.
What is photosynthesis?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information directly or indirectly.
What is an observation?
This is a universal system to test ideas and theories.
What is the scientific method?
Issues involving individuals and society describe what? Hint: Hardin made many arguments about in 1833 overgrazing cows
"Tragedy of the Commons"
This term describes a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human-caused undesirable changes
What is Environmentalism?
The method in which consumers acquire their carbon that is necessary for survival.
What is the consumer eats other living things?
This category of country is exemplified by nations with high birth rates, high poverty, and agriculturally based societies.
What is a developing nation/country?
Things in your experiment that you can change or measure.
What are variables?
These are issues involving ___________ science: smog levels in cities studying loss of plants and animal species fossil fuel depletion
Environmental
The process of gaseous water changing states into liquid water.
What is condensation?
This process moves water from the surface of plants into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Factor such as food or water that determines the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.
What is a limiting factor?
A chemistry student investigates whether temperature affects reaction rate. They heat a solution to three different temperatures while keeping the concentration constant and measure how long it takes to complete. The time measured represents this variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person's standard of living - also, the environmental impact of one person's decisions.
What is ecological footprint?
This act protects the native animals that are in danger of going extinct and are of ecological, educational, and scientific value to our Nation.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
The full equation of cellular respiration.
What is C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ → 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + ATP?
The ____________________ is often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth" because it produces about 20% of the world's oxygen
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
A biologist notices that frogs in ponds exposed to agricultural runoff have higher rates of deformities. They design an experiment with two ponds: one with runoff and one without. The second pond serves this role in the experiment.
What is the control group?
When people maintain a high standard of living without depleting resources
What is sustainability?
What is the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control?
Clean Air Act of 1963
Carbon stored in this form deep in the Earth for a long time can return to the surface through volcanic activity.
What are carbonates?
An organization that ensures that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and that the environment is protected.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
A scientist analyzes data from a study on air pollution and finds that areas with higher pollution levels have higher rates of asthma. However, they cannot conclude that pollution causes asthma because the study is this type.
What is a correlational study?