Ch. 1
If a resource is unsustainable it will
What is becoming a nonrenewable resource or what is running out.
Plastic is not a natural resource.
What is man made?
Environment
What is all living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.
Particles of an atom.
What is the protons, neutrons, and electrons?
Nucleus
What is the center of the atom made of up protons and neutrons?
The scientific method
What is observation, hypothesis, experiment, record, analyze, share results.
The three branches of government.
What are the Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch
Matter
What has mass and takes up space
The four macromolecules
What are proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids?
Law of Conservation of Matter
Why can matter be neither created nor destroyed and can only change form?
Changing one part of the environment
What always leads to changes in other parts of the environment?
This led to environmental policy changes in the third period of the U.S Environmental policy history.
What are social changes?
Hypothesis
What is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
Daily Double!
Four properties of water.
What is cohesion, resistance to temperature change, ice density, universal solvent?
Transpiration
What is the release of water vapor by plants through their leaves?
Two ways to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons
What is private ownership and government regulation?
Created in 1945 to help promote peace and solve economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems.
What is the United Nations?
Command-and-control approach
Why a government body sets rules and threatens punishment for violations
pH of 3
What is an acid?
Cost-benefit analysis.
What is a method in which decision makers compare what they will sacrifice and gain by a specific action?
Dependant variable
What is the variable that depends on the experimental conditions?
Environmental Policy Process
What is identify the problem, identify the cause, envision a solution, get organized, gain access, and help a solution become policy.
Environmental Impact Statments
What requires government agencies and any business that contract with them to evaluate the impact of a project on the environment.
Negative feedback loop example.
What is when you get cold and you shiver to get warm and when you get hot you sweet to cool off?
Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
What contains the crust and the upper mantle?
What contains only the upper mantle and rest beneath the lithosphere?