Intro to Environmental Science
Environmental Policies
Biogeochemical Cycles
Miscellaneous
Scientific Method
100

resources that cannot replenished in one's lifetime; examples--copper, coal, gasoline

nonrenewable resources

100

This policy consists of general plans and principles that address interaction between human and the environment.

What is Environmental policy?

100

This process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and incorporates it into glucose in plants.

What is photosynthesis?

100

Using one or more of your senses to gather information directly or indirectly.

What is an observation? 

100

This is a universal system to test ideas and theories.

What is the scientific method?

200

Issues involving individuals and society describe what? Hint: Hardin made many arguments about in 1833 overgrazing cows 


"Tragedy of the Commons"

200

This term describes a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from human-caused undesirable changes

What is Environmentalism?

200

The method in which consumers acquire their carbon that is necessary for survival.

What is the consumer eats other living things?

200

This category of country is exemplified by nations with high birth rates, high poverty, and agriculturally based societies.

What is a developing nation/country?

200

Things in your experiment that you can change or measure.

What are variables?

300

These are issues involving ___________ science: smog levels in cities studying loss of plants and animal species fossil fuel depletion

Environmental

300

The process of gaseous water changing states into liquid water.

What is condensation?

300

This process moves water from the surface of plants into the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?

300

Factor such as food or water that determines the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.

What is a limiting factor?

300

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

The full equation of cellular respiration.

What is C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ → 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + ATP?

400

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?

400

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?

500

When people maintain a high standard of living without depleting resources

What is sustainability?

500

What is the first federal legislation regarding air pollution control?


Clean Air Act of 1963

500

Carbon stored in this form deep in the Earth for a long time can return to the surface through volcanic activity.

What are carbonates?

500

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)?

500

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?