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Human Population
Historical Periods
Scientific Method
Dynamic Earth
Water
100
The amount of people living in a given area
What is population density?
100
The burning of these during the Industrial Revolution caused negative effects on the environment.
What are fossil fuels?
100
A testable explanation for an observation
What is a hypothesis?
100
The solid parts of the earth that consists of all rock, soil and sediments
What is the geosphere?
100
Residential, Agriculture and Industry
What are three uses of water?
200
The average number of years an individual is predicted to live
What is life expectancy?
200
Agricultural productivity increased, sanitation, nutrition, and medical care vastly improved
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
Used to test a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
200
The thin layer of the Earth upon which tectonic plates move around
What is the asthenosphere?
200
Potable Water
What is water that is safe to drink called?
300
The number of organisms that an environment can support
What is carrying capacity?
300
The shift from rural life, with animal powered agriculture and handmade manufacturing to urban society powered by nonrenewable energy sources
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The group that does not receive the variable
What is the control group?
300
The method by which currents at the surface of the ocean move
What is wind?
300
Pollution that comes from many different sources
What is nonpoint-source pollution?
400
The productive area of Earth needed to support the lifestyle of one person in a particular country
What is an ecological footprint?
400
Wind, solar, fresh water
What are renewable resources?
400
The factor of interest that is changed by the experimenter.
What is independent variable?
400
The ozone layer is located here
What is the stratosphere layer of the atmosphere?
400
An accelerated growth of nutrients in water such as phosphorus and nitrogen caused naturally or by humans.
What is eutrophication?
500
pre-industrial, transitional, industrial, post-industrial
What is the proper sequence of steps in the demographic transition model?
500
Two major factors that have increased in the last several hundred years.
What resource consumption and human population?
500
The steps of scientific method in the correct sequence
What is Problem, hypothesis, experiment, observation, analysis of data, and conclusion?
500
Plate Boundaries that move away from each other and create land
What are divergent boundaries?
500
Leaking Septic tank
What is an example of Point source pollution?