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The Environment and You
The Scientific Method
Pullin' a 180
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The study of the impact of humans on the environment.
What is Environmental Science?
100
An unbiased piece of information gathered using the senses.
What is an observation?
100

The people whose lives were changed forever because of the Agricultural Revolution (hint it came before the Ag Rev); their populations increased, their cultures and religions developed, and they became stationary.

What are hunter-gatherers?

100

Name the 3 basic layers of the geosphere. 

What are core, mantle, crust

100
As the demand for something in limited supply increases, its cost will also increase.
What is the Law of Supply and Demand?
200

What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen

What is 78%

200
The method used when using experiments to answer a question is impossible because of timing, or is unethical because of negative impacts on human health or the environment.
What is the correlation method?
200
The event that took place about 10,000 years ago and led to the development of artificially selected food sources.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
200
The chance that an outcome will be undesired.
What is risk?
200
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is Sustainability?
300
The three main environmental problems we face today.
What are pollution, resource depletion, and loss of biodiversity?
300
The group that does not get the experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
300
The event that took place in the mid 1700's that created most of the environmental issues that we struggle with today.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300

What is the estimated age of the Earth?

Approx 4.5 billion years old. 

300

When humans use a resource faster than it is able to be replaced by a natural process.

What is non-renewable resource

400

What layer of the atmosphere do we live in? 

What is the Troposphere 

400
If you are studying how the feeding rate of jellyfish changes with changes in water temperature, it is the feeding rate of jellyfish.
What is the dependent variable?
400

The energy source that replaced man-power during the Industrial Revolution.

What are fossil fuels?

400

This is the opposite of photosynthesis. It's what humans do to burn energy in their body. 

What is cellular respiration

400

Coal is commonly burned to create this

What is electricity

500
This represents the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a specific country; it is dependent upon the land used for crops, grazing, forest products, housing, fishing grounds, and the area of forest needed to absorb the air pollution.
What is your Ecological Footprint?
500

Tina wants to determine which toothpaste whitens teeth the best. Name 3 controls Tina needs to have in her experiment. 

Ex: Time of brushing teeth, water used, toothbrush, Surface of teeth, etc. 

500
Something that happened as a result of the human quality of life increasing because of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
What is human population growth?
500

What is the current world population 

What is approx. 8 billion.

500

Oil is typically burned for this

What is transportation