Intro to Environmental Science
Independent and Dependent Variables
Scientific Processes
Environmental Decision Making
Vocabulary
Random (2x)
100
Which type of resource is naturally replenished over short periods of time.
Renewable Natural Resources
100
How do different chemicals in fertilizers affect plant growth?
IV: different chemicals
DV: plant growth
100
What is the very first step in completing the scientific method?
observation
100
What is supply?
how much you have
100
The study of ecology as well as focusing on how humans affect the environment and ways to address environmental problems.
Environmental Science
100
Two categories of policies
Regulation and Incentive
200
Resources must be used at a/an____________ rate.
Sustainable
200
How long does it take three different types of enzymes to digest a liter of milk?
IV: different enzymes
DV: time it takes to digest milk
200
What is an independent variable?
what changes
200
What is demand?
how much is needed
200
A measure of the demands made by one person or group on global natural resources.
Ecological Footprint
200
You notice that every time you eat spicy food, you get a stomach ache, you conclude that spicy food causes stomach aches. Is this inductive or deductive reasoning?
Inductive reasoning
300
What event is described by humans shifting from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to live in communities, raise livestock and plant crops.
Agriculture Revolution
300
What is the effect of the density of different mediums on the speed at which light travels?
IV: different mediums
DV: speed the light travels
300
Which variable goes on the x-axis of a graph.
independent variable
300
This is an example of which ecosystem service: Wetlands provide regulating services by improving water quality and holding water to provide flood control.
Regulating
300
When a shared (common) resource is unregulated, individuals will consume it at a selfish rate.
Tragedy of the Commons
300
All spiders have eight legs. A tarantula is a spider. Therefore, tarantulas have eight legs. Is this inductive or deductive reasoning?
Deductive Reasoning
400
Give an example of a nonrenewable natural resource and a renewable natural resource.
answers will vary.
nonrenewable: coal, oil, natural gases
renewable: solar power, wind power, and hydropower
400
Becky wanted to figure out what type of liquid worked best for growing beans. She watered one with coca-cola, one with lemonade, and one with just water. After one week, she measured how high they had grown.
IV: type of liquid
DV: how high they grew
400
What would a control group be used for?
comparing
400
This is an example of which ecosystem service:
Forests provide organic matter for decomposers, provide wind breaks allowing other plants to survive, and provide oxygen for animals to breathe.
Supporting
400
focuses on the threat of punishment if rules are not followed.
Regulations
400
Four types of ecosystem services
Provisioning
Regulating
Cultural
Supporting
500
What two events led to increases in human life spans, health, and the human population overall.
Agriculture and Industrial Revolutions
500
Shania wanted to see if eating apples would help her do better on her classwork. The first day, she didn’t eat any apples. On day 2, she ate one apple; on day 3, she ate 2 apples; and on day 4, she ate 3 apples. Each day, she recorded the grades she got on her science work.
IV: how many apples she ate
DV: science grades
500
If the peer reviewers are satisfied, the experimental results may be published in a ________.
Scientific Journal
500
What is a cost-benefit analysis?
Is the cost worth what you would get out of something.
500
A combination of both regulations & incentives.
Cap-and-Trade
500
Set up a graph for the effect of water on plant growth. Does the amount of water
effect plant growth? Show variables, units and title
