AP Environmental Science Final Review - part 2

Principles or standards that are used to make decisions are called ____________________.

The __________ is the only difference between the control group and the experimental group.

Fossil fuels became an important energy source during the___________.

Using the law of supply and demand, when _______ goes down, ________ goes up.

The layers of the Earth, in order from closest to the surface to furthest from the surface:

An important effect of the agricultural revolution was:

___________are representations of objects or systems.

is the ability of one or more organisms to tolerate a particular chemical designed to kill it.

Single celled organisms that usually have cell walls and reproduce by dividing in half.  

Life on Earth is restricted to a very narrow layer around the Earth’s surface called the ____.

A ____________ is a group of similar things that a scientist is interested in learning about.  

The group that receives the experimental treatment is called the _____________ group.

A(n) _______________ is a linear dependence between two variables.

A(n) _______________ is the relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population.

 _____________________ is the transfer of heat by air currents.

A change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next 

The chances that something will happen is called _________________.

Shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country.

Living and once living parts of an ecosystem, including all of the plants and animals.

The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment.

A(n) _________ is a piece of information we gather using our senses.

The atmospheric layer nearest to Earth’s surface is the _______________.

an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects humans or other organisms.

The ______________ makes up 64% of the mass of the Earth.

The gases that trap and radiate heat are called ____________________________ gases.  

_____________is the collection and classification of data that are in the form of numbers.

______ refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area.

_______ nations tend to have very high population growth rates, and low child survival rates.

Nitrogen makes up ____ percent of the Earth’s atmosphere.

A(n)______is a procedure designed to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions.

The part of the Earth that consists of all rock, and the soils and sediments on the surface

Electrically charged atoms are called ____________.

A(n)______ is all of the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment.

The atmosphere _____ Earth’s surface, slowing the rate at which the Earth’s surface loses heat.