Environmental Ch 1 & 2, 2015

The number and variety of species in an area. 

Correlation

When you consider if a nature preserve helps protect a water source, what value are you using?

Using resources in such a way that there will be enough for future generations.

Fossil fuels, metals, and salt

Probability

A science focused on environmental effects of human activities. 

What essential characteristic does a good experiment have?

Prediction

The three final steps of the experimental method in their correct order are

When the last member of a species dies.

When building a dam, what economic value might it have?

Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?

Sun's energy enters and heat leaves

Experimental method

Introduction of harmful levels of chemicals of wastes into the environment.

Decision-making model

What is "risk" in science?

You buy nature preserve land that has an endangered bird on it, what problem might happen ?

A science focused on interactions between organisms and the environment.

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science EXCEPT.

Which model would you use to represent the shape of Earth's surface beneath the oceans?

Statistics

Sunlight and forests.

Harmful material that cannot be broken down by natural processes

Which of the following lists contains the names of developed countries?

Experiment

Hypothesis