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APES - Chapter 1 part 1 (Environmental Indicators and Scientific Method)

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Friedland and Relyea Chapter 1 APES

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1
Human intervention has stabilized or increased numbers of some endangered species, except
American bison
snow leopard
bald eagle
peregrine falcon
2
Challenges in the study of environmental science include all of the following except
lack of baseline data
complexity of natural systems
subjectivity of environmental impacts
dangers of studying natural systems
3
A change that is derived from human activities is called
empathogenic
anthropogenic
apoplectic
endothermic
4
Environmental indicators
do not provide information regarding sustainability
are useful only when studying large-scale changes
can be used to analyze the health of natural systems
always tell us what is causing an environmental change
5
E.O. Wilson wrote that humans exhibit "Love of life" or
thalassophilia
arctophilia
biophilia
heliophilia
6
A control group is a group with
same conditions as experimental except for study variable
the same conditions as experimental group
conditions found in nature
randomly assigned population
7
The first step in the scientific process
forming a hypothesis
forming a theory
observations and questions
collecting data
8
This image shows:
high accuracy and high precision
low accuracy and low precision
high accuracy and precision
low accuracy and high precision
9
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The Big Sick
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