Environmental Science Unit 1 Test Review

This is a systematic process you can use to help you make decisions about environmental issues.

Hardin's essay "Tragedy of the Commons" addressed conflicts related to

The state in which a population can survive indefinitely

Before you can make a decision using a decision-making model, what step must you take?

The group that receives the independent variable is called the

Describes the relationship between an item's availability and its value

A person's ecological footprint

If you are building a dam, what is an example of a question that addresses an economic value?

Environmental Science is

Human lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the grasslands

This is a testable explanation or prediction to solve a problem based on your observations.

Which of the following is NOT a direct result of the Industrial Revolution?

This consists of a series of steps used by scientists to identify and answer questions .

The group that does not receive the experimental treatment in an experiment is the

A hypothesis must be _________________?

What does biodegradable mean?

the factor that is changed in an experiment is called the

Which step in the experimental method are scientists conducting when they photograph whales?

These could be positive or negative and must be explored before making a decision.

renewable resource is to nonrenewable resource as

Using the law of supply and demand, if the oil supply declined but the demand remained the same

This group does not receive the independent variable in an experiment.

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

Our values effect decision making. What value is used when we are concerned with appearances?

The average mass of a penguin in a colony is an example of

What essential characteristics does a good experiment have?

During the agricultural revolution

Evidence based on proven observations is called _____________________.

Which is an example of a nonrenewable resource?

Information gathered by using the senses is known as