Environmental Science Chapter 1/2 Review

Logical statement about what will happen if a hypothesis is correct.

Procedure for testing a hypothesis under controlled conditions.

If you consider what will protect our natural resources when making a decisionyou examine what?

Compared with their counterparts in developed countries, individuals in developing nations have

Why are mathematical models important?

Using economic considerations of resource use, the law of supply and demand describes

All of the following disciplines are major contributors to the field of environmental except

The study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment.

Environmentalscience is a studyof which typesof interactions between humans andthe environment?

A model of a dinosaur is an example of a ___________ model.

The rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and waste is what?

An endangered speciesof mammal breedsinan area if youadd moreland to that area what will happen

Association used to study a subject when using an experiment is impossible or unethical

Characterized by high personal wealth, and high levels of consumption.

Why is the worlds loss of biodiversity a source of concern?

This is characterized by high population growth rate and extreme poverty.

Verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized

Society shifted to fossil fuels during which revolution?

What essential characteristic does a good experiment have?

An undesired change in air, water, and soil.

The average mass of a wolf in a pack of wolves is an example of what

Population growth in the 20th century accelerated which environmental stress (es)?

A testable explanation for an observation.

Achieving a sustainable world is a goal that will depend on

Plants and animals were domesticated and human populations grew during what?

Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie during which period?

Listing boththe merits andexpenses involvedin implementinga particular enviro solution is ex of

Information gathered by using sight, hearing, smell, and touch.

A good hypothesis is more than a guess because it

Principles or standards we consider important.

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

A chance something will happen.

Which of the following is studied in environmental science?

What describes conflicts associated with sharing resources?

Information gathered during an experiment.

Collection and classification of data in the form of numbers

In a scientific investigation, itis important that the numberof objects or events being sampled

The chance that an earthquake will occur in your town during the next year is an example of

Natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted.

Most of today's environmental problems began during which period?