Final exam practice
El nino and la nina are terms associated with what
Complex weather patterns
Examples of E-Waste
Computers, phones, printers
There are several types of thinking with science, which type deals with orderly and deductive?
Critical thinking
Does the social improvement of woman's life increase or decrease birthrate
Decrease
Logical reasoning from a general point of view to a specific point of view is what type of reasoning?
Deductive reasoning
Experimental studies where the tester and tested doe not know the treatment is called
Double blind experiment
Branch of science that deals with nature, effects and interactions of substances that are harmful to the environment
Ecotoxicology
Wastewater treated out untreated that flows out a treatment plant or industrial outfall
Effluent
If an environmental system uses feedback mechanisms in order to repair itself from an extreme situation, we say that system had what?
Homeostasis
What uses the most water as far as industry
Agriculture----- thermal power plants
What organic molecule is necessary to build amino acids/ priorities (building blocks for structure)
Amino acids
A specific biological community and it's physical environment interacting in an exchange of matter and energy
An ecosystem
Energy from methane is best produced by which means? Aerobically or anerobically
Anerobically
A situation. There is a Poisonous species or just foul tasting. A predator knows to stay away from it. Another harmless species looks like this poisonous / foul one and it is automatically spared. What is it called?
Bayesian Monmouth j
Are dry desserts, hot and cold, biologically diverse
Biodiversity of the desert is very low
The concentration of toxins in an organism as a result of other plants or animals in which toxins are more widely disturbed
Biomagnification
What is a large community of pants and animals that occupy a distinct region ex) coral reefs
Biome
The concern for deforestation is an ecological or environmental problem? Or is it both?
Both ecological or environmental problems
The backbone of organic molecules in which atom
Carbon
What element is known for supplying metabolic energy to organisms
Carbon
Burning fossil fuel release large amounts of what component
Carbon dioxide
Without trees, we would have an access _________ in the air
Carbon dioxide
Coral reef bleaching is due to what
Warmer water temperatures
What is or most efficient fuel
Wind
Can a person be punished from the government for toxic waste on personal property even if the waste was placed there before the purchase
Yes
Is biodiversity necessary for life to
Yes
Is it common to retrieve and use energy from burning waste
Yes
Is it fair to say recycling is economically driven as well as environmentally
Yes
Is it true using animal dunga a fuel could increase world hunger
Yes
Is the greenhouse effect a natural process that is necessary for life
Yes
Will increases in three greenhouse effects cause increases in infectious diseases
Yes
We know ecosystems depend on biodiversity, but does human sustainability depend on biodiversity
Yes biodiversity is the foundation of human health
Does the expression, ecological footprint, represent each individual or stages of social development
Individual
Which of the following wetlands contain trees
Inland wetlands
Does deforestation increase or decreases the greenhouse effect
It increases
What does chronically undernourished means
Lack specific nutrients
In the u.s. which if the most common way to dump waste
Landfills
High levels of oxygen in water indicate life or death
Life
What dotted the expression energy intensity mean
Measure of the energy inefficiency of an economy
Used for greater yeilds and more efficient harvesting than natural stands of trees
Monoculture forestry
A type of microevloution is what?
Natural selection
Survival of the strongest means of ecology
Natural selection
Homeostasis or balance is maintained primarily buy which system? Negative or positive
Negative feedback
Each area of the worldhad a given water temperature. If this temperature is increased, is it possible for life to increase
No
Is it possible for two species to live in the same ecological niche and maintain
No
Is turbid water transparent
No
Typically, is it more of a burden to add another child to the family in a less developed country when compared to the United States
No
What are proven in place energy reserves
Oil reserves that are reserved claimed to have reasonable certainty of being recovered
Taking more from the land or sea that it can replace(also fish and animals)
Over harvesting
Plants release _________ while consuming _____________
Oxygen, carbon dioxide
What is a photoplankton
Plankton consisting of microscopic plants
Specific locations of highly concentrate pollution discharge such as factories, power plants, sewage treatment plants
Point source
Which species over produce due to their high death rate
R- selected species
An ecosystems productivity may also be referred to as what?
Rate of generation of biomass
What is considered the best method to help eliminate waste
Reduce
What is the best way to decrease waste
Refuse
Extracting ore by a process involving hearing and melting
Smelting
Which is the fastest growing renewable energy resource
Solar
What crop replaces nitrogen to the soil
Soybeans
Are swamps considered areas of wasted water or stabilizers
Stabilizers
What layer of the atmosphere contains the most ozone
Stratosphere
What element highly contribute to acid rain
Sulfur dioxide
Which type of system results in two species living together with their fates linked
Symbiosis
What type of incineration is called a mass burn
The heart is turned into useful electricity
moving air from one temp to another
convection currents
A scientific theory
explanation of observations or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations
Define famine
extreme scarcity of food
Most fresh water on Earth is
glaciers and ice caps
warmer water temps contributes to vapor increase, which contributes to
greenhouse effect
small fissures remain until large ones appear, and then larger ones form
gully erosion
we have inherited the earth
law of nature
indigenous people
natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later
(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world
pandemic
What is the greatest threat to food insecurity
poverty
What usually occurred on recently plowed field or sites with poor soil and lack of behave convers
sheet erosion
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
stratosphere
What is ambient air?
the surrounding atmosphere
what is the layer of air closest to the earth
troposphere
A New disease or one that has been absent for at least 20 years
Emergent disease
A species that is considered to be in imminent danger is considered to be what
Endangered species
What is techno fix
Environmental problems
What is an example of biofuel
Ethanol from corn. Biodiesel from veggie oil
What is a hypothesis?
Explanation that can be verified our falsified
What law states energy is conserved, that generally it cannot br created or destroyed
First law if thermodynamics
What biome isconsidered to be a carbon sink
Forest
Difference between frontier science and consensus science is what?
Frontier is not tested and is questionable
The niche of a species is the what?
Functional role and position of A species in an ecosystem
A paradigm shift is whereby
Fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions