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