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BIO 123 FINAL EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILEDANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 100% PASS
Extinction of mastodons, horses and giant sloths in the Americas is best attributed to -
ANSWER overhunting by Native Americans
A field of plants with the greatest ability to respond to disease and environmental
change is most likely the one with - ANSWER high species diversity
Up through 2015, people like Paul Ehrlich and Thomas Malthus have been mostly: -
ANSWER wrong
Think of a graph which might be used to show the relationship between income and
impacting the environment. It might show that: - ANSWER Poor countries have low
impact, middle income countries high impact, rich countries low impact.
A hypothesis is different from a belief because it is - ANSWER falsifiable
The process by which carbon moves from organisms like animals to the atmosphere is
called - ANSWER respiration
Many characteristics of Rousseau's Noble Savages have - ANSWER never been found
The scientific method if done correctly is - ANSWER all of these of are correct
/reliable, impartial, limited in when it can be used)
When an organism dies, the entropy associated with the Second Law of
Thermodynamics results in: - ANSWER the increase of disorganization in the structures
of the organism's body
, When energy is transformed from one form to another, the energy lost is usually in the
form of - ANSWER heat
What is the basic subunit of matter? - ANSWER atoms
The proposition that life has radically altered the Earth's environment, and that these
changes have tended to make the Earth more favorable for the continuation of life is
known as:- ANSWER the Gaia hypothesis
Compared to the text and lecture, what is considered to be the root cause of most
environmental problems? - ANSWER the rapid increase in human population
According to the text, when did the most amazing growth in the history of the human
population happen? - ANSWER during the last part of the twentieth century
General explanation for a natural phenomenon that unifies many observations and is
supported by a large amount of evidence is called a: - ANSWER theory
Which of the following order of the following steps, from start to finish, in the scientific
method is correct? - ANSWER observations, hypothesis, controlled experiment,
conclusions
In chapter 3 the text talks about the decrease in ground fish off the New England coast.
after a long study, the main reason for the decline was determined to be: - ANSWER
overfishing
Construct a new off-shore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. what would the
following be considered? - ANSWER damage to the shrimp fishing industry from
accidental pollutant spills
Positive feedback mechanisms: tend to destabilize a system
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