Environmental Science 101 Midterm Exam || All Correct.
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Environmental Science
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Environmental Science
The use of scientific approaches to understand the complex systems in which we live -The systematic study of our environment and our place in it. correct answers Environmental Science
Understanding how to interpret graphs and compare numbers, to perceive what they show about problems that matter...
Environmental Science 101 Midterm Exam || All Correct.
The use of scientific approaches to understand the complex systems in which we live -The
systematic study of our environment and our place in it. correct answers Environmental Science
Understanding how to interpret graphs and compare numbers, to perceive what they show about
problems that matter. correct answers Quantitative Reasoning
An orderly approach to asking questions, collecting observations, and interpreting those
observations to find the answer to a question. correct answers Scientific Method
________ may be the most critical resource in the 21st century. correct answers Water
Air quality has worsened in the recent years, especially in _____ and _____ correct answers
India, China
The amount of resources we use and dispose of. correct answers Throughput
An essay published in 1968 in which argues that population growth inevitably leads to overuse
and then the destruction of common resources. correct answers Tragedy of the Commons
A search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term. correct
answers Sustainability
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. correct
answers Sustainable Developement
A process for producing knowledge based on observations. -The cumulative body of knowledge
produced and agreed upon by many scientists. correct answers Science
Repeating studies or tests correct answers Replication
A testable exlanation correct answers Hypothesis
When an explanation has been supported by a large number of tests and when a majority of
experts have reached a general consensus that it is a reliable description or explanation correct
answers Scientific theory
A measure of how likely something is to occur correct answers Probability
Experiments in which you observe natural events and interpret a casual relationship between the
variables correct answers Natural Experiment
When conditions in an experiment are deliberately altered and all other variables remain
constant. correct answers Manipulative experiment
, Comparing a treatment group and a control group correct answers Controlled study
Experiments in which the researcher doesn't know which group is treated until after the data have
been analyzed. correct answers Blind experiments
Experiments in which neither the subject (who receives a drug or a placebo) nor the researcher
knows who is in the treatment group or who is in the control group. correct answers Double-
Blind Experiments
The response variable, it is the variable effected. (Y-Axis) correct answers Dependent Variable
Variable that affects the other. (X-Axis) correct answers Independent Variable
A general agreement among informed scientific scholars. correct answers Scientific Consensus
A type of graph that shows a distribution correct answers Histogram
A graph that shows whether groups differ meaningfully correct answers Standard Error Bars
A network of interdependent components and processes correct answers System
Represents complex assemblages of animals, plants, and their environments through which
energy and materials move correct answers Ecosystems
The process of converting carbon, water, and sunlight into usable energy in the form of
carbohydrates correct answers Photosynthesis
Systems that receive inputs from their surroundings and produce outputs that leave the system
correct answers Open Systems
A system that exchanges no energy or matter with it's surroundings. -Rare correct answers
Closed System
The flow of energy and matter into. through, and out of a system correct answers Throughput
When a system is in a stable balance correct answers Equilibrium
'Tipping points' where rapid change suddenly occurs if you pass certain limits. correct answers
Thresholds
A system in which the issue tends to increase a process or component correct answers Positive
Feedback Loop
A system in which the issue tends to diminish a process or component correct answers Negative
Feedback Loop
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