5 Written Questions

1. a small community of libing organisms start to live in an area that did not previously contain any organisms
2. pollution growth, unstustainable resource use, poverty, excluding environmental cost from market prices
3. involves finding ways to stop generating waste pollution rather than ways to dispose of it
4. the circulation and reutilization of nitrogen in both inorganic and organic places.
5. the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent

5 Matching Questions

1. stewardship worldview
2. kinetic energy
3. ecosystem
4. Environmental Sciences three important limitations
5. pollution cleanup

1. a Belief that holds that we can and should manage the earth for our benefit, but that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers, or stewards, of the earth
2. b Device or process that removes or reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or has entered the environment. Examples are automobile emission control devices and sewage treatment plants. Compare pollution prevention.
3. c living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions
4. d the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion
5. e 1st-scientist cannot prove or disprove anything absolutely
   2nd- scientist are human, thus are not totally free of bia about their own results and hypotheses
   3rd-many environmental phenomena involve huge a huge of interacting variables and complex interactions

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. states that energy is conserved. It is neither created nor destroyed underneath normal conditions.
   1. first law of thermodynamics
   2. scientific theory
   3. natural services
   4. frontier science
2. abiotic and biotic
   1. nonrenewable resources
   2. stratosphere
   3. two components that make up biosphere
   4. Environmental Degradation
3. in a biological community various populations sharing environmental resources through specialization thereby reducing direct competition
   1. ecological tipping
   2. resource partitioning
   3. nuclear fission
   4. recycling
4. a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
   1. nucleus
   2. nuclear fusion
   3. Solar Energy
   4. electron
5. the average number of children a woman of childbearing years would have in her lifetime, if she had children at the current rate for her country
   1. acidity
   2. fertility rate
   3. liquid water
   4. low quality matter

5 True/False Questions

1. ecology → scientific study of living things

   True        False

2. environmental wisdom → belief that we are a part of earth and should work with it to preserve life

   True        False

3. Species → group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring

   True        False

4. developed countries → consist of data, hypothesis, theories, models, and laws that are widely accepted by all or most of the scientist under study, in what is referred to as a scientific consensus

   True        False

5. Scientific Law → An explanation supported by many tests and accepted by a general consensus of scientists.

   True        False