5 Written Questions

1. A theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modification in successive generations
2. Relates concepts and ideas to one another by some measurement (e.g., quantitative, numeral, abstract, ideological); provides a measure of size and/or incremental change
3. A group of related objects that do not have feedback and cannot modify themselves
4. A naturally occurring raw material or form of energy that will be replenished through natural ecological cycles or sound management practice (e.g., the sun, wind, water, trees).
5. A group of related objects that make up a larger system (e.g., automobiles have electrical systems, fuel systems)

5 Matching Questions

1. Regulation
2. Niche
3. Theory
4. Pest
5. Waste stream

1. a A rule or order issued by an executive authority or regulatory agency of a government and having the force of law
2. b A label applied to an organism when it is in competition with humans for some resource
3. c The flow of (waste) materials from generation, collection and separation to disposal
4. d Systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; especially, a system of assumptions, accepted principles and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena
5. e Niche The role played by an organism in an ecosystem; its food preferences, requirements for shelter, special behaviors and the timing of its activities (e.g., nocturnal, diurnal), interaction with other organisms and its habitat

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Collecting and reprocessing a resource or product to make into new products
   1. Renewable
   2. Recycling
   3. Wetlands
   4. Lentic
2. The land are from which surface runoff drains into a stream, channel, lake, reservoir or other body of water; also called a drainage basin
   1. Patterns
   2. Waste stream
   3. System
   4. Watershed
3. A group of related objects that have feedback and can modify themselves
   1. System
   2. Subsystem
   3. Open loop system
   4. Closed loop system
4. Summarizing statement of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true
   1. Pest
   2. Scale
   3. Lotic
   4. Law
5. Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location (e.g., pipes, ditches, channels, sewers, tunnels, container of various types).
   1. Nonpoint source pollution
   2. Theory of evolution
   3. Point source pollution
   4. Regulation

5 True/False Question

1. Manufacturing technology → The ways that humans produce goods and products
   

   True        False

2. Risk management → Repeated processes that are exhibited in a wide variety of ways; identifiable recurrences of the element and/or the form
   

   True        False

3. Lentic → Relating to or living in still water
   

   True        False

4. Technology education → The application of tools, materials, processes and systems to solve problems and extend human capabilities
   

   True        False

5. Stream order → Streamorder Energy and nutrient flow that increases as water moves toward the oceans (e.g., the smallest stream (primary) that ends when rivers flow into oceans)
   

   True        False