Environmental science final exam study guide

Ethical view that places the highest importance on humans?

• Ecocentrism
• Anthropocentrism
• Natural resources

The environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of resources used?

• Enviorment
• Tragedy of the commons
• pollution 

Is light Biotic or Abiotic?

• Biotic
• Abiotic
• Neither

Water evaporates through pores in plant leaves?

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Transpiration

What is the outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric pressure and temperature are low?

• Exosphere
• Troposphere
• Mesosphere

pH of 0-6?

• Base
• Oxygen
• Acid

What is the cause of the cooling water in the pacific ocean along the equator?

• La nino
• El nino
• Coral bleaching

Areas of land that are flooded with water at least are of the year?

• Wetland
• Open ocean 
• Estuaries

What type of rock forms when heat and pressure change existing rocks?

• Metamorphic rocks
• Igneous rocks
• Sedimentary rocks

What type of energy is generated from the heat from inside the Earth?

• Solar
• Natural gas
• Geothermal