Environmental Science Unit 1

Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?

• filling a car with gasoline
• building wooden furniture
• mining copper
• burning coal in a power plant

During the _____ period(s), humans altered their habitats

• hunter-gatherer
•  agricultural revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• All of the above

The _____ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

• overhunting of large mammals
• shift in the use of fossil fuels
• improved quality of life
• growth of cities

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics.
• biology and earth sciences
• social sciences
• physics and chemistry

All of the following issues involve environmental science except

• measuring smog levels in cities.
• asking people questions about the cost of various resources.
• studying the loss of plant and animal species
• publishing the results of a study on fossil fuel depletion

Which of the following is a developing nation?

• the United States
• France
• Canada
• Ethiopia

The group that does not receive the experimental treatment in an experiment is the

• control group.
• experimental group
• data.
• variable.

Scientists use statistics to

• graph data.
• analyze data.
• communicate ideas to each other
• All of the above

Which step in the experimental method are scientists conducting when they photograph birds inflight?

• observing
• hypothesizing
• drawing conclusions
• analyzing data

A good hypothesis is more than a guess because it

• is based on intuition rather than observation.
• states what is likely to happen.
• makes logical sense.
• Both (b) and (c)