Environmental Systems Final Review

When we did the jelly bean lab, what was the main characteristic which we classified the jelly beans by?

• Amount
• Color
• None of these
• Size

Define the following:  The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and supporting long-term ecologic balance.

• Environment
• Economy
• Carbon footprint
• Sustainability

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Which of the following makes it difficult to reduce population growth?

• Population sizes will not decline until some people start having to do without food and other necessities of life.
• Many people have low literacy and limited access to healthcare.
• Many people live in cities, where large families are an advantage.
• High literacy rates result in women wanting to have more children.

Which of the following is NOT true?

• Humans can not affect the carrying capacity for organisms in an ecosystem.
• The carrying capacity affects everything that lives in the ecosystem.
• Carrying capacity can be defined as the number of living things (plants and animals) any area of land or water can support at any one time.
• Different organisms will have different carrying capacities in the same area.

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Which of the following do we get from biodiversity?

• Medicine
• Food
• Oxygen
• We get all of these things from biodiversity

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Where are most of Earth's active volcanoes located?

• in southern Texas
• in Antarctica
• around the Pacific Rim, in the Pacific Ring of Fire
• in East Africa

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Define the following:  a process in which the materials of Earth’s surface are loosened, dissolved, or worn away and transported from one place to another by a natural agent, such as wind, water, ice, or gravity

• sediment
• erosion
• weathering
• igneous

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The water that was around many hundreds of years ago

• is about halfway gone
• is gone, and has been gone for a long time
• would be really dirty if it were still around
• is the same water we use today

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Define the following: all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.

• the geosphere

• the hydrosphere

• the lithosphere

• the atmosphere

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Where does literally everything get it's energy from?

• the sun
• the moon
• bacteria
• consumers

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