Environmental Science Common Assessment

What is sustainability?

• diversity among plant and animal species

• harmful substances or products in the environment

• to take care of or control the environment

• materials that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain

What is an ecological footprint?

• diversity among plant and animal species

• harmful substances or products in the environment

• the impact of a person or community on the environment.

• to take care of or control the environment

All of the following are types of pollution except_________.

• water

• air

• littering

• recycling

Which correctly describes ecology?

• study of animals

• deals with interactions among organisms

• study of earth's land

• science concerned with livestock

Which of the following is the correct order of the steps of the scientific method?

• conclusion, analyze data, experiment, hypothesis, observation

• hypothesis, observation, experiment, analyze data, conclusion

• experiment, analyze data, observation, experiment, conclusion

• observation, hypothesis, experiment, analyze data, conclusion

What does this graph show?

• logistic growth

• carrying capacity

• negative growth

• exponential growth

What is happening to the population at K in the graph?

• births equal deaths

• more births than deaths

• more deaths than births

• only deaths

All the members of a species living in the same area at the same time is called a _________.

• species

• population

• community

• ecosystem

All of the following can limit a populations growth except ______.

• lack of food

• no shelter

• drought

• plenty of water

What type of relationship (symbiosis) is shown in the picture?

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• predation