Env Sci - Unit 1 Review 2021

What is Environmental Science?

• a) The study of the Environment and its issues

• b) Focus and aim on acting to protect the environment

• the study of the interaction of humans with the natural environment.

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Which of the following are considered part of the environment?

• forest
• people
• buildings
• all of these

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Who studies the effects of the environment on animal life?

• Producer
• Vet
• Breeder
• Ecologist

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A possible explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

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A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

An overall procedure carried out to gather data about an object or event (not just to test a hypothesis).

• evidence

• inquiry

• investigation

• experiment

Information, collected during an investigation, to support a hypothesis.

• evidence

• inquiry

• experiment

• control variable

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A procedure you carry out under controlled conditions to test a hypothesis.

• hypothesis

• inquiry

• experiment

• investigation

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Which of these contains steps in the right order?

• Ask a question, form a hypothesis, research, plan and conduct an investigation, draw conclusions, report and share results, make a conclusion

• Form a hypothesis, ask a question, research, plan and conduct an investigation, draw conclusions, report and share results

• Observe and ask questions, form a hypothesis, plan and conduct an investigation, draw conclusions, report and share results

• Form a hypothesis, ask a question, research, report and share results, plan and conduct an investigation, draw conclusions

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The gradual change in species over time is...

• Evolution
• Nucleotide 
• Adaptation
• Natural Selection

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