Ecology Unit One Vocab

___________ is any natural material that is used by humans, such as, water, petroleum, minerals, forests, and animals.

The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their environment is called ___________.

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Renewable Resource

What is the study of the air, water and land surrounding and organism or community called?

• Ecology

• Environmental Science

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

What does biodiversity mean?

• Only one species in an area.
• The different amount of species in an area
• All abiotic life
• Nitrogen fixation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Pollution _________________________.

• is harmful materials put into the environment
• found in air, water, and land
• effects plants, animals, and people
• All of the above

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NGSS.5-ESS2-1

NGSS.5-ESS3-1

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

What characteristic do all renewable resources share?

• Produced by waste products of animals
• Form underground from dead organisms
• Allow energy to pass through them easily
• Replaced in a reasonably short time period

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life.

• True

• False

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

NGSS.5-ESS3-1

Agriculture is best defined as 

• the hunting and gathering
• the altering genetic material of plants
• the cultivation of plants/domesticating animals
• using technology to increase production