Intro to Environmental Science

A person holding a sign during a protest against cutting down trees in a forest would be considered a(n) __________

• environmentalist
• ecological footprint
• peer reviewer
• environmental scienctist

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

________________is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.

• Environmentalism

• Environmental Science

• Biocentrism

• Ecological Footpring

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The ____________________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• Economy
• Ecosystem
• Environment
• Ecological

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the last several hundred years, human population has ___________________ dramatically.

• Increased
• Decreased
• Stayed the same
• none of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which one of the following environmental issues is the primary cause of the others?

• Increasing resource use
• Destruction of habitat
• Premature extinction
• Human population growth

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Any materials or energy from nature that humans need to survive.

• natural resource

• environment

• nonrenewable resource

• inference

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

True or False? Humans affect the environment but the environment does NOT affect us.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What has happened to human resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

• It has remained at the same level.
• It has decreased only slightly.
• It has increased dramatically.
• It has decreased dramatically.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The environment contains

• living things only.
• non-living things only.
• both living and non-living things.
• only artificial things.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Select the best definition for the term biodiversity.

• able to decompose or break down naturally
• the variety of organisms in an area
• organic
• a native species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5