Unit 1 Test - chapters 1 and 2 only

Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact is called

• environment

• natural world

• natural resources

• renewable resources

____________ are natural resources that are naturally formed much more slowly than we use them. Once they are completely depleted, they are gone forever.

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• ethics

• prediction

________ expresses the environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required to live.

• ecological footprint

• renewable resource

• natural resoures

• theory

________ is a formal way for the researcher to get comments and criticism from the scientific community.

• ethics

• peer review

• hypothesis

• data

__________ is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

• hypothesis

• prediction

• variable

• theory

_______ is a variable that depends on the conditions set up in the experiment. Scientists have no control over it.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• hypothesis

• prediction

___________ are resources that continue at the same rate into the foreseeable future.

• sustainable resources

• independent resources

• dependent resources

• natural resources

__________ is a variable that the scientists changes in the experiment on purpose.

• dependent varibable

• independent variable

• data

• resource

This type of thought gives value to all living things.

• anthropocentrism

• biocentrism

• ecocentrism

Which of these explain how a natural phenomenon works or happens?

• theory

• law

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4