Environmental Science Final

What is environmental science?

• The study of models in a community that allow scientists to simplify and better understand complex processes in the environment.

• The study of air, water and land surrounding an organism or community which ranges from a small area to the earth’s entire biosphere.

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A major goal of environmental science is to –

• Study a community which includes all interacting organisms living in an area.

• Understand and solve environmental problems.

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1. Ecology is the study of –

• Protecting all of life in the biosphere and its natural evolutionary relationships

• A. Interactions between organisms and the living and non-living components of their environment, focusing on energy transfer.

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The practice of growing, breeding, and caring for plants and animals that are used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other purposes.

• natural resources

• ecology

• environmental science

• agriculture

Environment is made up of two factors:

• Organisms and the biosphere

• Living and non-living

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The correct order for the level of organization of living things is –

• Biosphere, population, community, organism, ecosystem

• Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

An undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms is called –

• biodiversity

• pollution

• natural resource

• environmental science

Which is a biotic factor?

• Oxygen

• Water

• Air

• Animal

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Referring to the number and variety of species in a given area is called ---

• population growth

• abiotic factors

• evolution

• biodiversity

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Which is not an abiotic factor?

• sunlight

• tree

• spider