Ch. 1 Environmental Midterm Review

The example of non-renewable resources is ...

• Water

• Coal

• Wind

• Forest

Which one of these is NOT a type of renewable energy?

• Solar

• Geothermal

• Wind

• Oil

Earth's resources are being used up faster in recent years than they have in the past.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

One example of a question that can be addressed by science is...

• What type of pizza is the best...hawiian or sausage?

• Which pizza is the tastiest?

• Which pizza has a better crust?

• What percent of people prefer homemmade pizza to take-out?

When experimenting with the growth of a plant, a scientist uses three (of the same type of) plants, two different fertilizers, equal light, and equal water. What type of variable is the fertilizer?

• Dependent
• Independent
• Control
• Compound

Ms. S set up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. What is the dependent variable?

• Distance traveled by the ball
• Height of the ramp
• Mass of the ball
• Where the experiment took place.

The independent variable is the ONE thing you _____.

• change
• keep the same
• experiment with
• investigate

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The measurable factor in an experiment is known as the: 

• Control
• Independent Variable
• Constant
• Dependent Variable

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The box is brown

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

The tree is 6 meters tall

• quantitative data

• qualitative data