Env Sci CH 1 Vocabulary

The ____________ includes all living and nonliving

things with which organisms interact.

• ecosystem

• environment

• ocean

• land

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• Earth Science

• Biological Science

• Environmental Science

• Physical Science

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

______________ is a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world and by extension people from undesirable changes brought about by human actions.

• Environmentalism

• Geology

• Environmental Science

• Justice

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is a natural resource?

• Resources we get from our house
• Resources we get from people
• Resources we get from nature

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NGSS.4-ESS3-1

Energy sources that are not easily replenished are called...

• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources

Renewable resources 

• can be replenished.
• cannot be replenished.
• are limited.
• are fossil fuels.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A resource is considered to be ___________ if it can continue at the same rate into the foreseeable future.

• fuel

• recycled

• nonrenewable

• sustainable

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Nonrenewable energy resources

• fossil fuels

• wind

• solar

• soil

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

An ecologic footprint is expressed in terms of

• the amount of goods and services produced by a person, business, city, nation, etc.

• the amount of land needed to provide the resources used by a person, business, city, nation, etc.

• the amount of physical space a person, business, city, nation, etc. occupies.

• the amount of resources a person, business, city, nation, etc. puts back into the environment.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A hypothesis is _________

• testable idea

• guess

• the right answer

• difficult