Intro to Environmental Science Chapter 1

The environment contains

• living things

• nonliving things

• both living and non living

• artificial things

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Which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource?

• coal

• sunlight

• timber

• plastic

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Which of the following is ALWAYS a nonrenewable natural resource?

• wind

• freshwater

• oil

• soil

"a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question" is the definition of a (an)

• prediciton

• hypothesis

• theory

• experiment

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Which of the following phrases is missing below?

• supports hypothesis

• proves hypothesis

• refutes hypothesis

• disproves hypothesis

Experiments or observational studies in which only one variable is manipulated are described as

• controlled.

• observed.

• dependent.

• independent.

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The branch of philosophy that deals with good, bad, right, and wrong is called

• logic.

• ethics.

• science.

• culture.

Which of the following is the primary difference between a theory and a hypothesis?

• A theory deals only with the natural world, a hypothesis does not.

  B.

• A theory is tested, a hypothesis is not.

• A theory is not tested, a hypothesis is.

• A theory is broader than a hypothesis, dealing with a wider range of situations and observations.

The variable a scientist manipulates in an experiment is called the

• controlled variable.

• observation variable.

• dependent variable.

• independent variable.

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

• True

• False

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