Understanding Our Environment

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Earth as a “closed system”

• biodiversity

• biodegradable

• renewable resource

• nondegradable

• “spaceship Earth”

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Energy from the sun

• biodiversity

• biodegradable

• renewable resource

• nondegradable

• “spaceship Earth”

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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Mercury, lead, and some plastics

• biodiversity

• biodegradable

• renewable resource

• nondegradable

• “spaceship Earth”

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May be broken down by natural processes

• biodiversity

• biodegradable

• renewable resource

• nondegradable

• “spaceship Earth”

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The number and variety of species that live in the area

• biodiversity

• biodegradable

• renewable resource

• nondegradable

• “spaceship Earth”

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Because environmental science encompasses so many different fields of study, it is said to be a(n) ____________ science.

• ecological

• interdisciplinary

• social

• human

Which period in human history occurred prior to the others listed below.

• Industrial Revolution

• hunter-gatherer

• post-Industrial Revolution

• agricultural revolution

To survive hunter-gatherers changed their environment by

• burning the prairies to prevent trees from growing.

• spreading plants to areas beyond where they originally grew.

• Both (a) and (b)

• Neither (a) nor (b)

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During the agricultural revolution,

• plants and animals were domesticated.

• fossil fuel use increased.

• human populations decreased due to disease.

• Both (a) and (c)

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The ____________ was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution.

• over hunting of large mammals

• improvement in quality of life

• shift to the use of fossil fuels 

• growth of cities