Environmental Science Chap 1 Vocabulary Test

Which is NOT a way of decreasing your ecological footprint?

• Easting less meat and processed food

• Walking or biking to school

• Turning off the electricity and water when you're not using it

• Not recycling when given the chance

An example of point-source pollution is ______________

• fertilizer runoff emitted by power plants

• fertilizer runoff from agricultural fields

• pollutants emitted by power plants in a region

• a sewer pipe dumping raw sewage into a stream

What does non-renewable mean?

• to protect from loss

• not able to replenish itself

• to increase to the greatest possible amount

• able to replenish itself.

Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because they____________.

• require expensive equipment

• can be found all over

• take millions of years to replace

• provide all the energy we use.

The term for the deterioration of the soil characteristics needed for plant growth or other ecosystem services _______________.

• soil enhancement

• soil improvement

• soil degradation

• soil amendments

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

What is not an example of an ecosystem service?

• nutrient cycling

• disease spread

• purification of water and air

• renewal of topsoil

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The type of natural resource that has a continuous supply and is expected to last at least 6 billion years.

• renewable resource

• inexhaustible resource

• nonrenewable resource

• recyclable resource

The three types of natural resources are renewable resources,

nonrenewable resources and inexhaustible resources.

• True

• False

What is NOT a goal of environmental science?

• Learn how life on earth thrived.

• Understand how humans interact with the environment

• Find ways to deal with environmental problems

• Discover Earth's landforms and landscapes

Sustainability is _______________.

• Interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment

• Sources of pollution that are difficult to pinpoint.

• The ability of Earth's natural systems and human cultural systems to survive and flourish into the long-time future

• Free natural services provided by healthy ecosystems that support human life and economies.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3