Unit 1: Intro to ES Test Review

______________________________ is the study of how humans interact with their environment; air, land and water.

• Ecology

• Hydrology

• Environmental Science

• Chemistry

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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______ is the study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment.  

• Ecology
• Geology
• Environmental Science
• Chemistry

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A social movement to protect nature

• environmental science

• ecology

• environmental activism

_____________ is a natural resource that is virtually unlimited or that is replenished by the environment over relatively short periods of hours to weeks to years.

• fossil fuels
• nonrenewable resources
• renewable resources

Gas, oil and diesel are all examples of...

• Renewable resources

• Non-renewable resources

Something produced in nature more slowly than it is consumed by humans

• nonrenewable resource
• renewable resource
• preservation
• resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

All of the following are renewable resources except_____________.

• energy from the sun
• minerals
• fresh water
• wind

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics

• biology and earth sciences

• social sciences

• physics and chemistry

An ecological footprint is the

• mark a person's shoe makes on the soft earth.

• number of animals a person has killed.

• amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person.

• number of trees people cut down.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The United States Ecological Footprint is......

• smaller than developing countries
• the same as developing countries
• larger than developing countries
• the smallest of any developed nation

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4