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WorksheetsIntro to Env. Sci. Ch 1 Withgott
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Advances in agriculture ________.
a)
do not include chemical fertilizers
b)
did not increase the amount of food per person from a global perspective
c)
have resulted in alteration and destruction of natural systems
d)
are viewed as one of humanityʹs greatest failures
2.
Concern for the unfair concentration of waste sites and other hazardous activities in areas that are populated by poor or minorities is:
a)
globalization
b)
environmental justice
c)
sound science
d)
sustainable development
3.
Ehrlichʹs predictions have not come true on the scale he imagined because ________.
a)
governments controlled birth rates in all countries
b)
Malthus was right
c)
pollution has reduced the birth rate in all countries
d)
agricultural advances have been made in recent decades
4.
Rocks, wind, water, temperature and solar radiation are all examples of ________.
a)
biotic environmental factors
b)
renewable resources
c)
abiotic environmental factors
d)
abiotic environmental factors
5.
Rocks, wind, water, temperature and solar radiation are all examples of ________.
a)
biotic environmental factors
b)
renewable resources
c)
nonrenewable resources
d)
abiotic environmental factors
6.
Scientific inquiry is based on ________.
a)
the production of technological advances
b)
designing experiments that have never been done before
c)
facts that can only be proven by testing hypotheses
d)
an incremental approach to truth
7.
Solutions to environmental problems ________.
a)
must be sustainable
b)
are best discussed in the political arena
c)
must be short term
d)
can be implemented only by scientists
8.
Numerical expression of the
likelihood that a conclusion is true
likelihood that a conclusion is true
a)
independent variable
b)
quantitative data
c)
dependent variable
d)
probability
9.
Type of discipline describing
environmental science
environmental science
a)
Interdisciplinary science
b)
environmentalism
c)
prediction
d)
ecology
10.
Expectations of experimental outcome
a)
hypothesis
b)
ecology
c)
prediction
d)
paradigm
11.
Sachiko and Fred are having a discussion about the scientific method. Sachiko makes the comment that every time she sees people carrying open umbrellas, she also sees several small car accidents.
This is a(n) ________.
This is a(n) ________.
a)
scientific study
b)
theory about car accidents
c)
hypothesis
d)
observation
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