Environmental science

Compare carnivores from herbivores.

• Carnivores eat grass, herbivores eat meat
• Carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants
• Carnivores eat people, herbivores don't
• The both eat meat and plants.

What is an ecosystem?

• Food chains connected to each other.
• A community of  organisms and their physical environment
• A system where there are things that move.

All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except

• linguistics.
• biology and earth sciences
• social sciences
• physics and chemistry

Which of this is considered to be part of the environment?

• Deer
• Grass
• Water
• All of these

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Emma is studying the water quality in the Puget sound, her study includes many variables. Which example is a quantitative data example?

• The water is acidic.
• The water has low sediment content.
• The water has a high quantity of plastic debris.
• The water has an average temperature of 51.9 degrees F. 

When a resource like timber is used as fast as or slower than it regrows it is being used ____.

• nonrenewably
• unsustainably
• sustainably
• synthetically

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What is an ecosystem?

• Food chains connected to each other.
• A community of  organisms and their physical environment
• A system where there are things that move.

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how do consumers get their energy?

• eating other organisms
• breaking down dead organisms
• makes its own food

 An essential feature of every good experiment is that it should 

• Use a control 
• Test a single variable
•   Graph data
•   Both a and b 

 In a scientific investigation, the size of the sample population should be large enough to

•   Reflect the probability of an unwanted outcome
•  Give an accurate estimate of the whole population
•  Closely resemble the system they represent
•   All of the above