The Marble Planet-Unit 1

•The Earth is estimated to be how old?

• 4.54 billion years

• 54.4 billion years

• 100 billion years

• 2.54 billion years

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There are an estimate of how many species on the Earth?

• 1 trillion to 2 trillion

• 500.3 million to 10 trillion

• 5.3 million to 1 trillion

• 2.52 million to 1 trillion

Earth is made of up interconnected parts called ________.

• biogeochemical cycles

• ecosystems

• biomes

• spheres

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The study of the environment that includes the physical, biological, and social sciences.

• Environmental Science

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Hydrology

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Goals of Environmental Science are ___________.

• Environmental scientists seek to understand and solve environmental problems.

• The environment is influenced by people and people are influenced by the environment. (Connectivity)

• ES use data & models to predict the changes in environmental systems.

• All of the above

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What is a main environmental problem.

• Pollution: An adverse change in air, water, or soil affecting humans & other organisms.

• Loss of Biodiversity: The extinction of various species.

• Resource Depletion: A large fraction utilized and not replaced.

• All the above

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The ability to maintain the Earth at a certain standard for life forms to survive indefinitely.

• Sustainability

• Reliabilty

• Permeabilty

• Leachability

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Earth is considered a ______________ because it receives radiant energy from the sun and reflects much of it back into space. Earth’s mass remains consistent

• open system

• transparent system

• circylatory system

• closed system

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Sunlight heats the _____________ and __________ driving processes on Earth.

• lithosphere & hydrosphere

• atmosphere & biosphere

• bioshphere & lithosphere

• hydrosphere & atmosphere

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Changes in Earth’s tilt on its axis produced different weather patterns. An example of what?

• Cyclic Motivation

• Cyclic Fluctuation

• Cyclic Operation

• Cyclic Combustion

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