Environmental Science: Our Environment

All the living things with which an organism interacts is called

• Ecosystem

• Environment

• Earth

• Biome

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A carbon containing fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things

• Black Gold

• Nonrenewable

• Fossil Fuel

• Petrified Dinosaurs

A testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question

• Natural Resource

• Experiment

• Good Idea

• Hypothesis

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Enviromentalism is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect the environment

• True

• False

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A resource that is renewed or replenished over a short period of time

• Fossil Fuels

• Renewable Natural Resource

• Nonrenewable Natural Resource

• Natural Resources

The idea that unless recourses are regulated, humans will eventually use them up is known as the

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

True or False: At the start of the industrial revolution, humans began planting crops and domesticating animals

• True

• False

Resource consumption can be quantified by using a concept called the

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The variable that changes the response to the conditions set in an experiment

• Controlled Variable

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

• Experimental Variable

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When something is able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply, it is considered

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