Environmental Science Pre-Assessment

Briefly describe the processes of how water moves through the water cycle.

The energy pyramid shows the low of energy through the whole ecological system . Plants are referred to as?

• predators
• prey
• producers
• consumers

Biodiversity is defined as

• non living things
• every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans in an environment.
• cycles in the atmosphere and on land
• water, air and trees

A survivorship curve shows the relation of what factors?

• How a population individuals survive as a percentage of life expectancy
• Growth rate
• Death rate
• population

The water cycle, CO2 cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Sulfur cycle and the Phosphorus cycle are referred collectively as what cycles when combined?

• the atmosphere cycles
• troposphere cycles
• what makes up the earths cycles
• Biogeochemical cycles

Environmental science is the study of

• the study of the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological components of nature.
• what made the earth
• only studies living things
• only compares living and non living things

What is the driving force behind life as we know it on earth?

• Water
• Sun
• the moon
• people

A resource which is plentiful in nature is said to be

• non renewable
• renewable
• not significant
• of no importance for existence

Sustainability is referred to as

• making food for everyone
• keeping our water clean so we have a drinking supply
• making sure our animals are safe in numbers
• the ability to maintain an ecological balance in our planet’s natural environment and conserve natural resources to support the wellbeing of current and future generations.

Emigration is when

• people move out of an area by choice and go somewhere else
• when you move from one country to another
• what populations of animals do with season changes
• overpopulation