Environmental Science unit 1

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

• TRUE

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

The process by which the scientific community examines a paper before its publication is called peer review.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Anthropocentrism describes a worldview in which all components of an ecosystem have value.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Independent variables depend on experimental conditions.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A person holding a sign during a protest against clearing the Amazon rainforest with fire would be an environmental scientist.

• peer reviewer

• ecological footprint

• environmentalist

• environmental scientist

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The environment contains

• nonliving things only

• Artificial things

• Both living and nonliving things

• living things only

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource?

• plastic

• timber

• Sunlight

• coal

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• Sustainable

• ecological

Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable resource?

• sunlight

• Natural gas

• Geothermal energy

Which of the following is ALWAYS a nonrenewable natural resource?

• wind

• soil

• fresh water

• oil