PART 1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

A testable statement that provides a possible answer to a question or an explanation to an observation.

• Prediction

• Experiments

• Hypothesis

• Observation

The fundamental unit of matter

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  cell

• 
  quarks

• 
  atom

• 
  solution

______________are formed when two or more atoms are chemically bind to one another.

• Compound

• 
  Element

• 
  Colloids

• Mixture

Which of the statement best describes environmental science?

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    It deals with living things, their vital statistics and all the physicochemical aspects of life.

• It is concerned with organisms and how they interact with the environment around them.

• It draws from more than one branch of knowledge to study environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.

• It deals with the complex of living organisms , their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit space.

A consumer that can eat both plants and animals.

• 
  herbivores    

• autotrophs

• 
  carnivores    

• omnivores

The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar.

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  Photosynthesis       

• Glycolysis

• Aerobic Respiration

• 
  Krebs Cycle

A community of different species interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy

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  Community

• Biosphere

• 
  Ecosystem

• Population

All of the following are abiotic factors EXCEPT:

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  Air

• 
  Soil

• 
  Animals

• Sun Light

The neutral charged particle of an atom

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  Proton

• Electron

• Cation

• Neutron

The study of the interactions between organisms and their environment

• Biology

• Sociology

• Geology

• Ecology