Ch 1 Vocab Quiz (ES)

What is the study of how the natural world works and how we affect it?

• Environmentalism

• Environmental science

• Ecology

• Environmental ethics

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What term describes a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world from undesirable changes?

• Environmental science

• Ecology

• Environmentalism

• Environmental ethics

What are materials and energy sources found in nature that humans need to survive called?

• Nonrenewable resources

• Natural resources

• Fossil fuels

• Data

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What type of natural resources are replenished or renewed over short periods?

• Nonrenewable resources

• Fossil fuels

• Renewable resources

• Data

What are natural resources that are formed much slower than we use them called?

• Renewable resources

• Nonrenewable resources

• Data

• Environmental ethics

What does the term "sustainable" refer to?

• Depleting resources quickly

• Meeting demand without depleting supply

• Using only fossil fuels

• Ignoring environmental impact

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things called?

• Renewable resources

• Data

• Fossil fuels

• Environmental ethics

What is the environmental effect of an individual or population in terms of total land and water required called?

• Hypothesis

• Ecological footprint

• Data

• Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon?

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Environmental ethics

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is a variable that a scientist manipulates or changes in an experiment?

• Dependent variable

• Data

• Independent variable

• Theory

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2