Chapter 1 An Introduction to Environmental Science

Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact is called

• environment

• natural world

• natural resources

• renewable resources

____________ are natural resources that are naturally formed much more slowly than we use them. Once they are completely depleted, they are gone forever.

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• ethics

• prediction

______ is a branch of philosophy that involves the study of behavior- good and bad, right and wrong

• ethics

• hypothesis

• data

• variable

_________ is the information obtained from a scientist

• data

• variable

• hypothesis

• prediction

__________ includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact.

• environment

• prediction

• variable

• hypothesis

________ expresses the environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required to live.

• ecological footprint

• renewable resource

• natural resoures

• theory

________ is a formal way for the researcher to get comments and criticism from the scientific community.

• ethics

• peer review

• hypothesis

• data

________ are materials and energy resources found in nature that humans need to survive.

• natural resources

• nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• predictions

_______ are natural resources that are naturally replenished or renewed over short periods of time.

• renewable natural resources

• nonrenewable natural resources

• data

• independent variable

__________ is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

• hypothesis

• prediction

• variable

• theory