Environmental science test 1

What type of thinking map is used for brainstorming?

- Circle map

Why is it important not to immerse hot glassware in cold water?

- Immersing hot glassware in cold water could cause the glass to shatter

What are tongs used for?

- Tongs are used to pick up heated metals and glass

What factors must be considered when evaluating risks?

- How, where, how much, and how long

How can risk be managed?

- Risk can be managed by limiting exposure

What is the difference between hazard and risk

- Hazard is the potential to cause harm, while the risk is the like hood of harm in defined circumstances

Are risk and perception the same thing?

- Risk and perception are not the same things. Risk is the like hood causing harm in defined circumstances, while perception isn’t based on facts; it’s an opinion formed before enough info is available.

How must safety limit considerations of pesticides be balanced?

- The safety limit consideration must be balanced with safeguarding health and food resources in some regions of the world.

What is bias?

- One-sided opinion in favor of or against something

10. How can you recognize bias?

- Certain word choices

11. In a line graph, how can the dependent and independent variables be displayed?

- The Independent variable is on the x-axis (horizontal line), while the dependent variable is on the y - axis (vertical line)

12. What is a dependent variable?

- The result of the manipulation of the outcome

13. What is an independent variable?

- The variable that is being manipulated

14. What is a hypothesis?

- A testable prediction often implied by a theory

15. What is an inference?

- A conclusion based on your observation

16. What is an ecological footprint?

- the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

17. Who was Garrett Harden?

- He coined the term “Tragedy of the commons.”

18. What makes a resource sustainable?

- long-term availability of a raw material that is either renewable (it can naturally replenish itself)

19. What is the tragedy of the commons?

- All less a resource is regulated, and people will take more than they need. There would be nothing left.

20. When we speak about the environment, what are we speaking about?

- All living and nonliving things with which organisms intercept. The continent, ocean, clouds, ice caps, animals, plants, forest, and farms.

21. Give three examples of fossil fuels

- oil, coal, and natural gas

22. What did Thomas Malthus believe about population growth and food supply?

- Malthus claimed that unless population growth was controlled, the number of people would outgrow the available food supply until starvation, war, or disease arose and reduced the population.

23. Anthropogenic?

- Caused by, or a result of, human activity.