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
How can you recognize bias?
- Certain word choices
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)
What is a dependent variable?
- The result of the manipulation of the outcome
What is an independent variable?
- The variable that is being manipulated
What is a hypothesis?
- A testable prediction often implied by a theory
What is an inference?
- A conclusion based on your observation
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.
Who was Garrett Harden?
- He coined the term “Tragedy of the commons.”
What makes a resource sustainable?
- long-term availability of a raw material that is either renewable (it can naturally replenish itself)
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.
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.
Give three examples of fossil fuels
- oil, coal, and natural gas
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.
Anthropogenic?
- Caused by, or a result of, human activity.
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
How can you recognize bias?
- Certain word choices
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)
What is a dependent variable?
- The result of the manipulation of the outcome
What is an independent variable?
- The variable that is being manipulated
What is a hypothesis?
- A testable prediction often implied by a theory
What is an inference?
- A conclusion based on your observation
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.
Who was Garrett Harden?
- He coined the term “Tragedy of the commons.”
What makes a resource sustainable?
- long-term availability of a raw material that is either renewable (it can naturally replenish itself)
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.
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.
Give three examples of fossil fuels
- oil, coal, and natural gas
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.
Anthropogenic?
- Caused by, or a result of, human activity.