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APES CHAPTER 1 & 2 TEST QUESTIONSThe death of a billion fish in the Neuse River of North Carolina in 1991 was caused
by ... - Answers -Pfiesteria
The factor that enabled Pfiesteria to enter the life stage that caused fish kills in the
Neuse River of North Carolina is that ... - Answers -nutrients were added to the water
When we discuss "our environment" we are referring to ... - Answers -the sum of all
conditions surrounding us that influence life
The study of environmental science is concerned with ... - Answers -the interactions
among human systems and those found in nature AND biotic and abiotic interactions
with human systems
The Neuse River is considered a system because it involves ... - Answers -components
that interact and influence one another through material or energy change
An ecosystem is a location on Earth that includes ... - Answers -interacting living and
non-living components
Environmental Studies cover ... - Answers -ethics, policy, literature, and economics
The world's calculated human ecological footprint is __% of the Earth's total usable land
area. - Answers -125
If every person on Earth today lived with the average lifestyle of people in the United
States, the land of __ earths would be required. - Answers -5
A hypothesis is different from a belief because it is ... - Answers -testable
Accuracy is ... - Answers -how close a measured value is to the actual value
Precision is ... - Answers -how close a measured value is to repeated measurements of
the same sample
Inductive reasoning ... - Answers -is the process of making general statements from
specific facts
An idea that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of
researchers is called a ... - Answers -theory
A phenomenon which has been rigorously tested and to which there are no known
exceptions is called a - Answers -natural
, Controlled experiments in nature are difficult because ... - Answers -large amounts of
land are sometimes required to produce natural conditions
Natural experiments can be done when a ... - Answers -natural event changes an
ecosystem, a volcanic eruption destroys a forest, a fire sweeps through a prairie, AND a
tornado uproots a section of a forest
Natural experiments lack ... - Answers -an exact replication of the experiment
Mono Lake is a terminal lake, which means that ... - Answers -water enters the lake
through streams and leaves the lake through evaporation
Problems developed at Mono Lake as a consequence of the ... - Answers -redirection of
water that fed the lake for use by Los Angeles
The salinity problem at Mono Lake was corrected after ... - Answers -water was diverted
and the lake filled back to 2/3 of its historical depth AND the Audobon Society worked
together with the Los Angeles Department of Water
The study of a system in the context of environmental science may involve ... - Answers
-predator-prey relationships AND energy exchange
Matter is ... - Answers -anything that has volume and mass
Mass is ... - Answers -a measure of the amount of matter something contains
An element is a substance that ... - Answers -consists of one type of atom
Compounds ... - Answers -contain more than one element
Electrons are ... - Answers -negatively charged
Isotopes of an element must have the same ... - Answers -number of protons
Mass number refers to the ... - Answers -number of protons and neutrons
The rate of radioactive decay ... - Answers -is measured in half-lives
The proportion of carbon-14 in an organism is useful in figuring out the age of an
organism after it dies because ... - Answers -the proportion of carbon-14 slowly
decreases after the death of the organism
Compounds formed by elements that share electrons are held together by ... - Answers
-covalent bonds
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