ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE REVIEW TIPS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Exponential Growth - ✔✔growth pattern in which the individuals in a population
reproduce at a constant rate.
✔✔Carrying Capacity - ✔✔largest number of individuals of a population that a
environment can support.
✔✔Niche - ✔✔(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and
community. (affecting its survival as a species)
✔✔Predation - ✔✔the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey.
✔✔Parasitism - ✔✔Symbolic relationship in which one organism lives on or in another
organism and harms it.
✔✔Mutualism - ✔✔symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the
relationship.
✔✔Symbiosis - ✔✔relationship in which two species live closely together.
✔✔Demography - ✔✔the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human
populations.
✔✔Age Structure - ✔✔proportion of people in different age groups in a population.
✔✔Fertility Rate - ✔✔the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area.
✔✔Migration - ✔✔the movement of persons from one country or locality to another.
, ✔✔Life Expectancy - ✔✔an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical
probabilities.
✔✔Mortality - ✔✔death rate.
✔✔Emigration - ✔✔movement of individuals out of an area.
✔✔Immigration - ✔✔movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing
population.
✔✔Developed - ✔✔industrialized, lower population growth.
✔✔Developing - ✔✔agricultural, higher population growth.
✔✔Endangered Species - ✔✔close to extinction.
✔✔Threatened Species - ✔✔a species that could become endangered in the near
future.
✔✔Exotic Species - ✔✔organisms that are not native to a particular area.
✔✔Poaching - ✔✔illegal hunting.
✔✔Endemic Species - ✔✔species that are native to and found only within a limited
area.
✔✔Surface Water - ✔✔Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers,
streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.
✔✔River System - ✔✔a river and its tributaries.
✔✔Watershed - ✔✔the area of land that is drained by a water system.
✔✔Groundwater - ✔✔water under the earth's surface.
✔✔Aquifer - ✔✔a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow
of groundwater.
✔✔Porosity - ✔✔The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists
of open spaces.
✔✔Permeability - ✔✔ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Exponential Growth - ✔✔growth pattern in which the individuals in a population
reproduce at a constant rate.
✔✔Carrying Capacity - ✔✔largest number of individuals of a population that a
environment can support.
✔✔Niche - ✔✔(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and
community. (affecting its survival as a species)
✔✔Predation - ✔✔the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey.
✔✔Parasitism - ✔✔Symbolic relationship in which one organism lives on or in another
organism and harms it.
✔✔Mutualism - ✔✔symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the
relationship.
✔✔Symbiosis - ✔✔relationship in which two species live closely together.
✔✔Demography - ✔✔the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human
populations.
✔✔Age Structure - ✔✔proportion of people in different age groups in a population.
✔✔Fertility Rate - ✔✔the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area.
✔✔Migration - ✔✔the movement of persons from one country or locality to another.
, ✔✔Life Expectancy - ✔✔an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical
probabilities.
✔✔Mortality - ✔✔death rate.
✔✔Emigration - ✔✔movement of individuals out of an area.
✔✔Immigration - ✔✔movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing
population.
✔✔Developed - ✔✔industrialized, lower population growth.
✔✔Developing - ✔✔agricultural, higher population growth.
✔✔Endangered Species - ✔✔close to extinction.
✔✔Threatened Species - ✔✔a species that could become endangered in the near
future.
✔✔Exotic Species - ✔✔organisms that are not native to a particular area.
✔✔Poaching - ✔✔illegal hunting.
✔✔Endemic Species - ✔✔species that are native to and found only within a limited
area.
✔✔Surface Water - ✔✔Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers,
streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.
✔✔River System - ✔✔a river and its tributaries.
✔✔Watershed - ✔✔the area of land that is drained by a water system.
✔✔Groundwater - ✔✔water under the earth's surface.
✔✔Aquifer - ✔✔a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow
of groundwater.
✔✔Porosity - ✔✔The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists
of open spaces.
✔✔Permeability - ✔✔ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it.
