ENVSC DR. WOOD UARK EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. environment
Answer:
1. the circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms
2. the complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community
3. all the external conditions, both abiotic and biotic, that affect and organism or group of organisms
Question:
2. environmental science
Answer:
systematic, scientific study of our environment as well as our proper role in it
-> an interdisciplinary study of how humanity affects other living organisms and the nonliving physical
environment
-> connection of human numbers to natural resources to pollution
Question:
3. environmental sustainability
Answer:
the ability of an economy to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely
Question:
4. social sustainability
Answer:
the ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined level of social well being
indefinitely.
Question:
5. for the complete sustainability problem to be solved, all 3 pillars of sustainability must be sustainable,
what are they?
Answer:
social, environmental, economic
Question:
6. population in world
Answer:
> 7 billion
Question:
7. signs of hope
Answer:
population & pollution, health, access to current information, habitat conservation, renewable energy,
international cooperation
, Question:
8. science
Answer:
1. a methodical, logical process for gaining knowledge about natural phenomena
2. a cumulative body of knowledge produced by informed, learned scholars
3. a process based on careful observation, inference, and hypothesis testing
4. a way for us to explain how the natural world works
Question:
9. accuracy
Answer:
correctness of measurements
Question:
10. precision
Answer:
repeatability of results
Question:
11. deductive reasoning
Answer:
logical reasoning from general to specific
Question:
12. inductive reasoning
Answer:
reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule
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13. hypothesis
Answer:
testable explanation for cause of an observed phenomenon
Question:
14. scientific theory
Answer:
a description or explanation that has been supported by a large number of tests and is considered by experts
to be reliable
Question:
15. theory of plate tectonics
Answer:
continental drift
Question:
16. theory of evolution
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. environment
Answer:
1. the circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms
2. the complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community
3. all the external conditions, both abiotic and biotic, that affect and organism or group of organisms
Question:
2. environmental science
Answer:
systematic, scientific study of our environment as well as our proper role in it
-> an interdisciplinary study of how humanity affects other living organisms and the nonliving physical
environment
-> connection of human numbers to natural resources to pollution
Question:
3. environmental sustainability
Answer:
the ability of an economy to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely
Question:
4. social sustainability
Answer:
the ability of a social system, such as a country, to function at a defined level of social well being
indefinitely.
Question:
5. for the complete sustainability problem to be solved, all 3 pillars of sustainability must be sustainable,
what are they?
Answer:
social, environmental, economic
Question:
6. population in world
Answer:
> 7 billion
Question:
7. signs of hope
Answer:
population & pollution, health, access to current information, habitat conservation, renewable energy,
international cooperation
, Question:
8. science
Answer:
1. a methodical, logical process for gaining knowledge about natural phenomena
2. a cumulative body of knowledge produced by informed, learned scholars
3. a process based on careful observation, inference, and hypothesis testing
4. a way for us to explain how the natural world works
Question:
9. accuracy
Answer:
correctness of measurements
Question:
10. precision
Answer:
repeatability of results
Question:
11. deductive reasoning
Answer:
logical reasoning from general to specific
Question:
12. inductive reasoning
Answer:
reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule
Question:
13. hypothesis
Answer:
testable explanation for cause of an observed phenomenon
Question:
14. scientific theory
Answer:
a description or explanation that has been supported by a large number of tests and is considered by experts
to be reliable
Question:
15. theory of plate tectonics
Answer:
continental drift
Question:
16. theory of evolution
