ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔photosynthesis; cellular respiration - ✔✔_______ removes carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere, and _______ puts it back
✔✔Detritivore - ✔✔organism that feeds on plant and animal remains and other dead
matter
✔✔Decomposer - ✔✔An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
✔✔scavenger - ✔✔A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
✔✔Herbivore - ✔✔A consumer that eats only plants.
✔✔energy pyramid - ✔✔A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from
one feeding level to another in a food web
✔✔the rule of 10% - ✔✔Only 10% of energy is transferred from one organism to
another, the other 90% is lost in the transaction through heat
✔✔food web vs food chain - ✔✔the food web is more accurate than the food chain
because with the food web, you can see multiple animals/plants that eat or are eaten by
another, while the food chain just shows one organism eats one more, which eats
another, which eats another, and so on
✔✔trophic level - ✔✔Each step in a food chain or food web
✔✔sun - ✔✔A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar
system.
✔✔Borneo Cat Drop - ✔✔Sprayed DDT to kill mosquitoes because of malaria outbreak.
Shows environmental problems are hard to solve.
, ✔✔36-38 - ✔✔How many ATP are produced during cellular respiration?
✔✔natural capital - ✔✔The natural resources of Earth, such as air, water, and minerals.
✔✔How do humans degrade natural capital? - ✔✔By using normally renewable
resources (such as forests) faster than nature can renew them
✔✔Solutions can Protect Natural Capital - ✔✔Scientific vs. economic and political
solutions
Trade-offs and compromises
Daily individual and local contributions matter
✔✔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.
✔✔exponential growth - ✔✔Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population
reproduce at a constant rate
✔✔Cohesion - ✔✔Attraction between molecules of the same substance
✔✔Adhesion - ✔✔An attraction between molecules of different substances
✔✔capillary action - ✔✔tendency of water to rise in a thin tube
✔✔surface tension - ✔✔A measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of
a liquid
✔✔Macromolecules - ✔✔A very large organic molecule composed of many smaller
molecules
✔✔Protein - ✔✔An organic compound that is made of one or more chains of amino
acids and that is a principal component of all cells
✔✔function of proteins - ✔✔Assists in growth and repair
-Found in animal products; enzymes, make bones and muscle;
✔✔monomer of proteins - ✔✔amino acids
✔✔Carbohydrates - ✔✔made up of monosaccharides like glucose
✔✔Functions of Carbohydrates - ✔✔short term energy
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔photosynthesis; cellular respiration - ✔✔_______ removes carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere, and _______ puts it back
✔✔Detritivore - ✔✔organism that feeds on plant and animal remains and other dead
matter
✔✔Decomposer - ✔✔An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
✔✔scavenger - ✔✔A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
✔✔Herbivore - ✔✔A consumer that eats only plants.
✔✔energy pyramid - ✔✔A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from
one feeding level to another in a food web
✔✔the rule of 10% - ✔✔Only 10% of energy is transferred from one organism to
another, the other 90% is lost in the transaction through heat
✔✔food web vs food chain - ✔✔the food web is more accurate than the food chain
because with the food web, you can see multiple animals/plants that eat or are eaten by
another, while the food chain just shows one organism eats one more, which eats
another, which eats another, and so on
✔✔trophic level - ✔✔Each step in a food chain or food web
✔✔sun - ✔✔A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar
system.
✔✔Borneo Cat Drop - ✔✔Sprayed DDT to kill mosquitoes because of malaria outbreak.
Shows environmental problems are hard to solve.
, ✔✔36-38 - ✔✔How many ATP are produced during cellular respiration?
✔✔natural capital - ✔✔The natural resources of Earth, such as air, water, and minerals.
✔✔How do humans degrade natural capital? - ✔✔By using normally renewable
resources (such as forests) faster than nature can renew them
✔✔Solutions can Protect Natural Capital - ✔✔Scientific vs. economic and political
solutions
Trade-offs and compromises
Daily individual and local contributions matter
✔✔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.
✔✔exponential growth - ✔✔Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population
reproduce at a constant rate
✔✔Cohesion - ✔✔Attraction between molecules of the same substance
✔✔Adhesion - ✔✔An attraction between molecules of different substances
✔✔capillary action - ✔✔tendency of water to rise in a thin tube
✔✔surface tension - ✔✔A measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of
a liquid
✔✔Macromolecules - ✔✔A very large organic molecule composed of many smaller
molecules
✔✔Protein - ✔✔An organic compound that is made of one or more chains of amino
acids and that is a principal component of all cells
✔✔function of proteins - ✔✔Assists in growth and repair
-Found in animal products; enzymes, make bones and muscle;
✔✔monomer of proteins - ✔✔amino acids
✔✔Carbohydrates - ✔✔made up of monosaccharides like glucose
✔✔Functions of Carbohydrates - ✔✔short term energy
