ENSC 1003 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Environmentalism stemming from the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring differed from earlier
North American conservation perspectives by_________.
Answer:
Placing more emphasis on pollution problems.
Question:
2. Apple recently made an environmental upgrade to their iPhones. According to the news article presented
in class, what upgrades were made and what is the end result?
Answer:
1. Use of aluminum phone enclosures; reduced carbon footprint
2. Investments in hydroelectric power; reduced carbon footprint
Question:
3. ________ founded the Wilderness Society, authored A Sand County Almanac, and argued for
stewardship of the land.
Answer:
Aldo Leopold
Question:
4. Sustainable development means
Answer:
meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their needs.
Question:
5. Networks of interdependent components and processes with materials flowing from one component to
another are known as _________?
Answer:
systems
Question:
6. INTRAspecific competition is competition among ______ for resources.
Answer:
members of a single species.
Question:
7. In a commensal relationship, _________
Answer:
one species benefits while the other neither suffers nor benefits
, Question:
8. "Abundance" describes the total number of ________ while "diversity" describes the number of
__________.
Answer:
Organisms in a community; species in a community.
Question:
9. Complexity in an ecological community has to do with the number of _________.
Answer:
species at each trophic level.
Question:
10. Primary succession occurs when a community develops _________ while secondary succession occurs
when one ________.
Answer:
on unoccupied ground; biological community replaces another.
Question:
11. As a rule, near the Earth's north & south poles_________.
Answer:
abundance is high & diversity is low.
Question:
12. Which of the following is/are an example(s) of deductive reasoning?
Answer:
All insects have 6 legs, these butterflies have sex legs, therefore these butterflies are insects.
Question:
13. This year's snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is the driest it's been in the past 500 years. How
did scientists reach this conclusion?
Answer:
They evaluated oak tree rings.
Question:
14. The distinction between an organic compound & an inorganic compound is that organic compounds
contain________?
Answer:
Carbon
Question:
15. Pragmatic conservationists, including Pinchot & Theodore Roosevelt, support forest conservation in
order to protect _______ ?
Answer:
woods, jobs, & recreation for people.
Question:
16. Environment can de defined as __________ ?
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Environmentalism stemming from the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring differed from earlier
North American conservation perspectives by_________.
Answer:
Placing more emphasis on pollution problems.
Question:
2. Apple recently made an environmental upgrade to their iPhones. According to the news article presented
in class, what upgrades were made and what is the end result?
Answer:
1. Use of aluminum phone enclosures; reduced carbon footprint
2. Investments in hydroelectric power; reduced carbon footprint
Question:
3. ________ founded the Wilderness Society, authored A Sand County Almanac, and argued for
stewardship of the land.
Answer:
Aldo Leopold
Question:
4. Sustainable development means
Answer:
meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their needs.
Question:
5. Networks of interdependent components and processes with materials flowing from one component to
another are known as _________?
Answer:
systems
Question:
6. INTRAspecific competition is competition among ______ for resources.
Answer:
members of a single species.
Question:
7. In a commensal relationship, _________
Answer:
one species benefits while the other neither suffers nor benefits
, Question:
8. "Abundance" describes the total number of ________ while "diversity" describes the number of
__________.
Answer:
Organisms in a community; species in a community.
Question:
9. Complexity in an ecological community has to do with the number of _________.
Answer:
species at each trophic level.
Question:
10. Primary succession occurs when a community develops _________ while secondary succession occurs
when one ________.
Answer:
on unoccupied ground; biological community replaces another.
Question:
11. As a rule, near the Earth's north & south poles_________.
Answer:
abundance is high & diversity is low.
Question:
12. Which of the following is/are an example(s) of deductive reasoning?
Answer:
All insects have 6 legs, these butterflies have sex legs, therefore these butterflies are insects.
Question:
13. This year's snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is the driest it's been in the past 500 years. How
did scientists reach this conclusion?
Answer:
They evaluated oak tree rings.
Question:
14. The distinction between an organic compound & an inorganic compound is that organic compounds
contain________?
Answer:
Carbon
Question:
15. Pragmatic conservationists, including Pinchot & Theodore Roosevelt, support forest conservation in
order to protect _______ ?
Answer:
woods, jobs, & recreation for people.
Question:
16. Environment can de defined as __________ ?
