BIO 305 Exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
scientific method - correct answer ✔✔the way a scientist approaches a problem by formulating
a hypothesis and then testing it by means of an experiment
steps of scientific method - correct answer ✔✔1) recognize a question or unexplained
occurrence in the natural world
2) develop a hypothesis
3) design and perform and experiment to test the hypothesis
4) analyze and interpret the data
5) share the information
sustainable development - correct answer ✔✔environmentally sound decisions
socially equitable decisions
economically viable decisions
renewable resources - correct answer ✔✔solar energy
wind, tides, flowing water
fertile soil
clean air
fresh water
biodiversity
non-renewable resources - correct answer ✔✔metallic minerals (gold, tin)
,non-metallic minerals (salt, phosphate)
fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)
distribution of resources - correct answer ✔✔resources are not the same everywhere
renewability of resources - correct answer ✔✔resources may be renewable, but not always
available
we may use resources faster than they can replenish
scientific assessment - correct answer ✔✔risk analysis
public education & involvement
political action
long term evaluation
environmental science - correct answer ✔✔inter-disciplinary study of humanity's relationship
with other organisms and the non-living physical environment
ecology - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of systems that include interactions among
organisms and between organisms and their abiotic environment
organization of ecology - correct answer ✔✔species
population
community
ecosystem
species - correct answer ✔✔group of similar organisms whose members freely interbreed with
one another in the wild to produce fertile offspring
, population - correct answer ✔✔group of organisms of the same species that live in the same
area at the same time
community - correct answer ✔✔a natural association that consists of all the populations of
different species that live and interact within an area at the same time
ecosystem - correct answer ✔✔a community and its physical environment
biotic - correct answer ✔✔living
(marsh crab, cordgrass, dunlin, atlanti ribbed mussel)
abiotic - correct answer ✔✔non-living or physical
(precipitation, sunlight, oxygen, carbon dioxide, salinity of water)
landscape ecology - correct answer ✔✔subdiscipline of ecology that studies ecological
processes operating over large areas (connections between ecosystsem found in a region)
biosphere - correct answer ✔✔parts of Earth's atmosphere, ocean, land surface and soil that
contains all living organisms
atmosphere - correct answer ✔✔gaseous envelope surrounding Earth
bottom layers greatly influenced by other layers
hydrosphere - correct answer ✔✔Earth's supply of water - liquid and frozen, fresh and salty,
groundwater and surface water
lithosphere - correct answer ✔✔soil and rock of Earth's crust
answered to pass
scientific method - correct answer ✔✔the way a scientist approaches a problem by formulating
a hypothesis and then testing it by means of an experiment
steps of scientific method - correct answer ✔✔1) recognize a question or unexplained
occurrence in the natural world
2) develop a hypothesis
3) design and perform and experiment to test the hypothesis
4) analyze and interpret the data
5) share the information
sustainable development - correct answer ✔✔environmentally sound decisions
socially equitable decisions
economically viable decisions
renewable resources - correct answer ✔✔solar energy
wind, tides, flowing water
fertile soil
clean air
fresh water
biodiversity
non-renewable resources - correct answer ✔✔metallic minerals (gold, tin)
,non-metallic minerals (salt, phosphate)
fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)
distribution of resources - correct answer ✔✔resources are not the same everywhere
renewability of resources - correct answer ✔✔resources may be renewable, but not always
available
we may use resources faster than they can replenish
scientific assessment - correct answer ✔✔risk analysis
public education & involvement
political action
long term evaluation
environmental science - correct answer ✔✔inter-disciplinary study of humanity's relationship
with other organisms and the non-living physical environment
ecology - correct answer ✔✔the scientific study of systems that include interactions among
organisms and between organisms and their abiotic environment
organization of ecology - correct answer ✔✔species
population
community
ecosystem
species - correct answer ✔✔group of similar organisms whose members freely interbreed with
one another in the wild to produce fertile offspring
, population - correct answer ✔✔group of organisms of the same species that live in the same
area at the same time
community - correct answer ✔✔a natural association that consists of all the populations of
different species that live and interact within an area at the same time
ecosystem - correct answer ✔✔a community and its physical environment
biotic - correct answer ✔✔living
(marsh crab, cordgrass, dunlin, atlanti ribbed mussel)
abiotic - correct answer ✔✔non-living or physical
(precipitation, sunlight, oxygen, carbon dioxide, salinity of water)
landscape ecology - correct answer ✔✔subdiscipline of ecology that studies ecological
processes operating over large areas (connections between ecosystsem found in a region)
biosphere - correct answer ✔✔parts of Earth's atmosphere, ocean, land surface and soil that
contains all living organisms
atmosphere - correct answer ✔✔gaseous envelope surrounding Earth
bottom layers greatly influenced by other layers
hydrosphere - correct answer ✔✔Earth's supply of water - liquid and frozen, fresh and salty,
groundwater and surface water
lithosphere - correct answer ✔✔soil and rock of Earth's crust
