Pollution and Resource Management Overview

Conflicts associated with sharing resources.

Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie.

<p>High population growth rate, extreme poverty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plants and animals were domesticated, human populations grew.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>High personal wealth, and high levels of consumption.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of living things and their interaction with their nonliving environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rate of resource use depletes resources and creates pollution and wastes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Society shifted to fossil fuels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How humans use natural resources and how human actions alter the environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Listing both the merits and expenses involved in implementing a particular environmental solution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Association used to study a subject when using an experiment is impossible or unethical.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Logical statement about what will happen if a hypothesis is correct.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Principles and standards we consider important.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chance of something happening.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Procedure for testing a hypothesis under controlled conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or is organized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Testable explanation for an observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collection and classification of data in the form of numbers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information gathered during an experiment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information gathered by using sight, hearing, smell, and touch.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A single, large, interconnected body of water that covers 70% of Earth's surface.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Tiny, liquid droplets found in the atmosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The flow of heat from a warmer object to a colder object when the objects are placed in direct physical contact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vibration caused by slippage along a fault.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lower thermosphere.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process in which liquid water is heated by the sun and then rises into the atmosphere as water vapor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bottom layer of ocean from base of thermocline to the bottom of the ocean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Earth's innermost compositional layer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Smaller streams or rivers that flow into larger ones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Includes all the water on or near Earth's surface.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The deepest point on the ocean floor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Energy released by an earthquake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Melted rock that forms a volcano.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ice caps and glaciers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Earth's densest atmospheric layer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Change in the genetic characteristics in a population from one generation to the next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process that causes the characteristics of a species to change over time through selective breeding.</p> Signup and view all the answers