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When making a decision about whether or not to build a dam, you are considering an economic value when you ask which of the following questions?
a) Will the dam provide new leisure activities?
b) How many jobs will building the dam generate?
c) Will building the dam destroy natural resources?
d) Is it right to build a dam here?

The three final steps of the experimental method in their correct order are
a) drawing conclusions, analyzing data, and repeating experiments.
b) drawing conclusions, repeating experiments, and communicating results.
c) observing, hypothesizing, and drawing conclusions.
d) repeating experiments, communicating results, and drawing conclusions.

Why are mathematical models important?
a) They are especially useful in situations with many variables.
b) They can be used to create useful digital images.
c) They can represent how a system or process works.
d) All of the above

Scientists use statistics to
a) graph data.
b) analyze data.
c) communicate ideas to each other.
d) All of the above

Compared to developing nations, developed nations have
a) lower health standards.
b) faster-growing populations.
c) greater personal wealth.
d) higher health standards.

Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource?
a) hunting of excess deer to maintain a healthy population size
b) intensive cultivation of farmland that exhausts soil nutrients
c) mining coal
d) increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power

Large-scale atmospheric phenomena caused by air that is constantly in motion is known as
a) conduction
b) convection
c) weather
d) hurricanes

What is the estimated temperature of Earth’s inner core?
a) 30ºC to 40ºC
b) 4,000ºC to 5,000ºC
c) 400ºC to 500ºC
d) 300ºC to 400ºC

In the troposphere, which of the following decreases as altitude increases?
a) temperature
b) radiation
c) pressure
d) both temperature and pressure

Which of the following is Earth’s densest atmospheric layer?
a) mesosphere
b) stratosphere
c) thermosphere
d) troposphere

_____ causes air to be denser near Earth’s surface.
a) Gravity
b) Temperature
c) Condensation
d) Evaporation

Deep currents flow along the
a) ocean floor.
b) ocean surface.
c) thermocline.
d) halocline

Which of the following is the layer of the ocean extending from the base of the thermocline to the bottom of the ocean?
a) surface layer
b) thermocline
c) deep zone
d) bottom zone

Which of the following plants is likely to be a pioneer species?
a) lichen
b) grass
c) shrub
d) oak tree

An example of a population is
a) all trees in a forest.
b) all maple trees in a forest.
c) all plants in a forest.
d) all animals in a forest.

Which of the following reproductive situations will limit a population’s biotic potential?
a) the minimum number of offspring each pair can produce
b) the maximum number of offspring each individual can produce
c) the number of interactions each individual has
d) the size of offspring each individual can produce

Some organisms are more likely to survive because they
a) have certain physical traits.
b) lack certain physical traits.
c) engage in certain behaviors.
d) All of the above

Most land animals depend on angiosperms for
a) reproduction
b) water
c) food
d) all of the above

Humans have inadvertently promoted the evolution of insects that are resistant to insecticides by
a) trying to control pests with chemicals.
b) using insecticides that are outdated.
c) using the wrong insecticide.
d) all of the above.

Which two kingdoms contain organisms that can use energy from the sun to make food?
a) protists and plants
b) eubacteria and plants
c) fungi and protists
d) plants and animals

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