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ES Chapters 1-4
I.
CHAPTER 1
A. Identification/ Fill in the blanks
_____________1. In the Frog story, an anecdote about an experiment scientists
carried out with frogs, researches put frogs directly in hot water and
the frogs immediately jumped out of the water, scathed and
shocked, but _____.
_____________2. Next, researchers put the frogs into the water at a ______
comfortable temperature, and then slowly turned up the heat.
Surprisingly, even as the water reached the same high
temperatures, the frogs did not jump out.
_____________3. Human beings react strongly to environmental catastrophes and
accidents, but tend to ignore the small _______ ________ which also
lead to environmental degradation.
_____________4. The ________ is broadly defined as everything that surrounds us.
_____________5-6. What are the two things we need to study about the physical
environment? Hint: s_____ and s______
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_____________7-10. The study of the environment is divided into the _____, ______,
______ and _____.
_____________11. _______ is an interdisciplinary field which includes the basic
sciences (Bio, Chem, Physics and Math) plus other sciences.
_____________12-18 Other sciences refer to _____, ______, .
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_____________19-21 This interdisciplinary field (answer in 11) also include the
various medical fields such as _____, ____, _____.
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_____________22-24 Engineering disciplines include ____, _____ and ____. Hint:
ISWUP
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_____________25. The _____ are essential in the study of the role of society in the
environment.
SPECIFIC TARGETS
3. Reduce by half the
proportion of people living on
II.
CHAPTER 2
A. Identification, True or False & Multiple-choice
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_____________25. Another name for decomposer
_____________26. Each level in a food chain is called _____
_____________27. Interconnected food chains
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_____________96. Which of the 3 stated above is the deepest zone/ least light
penetrated area?
_____________97. In summer, light warms the surface waters, thus making it less
____....
_____________98. What happens to the cool and denser water?
_____________99. Term which means abrupt transition in temperature
_____________100. Cool = ______, warm = less ______
_____________101. The term estuary was derived from the latin word ____
meaning tide
_____________102. Estuaries usually contain salt marshes which are areas
dominated by ________.
a) grasses
b) rocks
c) trees
_____________103. T OR F: Estuaries are considered as one of the most fertile
areas in the world
_____________104. T OR F: The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antartic
together with their connectors and extensions make up 70% of the
Earths surface
_____________105. _____ zone is the area of the shoreline located between low and
high tides. Hint: inter_____
_____________106-107. The two divisions of marine environment
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_____________108-109 Which is the ocean floor? The ocean water?
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_____________110. Treeless country located between the forests to the south, the
Arctic Ocean and the polar icecaps to the north/ harsh winters and
short summers
_____________111. Permanently frozen ground
_____________112. An adaption in which toxic substances secreted by the roots or
shed leaves inhibit the establishment of competing plants nearby
_____________113. Temperate grassland habitats with less precipitation than the
more moist grasslands (hint: s____)
_____________114. Tropical grassland composed of widely scattered trees (s_____)
_____________115. Regions characterized as having well-ordered and often
lengthy ecological succession where herbaceous plants often
precede trees Hint: trees