Environmental Science Final exam with Correct
Answer Latest Update 2025
A calculation that states that the productive area of Earth needed to support one
person in a particular country. - Correct answer Ecological footprint. U.S has the
largest footprint
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment - Correct answer
Ecosystem
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
- Correct answer Food web
A gradual increase in global temperature - Correct answer Global warming
A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area
and interbreed. - Correct answer Population
A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant
and animal communities - Correct answer Biome
A law of economics that states that as the demand for a good increases, the value of
the good or service also increases. (ex. oil) - Correct answer Law of Supply and
Demand
A material that can be broken down by biological processes - Correct answer
Biodegradable
A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet such as Earth - Correct answer
Atmosphere (oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen)
A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived
long ago - Correct answer Fossil fuels (ex. oil, coal, and natural gases)
A pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding
patterns of a series of organisms - Correct answer Food chain
A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other <- -> - Correct
answer Divergent
A plate boundary where two plates move towards each other -><- - Correct answer
Convergent
