Midterm Study Guide Answer Key

Question: Environmental science

Answer: the study of human impact on the environment

Question: Ecology

Answer: the study of interactions of living organisms with one another and their nonliving environment

Question: Biology

Answer: study of living things

Question: Earth science

Answer: study of the Earth’s nonliving systems and the planet as a whole

Question: Chemistry

Answer: study of chemicals and their interactions

Question: Physics

Answer: study of matter and energy

Question: Hunter- gatherer

Answer: people who obtain food by collecting plants and by hunting wild animals or scavenging their remains

Question: Hunter- gatherer

Answer: group that impacted the environment by introducing slash and burn and overhunting large mammals but had very little impact on the environment overall

Question: Agriculture

Answer: the raising of crops and livestock for food or other products that are useful to humans

Question: Agricultural revolution

Answer: period of history when population grew, plants and animals were domesticated, and habitats were destroyed to create farmland

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