What is environmental science?

Why is environmental science considered an interdisciplinary field?

What is scientific inquiry?

What does CONPTT stand for?

Review your “science is and science is not” handout from the beginning of the year. Know what makes something a “science”! (CONPTT)

What is the difference between an observation and an inference?

What is a food web? What is a food chain? How are they different?

In your own words, explain the 10% rule.

Practice: If you 600 million calories were available to the primary consumers, approximately how many calories would be available to the quaternary consumers? SHOW YOUR WORK!

The following questions are answered below

Explanation:

Environmental science

Environmental science is defined as study of relationships of the natural world and organisms and their environments.

Environmental science considered an interdisciplinary field?

Environmental science is interdisciplinary because each and every scientist should know the concepts of population dynamics, biology, economics, and energy, chemistry, etc. to handle the environmental issues.

What is scientific inquiry?

Scientific inquiry defines the diverse ways in which the scientists study about the natural world and provide the explanations for their work.

What does CONPTT stand for?

CONPTT stands for consistent, Observable, Natural, Predictable, Testable, And Tentative.

“science is and science is not”

A non- science is the study that is not scientific and that is not a natural science or a science that is an object of scientific inquiry.

difference between an observation and an inference

Inference is the act of inferring and observation is the act or instance of noticing .

What is a food web? What is a food chain? How are they different?

A food web consists of many food chains and the food chains has one path as animals find food.

explain the 10% rule.

The 10 % law states that the transfer of energy from one trophic level to the other.

If you 600 million calories were available to the primary consumers, approximately how many calories would be available to the quaternary consumers?

The primary consumers obtain only a fraction of solar energy about 10% that is captured by the producers they eat.

the cladogram shown here shows similarities and differences among several classes of vertebrates. anatomically, the four have limb structure as their common ancestor. we might separate the mammals from the other three classes because they a) divergent; do not lay eggs b) identical; are warm-blooded c) varied; a four chambered heart d) homologous; have mammary glands

the correct answer is b