ENVR 1301 EXAM 1 REVIEW
(HOMEWORK) QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Which u.s. government designation provides the most protection from human damage to a
public area - ANS wilderness act
which of the following is true - ANS species on earth today are only a fraction of all species
that have ever lived
proteins - ANS composed of amino acids, function as enzymes and hormones, play a key role
in immune system
nucleic acids - ANS composed of nucleotides and function to transmit hereditary info
carbohydrates - ANS source of energy (starch), used to build cell walls (cellulose), composed
of simple sugars or macromolecules
Your friend plants Roundup Ready seeds in her garden and several months later notices that her
garden is overrun with weeds. She calls the seed company to complain. How should the
customer service agent respond? - ANS The customer service agent should point out that the
Roundup Ready plants would survive being sprayed with Roundup. Your friend never used
Roundup on her garden, so the weeds overran her garden.
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, Which of the following horizons of soil would most likely contain the most minerals? -
ANS the B horizon
Example of positive feedback loop - ANS a snowball rolling down a hill accumulates snow and
becomes larger, which increases its speed, causing it to increase size and speed even more
example of negative feedback loop - ANS a dog pants as it lies in the hit summer sun,
releasing excess body heat to the environment and lowering its body temperature to its stable
state
causes of deforestation - ANS growing demand for wood products, expansion of farming,
subsistence grazing
consequences of deforestation - ANS more surface runoff, soil erosion, decreased carbon
sequestration
solutions to deforestation - ANS more tree planting, wood substitution, recycling of paper
problems
the scientific method - ANS cannot prove a hypothesis to be true
during the past half century, global food production has ______ world population growth -
ANS grown at a faster rate than
what force joins two water mollecules - ANS hydrogen bond
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(HOMEWORK) QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS 2026/2027
Which u.s. government designation provides the most protection from human damage to a
public area - ANS wilderness act
which of the following is true - ANS species on earth today are only a fraction of all species
that have ever lived
proteins - ANS composed of amino acids, function as enzymes and hormones, play a key role
in immune system
nucleic acids - ANS composed of nucleotides and function to transmit hereditary info
carbohydrates - ANS source of energy (starch), used to build cell walls (cellulose), composed
of simple sugars or macromolecules
Your friend plants Roundup Ready seeds in her garden and several months later notices that her
garden is overrun with weeds. She calls the seed company to complain. How should the
customer service agent respond? - ANS The customer service agent should point out that the
Roundup Ready plants would survive being sprayed with Roundup. Your friend never used
Roundup on her garden, so the weeds overran her garden.
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, Which of the following horizons of soil would most likely contain the most minerals? -
ANS the B horizon
Example of positive feedback loop - ANS a snowball rolling down a hill accumulates snow and
becomes larger, which increases its speed, causing it to increase size and speed even more
example of negative feedback loop - ANS a dog pants as it lies in the hit summer sun,
releasing excess body heat to the environment and lowering its body temperature to its stable
state
causes of deforestation - ANS growing demand for wood products, expansion of farming,
subsistence grazing
consequences of deforestation - ANS more surface runoff, soil erosion, decreased carbon
sequestration
solutions to deforestation - ANS more tree planting, wood substitution, recycling of paper
problems
the scientific method - ANS cannot prove a hypothesis to be true
during the past half century, global food production has ______ world population growth -
ANS grown at a faster rate than
what force joins two water mollecules - ANS hydrogen bond
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