ENVS 1126 FINAL EXAM LATEST UPDATE 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
These organisms tend to produce many offspring, invest little time in raising offspring,
mature early, and have a short life expectancy --PRECISE ANSWER-- r-strategists
These organisms tend to have fewer offspring, but tend to raise and nurture their young.
These organisms tend to have longer lifespans and it takes them longer to mature --PRECISE
ANSWER-- k--PRECISE ANSWER-- strategist
LULU --PRECISE ANSWER-- locally unwanted land use
The agency that implements rules and regulations regarding pollution and protection of the
environment based on laws passed by congress. --PRECISE ANSWER-- EPA
began as a bipartisan widely accepted movement, but is now hotly debated and very partisan
--PRECISE ANSWER-- American enviornemtal movement
Principles that Rachel Carson preached in her book Silent spring --PRECISE ANSWER--
Sustainability and stewardship
Products of photosynthesis --PRECISE ANSWER-- oxygen and sugar
Muddy rivers carrying debris and soils are an example of the mixture between --PRECISE
ANSWER-- Lithosphere and hydrosphere
With few exceptions, inorganic molecules do not contain these types of bonds --PRECISE
ANSWER-- Carbon or Hydrogen bonds
,Without As economies grow natural resources are depleted quickly -
-PRECISE ANSWER-- Sustainability
Today DDT is not used in America, and what stage of the Command and control strategy is it
now in. --PRECISE ANSWER-- Control stage
If rivers were to catch fire, the agency in charge of an investigation and punishment would be?
--PRECISE ANSWER-- EPA
The ecological economic paradigm places the greatest emphasis on the --PRECISE ANSWER--
essential functions of the natural environment
What describes Environmental Science as a whole --PRECISE ANSWER-- Integrative and
interdisciplinary
organic compunds are usually consisting of --PRECISE ANSWER-- nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur,
phosphorus
When a high amount of toxic waste is in an area of low income and high minorities? --
PRECISE ANSWER-- Environmental Racism
Large stocks of fish in an environment represent --PRECISE ANSWER-- renewable natural capital
An example of promoting stewardship is: --PRECISE ANSWER-- promoting recycling at colleges
and universities
When a windmill turns the kinetic energy put into the system is --PRECISE ANSWER-- Less
than the energy produced
Green Economies vs Brown economies --PRECISE ANSWER-- Green Economies tend to embrace
tech that reduces pollution
, A population of bullfrogs in a pond produces many thousands of eggs each spring that hatch
out into tadpoles. However, only about 1% of the tadpoles survive to reproduce. This
population of frogs is experiencing --PRECISE ANSWER-- Low recruitment levels
Sustainable populations are often where regarding their carrying capacity --PRECISE
ANSWER-- near carrying capacity
A squirrel population in an oak forest in Indiana is limited by hawk predators, the amount of
acorns produced annually, nesting sites in the trees, and cold winter temperatures. The many
factors listed above that can affect the squirrel population represent --PRECISE ANSWER--
environmental resistance
An example of mutualism --PRECISE ANSWER-- Honeybees feeding on flowers, but pollinating at
the same time
When a species evolves into a new species, the two species must be --PRECISE ANSWER--
reproductively isolated
Abiotic --PRECISE ANSWER-- non biotic or living factors, weather,etc
HIPPO stands for: --PRECISE ANSWER-- Habitat
destruction Invasive species
Pollution
Population growth
Overexploitation
these species play a crucial role in returning nutrients back into the soil --PRECISE ANSWER--
decomposers
Wildfires will decrease if --PRECISE ANSWER-- natural forests are allowed to burn naturally
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
These organisms tend to produce many offspring, invest little time in raising offspring,
mature early, and have a short life expectancy --PRECISE ANSWER-- r-strategists
These organisms tend to have fewer offspring, but tend to raise and nurture their young.
These organisms tend to have longer lifespans and it takes them longer to mature --PRECISE
ANSWER-- k--PRECISE ANSWER-- strategist
LULU --PRECISE ANSWER-- locally unwanted land use
The agency that implements rules and regulations regarding pollution and protection of the
environment based on laws passed by congress. --PRECISE ANSWER-- EPA
began as a bipartisan widely accepted movement, but is now hotly debated and very partisan
--PRECISE ANSWER-- American enviornemtal movement
Principles that Rachel Carson preached in her book Silent spring --PRECISE ANSWER--
Sustainability and stewardship
Products of photosynthesis --PRECISE ANSWER-- oxygen and sugar
Muddy rivers carrying debris and soils are an example of the mixture between --PRECISE
ANSWER-- Lithosphere and hydrosphere
With few exceptions, inorganic molecules do not contain these types of bonds --PRECISE
ANSWER-- Carbon or Hydrogen bonds
,Without As economies grow natural resources are depleted quickly -
-PRECISE ANSWER-- Sustainability
Today DDT is not used in America, and what stage of the Command and control strategy is it
now in. --PRECISE ANSWER-- Control stage
If rivers were to catch fire, the agency in charge of an investigation and punishment would be?
--PRECISE ANSWER-- EPA
The ecological economic paradigm places the greatest emphasis on the --PRECISE ANSWER--
essential functions of the natural environment
What describes Environmental Science as a whole --PRECISE ANSWER-- Integrative and
interdisciplinary
organic compunds are usually consisting of --PRECISE ANSWER-- nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur,
phosphorus
When a high amount of toxic waste is in an area of low income and high minorities? --
PRECISE ANSWER-- Environmental Racism
Large stocks of fish in an environment represent --PRECISE ANSWER-- renewable natural capital
An example of promoting stewardship is: --PRECISE ANSWER-- promoting recycling at colleges
and universities
When a windmill turns the kinetic energy put into the system is --PRECISE ANSWER-- Less
than the energy produced
Green Economies vs Brown economies --PRECISE ANSWER-- Green Economies tend to embrace
tech that reduces pollution
, A population of bullfrogs in a pond produces many thousands of eggs each spring that hatch
out into tadpoles. However, only about 1% of the tadpoles survive to reproduce. This
population of frogs is experiencing --PRECISE ANSWER-- Low recruitment levels
Sustainable populations are often where regarding their carrying capacity --PRECISE
ANSWER-- near carrying capacity
A squirrel population in an oak forest in Indiana is limited by hawk predators, the amount of
acorns produced annually, nesting sites in the trees, and cold winter temperatures. The many
factors listed above that can affect the squirrel population represent --PRECISE ANSWER--
environmental resistance
An example of mutualism --PRECISE ANSWER-- Honeybees feeding on flowers, but pollinating at
the same time
When a species evolves into a new species, the two species must be --PRECISE ANSWER--
reproductively isolated
Abiotic --PRECISE ANSWER-- non biotic or living factors, weather,etc
HIPPO stands for: --PRECISE ANSWER-- Habitat
destruction Invasive species
Pollution
Population growth
Overexploitation
these species play a crucial role in returning nutrients back into the soil --PRECISE ANSWER--
decomposers
Wildfires will decrease if --PRECISE ANSWER-- natural forests are allowed to burn naturally
