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Question: Answer the question in 1-3 complete sentences.

Question 1. What tools are used to help characterize the risk of environmental factors such as toxins?

Question 2. Define and give three examples of ecosystem services that you use every day.

Question 3. Give environmental examples of deferred costs, external costs, and opportunity cost

Question 4. How do scientific disciplines differ from nonscientific disciplines?

Question 5. Why are events that happen only once difficult to analyze from a scientific point of view?

Question 6. Imagine you have a bucket of water sitting high on a ladder. What type of energy would that bucket of water contain? If that bucket were overturned, what type of energy would that water now contain?

Question 7. Find an article or site in the news in the last 5 years on a topic covered in this Unit. Briefly describe how it is connected to what you learned and provide the full citation for the source.

Answer the question fully using at least 4 complete sentences.

Question 8. Imagine you owned a small business in the United States and wanted to expand your business within your home state. You find that purchasing a contaminated piece of property in a downtown area is relatively cheap, and you could build your needed structure pretty cheap, as well. Would you be concerned about the environmental liabilities associated with purchasing that property or about the health and safety of your workers if you located there? Why or why not? What could you do to determine the risk? What type of risk tolerance would you think about concerning your finances, your workers' health and safety, and your long-term investment in that property?

Question 9. You live near agricultural field where there are eight (8) small ponds nearby. One day, you observe that a high percentage of frogs have birth defects in every pond, and you know that frogs are especially sensitive to environmental poisons. You suspect that agricultural chemicals running off from the nearby agricultural fields might be entering the ponds and causing these mutations.

Based on this situation, state a hypothesis in your own words. Then, describe a small experiment that might help you support or reject your hypothesis.

Attachment:- hypothesis.rar