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Environmental Sciences Quiz 106 (60 MCQs)

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1. In a hurricane, winds move towards the ..... and get deflected to the ..... in the northern hemisphere
2. Which is an example of negative feedback
3. A ..... is a group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic and biotic conditions.
4. Coal is formed from
5. How do humans alter the carbon cycle?
6. A decision-making process in which you compare what you will sacrifice and gain by a specific action
7. What is the term for sharing a car with other people instead of driving alone?
8. Which is an example of an energy resource?
9. Which choice isn't a source of outdoor pollution?
10. The metic unit for measuring length is .....
11. The continent that has the most countries suffering from a lack of food security is:
12. Higher temperatures cause more evaporation which leads to more water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas so will trap more heat so the atmosphere will warm more.
13. This word is used to describe land-based habitats
14. Does the word endemic mean the same as endangered
15. Combined ocean and atmospheric cycle that results in weakened trade winds across the Pacific Ocean
16. Choose the correct answer to fill in the missing content in the concept below? "..... is development that meets the needs of the present without harming the ability of future generations to meet those needs on the basis of a close and harmonious combination of economic growth., ensuring social progress and protecting natural resources
17. Which of the following is not a mechanism of energy transfer through or within Earth's atmosphere?
18. What kind of resource is water?
19. Known for being the most bio-diverse land Biome
20. What does the ozone layer stop most of from reaching the earth?
21. What is an environmental service that forests provide?
22. What is the purpose of biodegradable plastics?
23. The beaver cuts down trees to eat and to build dams, which make wetlands that become home to other animals and plants. The role a species plays in its ecosystem, including its preferred climate and food source, is its .....
24. Geothermal energy is obtained by harnessing
25. Select true or false:Hydropower is energy that comes from water
26. Carbon dioxide + water + sunlight = sugar + oxygenis the chemical equation for .....
27. Environmental science is a study of which types of interactions?
28. The script used for reading by blind people is called as .....
29. Hydrogen could be used as a fuel source in the future because it
30. Nonrenewable energy resources, such as oil, coal, and natural gas, are known as
31. Consumers are otherwise known as
32. Succession that occurs in areas that previously didn't support life, such as on rocks or ice
33. As rain falls on a landfill, it sinks through the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW = garbage), picking up pesticides, heavy metals and organic compounds. This liquid is called
34. What form of electromagnetic radiation is released by the sun and used by plants to perform photosynthesis?
35. In which layer of Earth's atmosphere does weather occur?
36. How long will it take for chlorofluorocarbons released from Earth s surface today to reach the stratosphere?
37. ..... variables are variables kept constant in a study.
38. True or False. Greenhouse Gasses trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
39. If a country has a Ecological Reserve, that means it
40. What is an adaptation for the tundra?
41. What is special about graduated cylinders?
42. A farmer wants to increase his crop yields of corn with little to no use of pesticides.Which of the following would the BEST solution?
43. When earthworms are added to the compost the product obtained is called
44. Food crops, timber and animal food sources are all examples of .....
45. Kawasan Paper Kite Butterfly-Kaba-kaba Idea leuconoe jumaloni Sub specie of Idea leoconoe specie of butterfly A new specie of butterfly endemic in Cebu discovered along Kawasan River inMatutinao, Badian. It was scientifically described by Collin G. Treadaway and was named in honor of the late Julian Jumalon, Cebu's known lepidopterist. Does a lepidopterist collect?
46. In general, developed countries have (a) ecological footprint than developing or under developed countries.
47. Which steps usually occur near the end of a scientific investigation?
48. Search for mineral deposits is called:
49. Which list has only consumers?
50. The amount of land is required to live the way you do
51. Denitrifying bacteria are responsible for changing
52. True or False:As you go up in trophic levels the concentration of mercury in an organism will decrease.
53. Without decomposers and detritivores in our environment, we would have
54. Which type of macromolecule is composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur, and can produce tissues, act as hormones, and serve as enzymes?
55. What are human modifications to the environment?
56. What makes up the cloud around the nucleus?
57. Warm ocean currents generally come from
58. What is the full form of UNFCCC
59. Leslie surveyed the 9 youngest students in the elementary school. Is this sample of the students in the school likely to be representative of all the students in the school?
60. The Greenhouse Effect is ..... process.
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