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Environmental Sciences Quiz 121 (60 MCQs)

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1. Most of the pollutants in the ocean come from
2. Organisms that live at the bottom of oceans or bodies of fresh water
3. A. disruption B. pollutant C. emission D. atmosphere
4. An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter instead of producing its own nutrients or obtaining nutrients from inorganic sources.
5. The burning of fossil fuels .....
6. The long, thin wax coated needles of conifers help the trees
7. One of the five layers of the atmosphere, lying immediately above the troposphere and extending from 10km to about 50km above the Earth's surface
8. ..... is when the weather and temperature change over a long period of time.
9. Estuaries are a transition zone between
10. What is a point-source pollution?
11. When Convection occurs in the atmosphere
12. How can we decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
13. Scientific ideas are tested by .....
14. Which of the following of Mrs. Bennett's favorite animals is a herbivore?
15. Means "man-made"
16. The basic functional unit of life is a cell and all organisms are made up of one or more cells called .....
17. A ..... material is not found naturally in the earth but is made by people.
18. Pertaining to certain season of the year.
19. What is the name of the type of large brown algae that grows from the ocean floor of continental shelves, reaching upward toward the sunlit surface?
20. Which biome is located in the eastern third of the US, most of Europe, and Japan?
21. Which gas makes up 78% of our atmosphere but can only be used by plants when fixed by bacteria first?
22. What is one of the primary factors that draws people from rural areas to urban areas?
23. Warm water is drawn away from the equator toward the poles by
24. What is part of the atmosphere?
25. Fill in the blank: ..... :areas of land that belonged to a local municipality and used to obtain natural resources.
26. Which layer in the atmosphere protects us form harmful UV radiation?
27. A good way to save trees is to reduce one's paper usage
28. Which of the following can cause a biome to change very quickly?
29. Permeable rock layers or sediments that freely transmit groundwater are
30. Climate change involves factors, both internal and external. External ones include:A. Feedback between the atmosphere, ocean, and land surfaceB. Solar variabilityC. Earth's orbit alterationD. Variability within the climate systemE. Volcanic activityChoose from the options given below:
31. Toxic water that infiltrates through a landfill and collects at the bottom.
32. The deepest point of the ocean is called .....
33. Land used for growing and harvesting wood, and harvesting wildlife, fish, nuts, and other resources
34. The release of ..... has helped destroythe ozone layer.
35. The arrangement of members around a statistical population is called
36. Transpiration from the forests affects the relative humidity and precipitation in a place.
37. Risk is the ..... of a negative outcome.
38. When scientists formulate a testable idea about their scientific questions, they have formed a(n)
39. . What is a way that humans can help endangered species, such as the Bald Eagle, from becoming extinct
40. What is the largest coral reef on the planet?
41. Have a definite shape and volume
42. Which of the following would be considered a primary consumer? Something that eats plants
43. What are the three types of fresh water ecosystems?
44. Which is a difference between a tropical rainforest and a deciduous forest?
45. Which of the following populations has a random dispersion
46. The smallest units that still have all of the chemical properties.
47. A ..... is what you can learn about an object by using your 5 senses.
48. Determine the total size of this statistical population of dwarf wedge mussels.
49. Which of the following is not true of a deciduous tree in winter?
50. A group of philosophy that involves the study of behaviors of good and bad, right or wrong.
51. Type of ecological succession in which plants and animals colonize a habitat that was previously inhabited.
52. What does the prefix milli-mean?
53. What is the difference between and autotroph and a heterotroph?
54. The Richter scale best describes the
55. An environmental factor such as storms and extreme heat or cold that decrease a population are considered to be.
56. Because global fisheries have dramatically seen a reduction in fish numbers, this technique has been used recently to supplement that loss.
57. ..... is a climber plant
58. Tundra located north of the Arctic Circle
59. At which type of plate boundary does seafloor spreading occur?
60. What are the layers of gases surrounding our planet called?
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