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Environmental Sciences Quiz 124 (60 MCQs)

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1. In which atmospheric layer of Earth do thunderstorms occur?
2. When a government gives cash to support an activity in an industry, it is known as a
3. What are some benefits of biodiversity?
4. What gravitational influence has the greatest effect on Earth's tides?
5. What were the Maoi made from?
6. Affect all populations similarly regardless of population size. Examples include:natural disasters, rapid climate changes (drought or floods), and human activity and disturbances
7. The term to describe how water from lakes enters the atmosphere
8. Which of the following is a sustainable resource?
9. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere?
10. C6H12O6 is also known as glucose (sugar). Where is it found?
11. Our parents work hard for us.
12. Over ..... of the Amazon is being deforested.
13. Which environmental problem is intensified by deforestation?
14. It is the study of the chemistry of materials such as rocks, soil and water.
15. Allows the skull to move independently from the shoulders
16. A greenhouse gas released from burning fossilfuels
17. Which of the following is an advantage of nuclear energy?
18. Collection of data in the form of numbers.
19. What do the arrows indicate in a food web?
20. Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes
21. A possible explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested.
22. What is the tiniest particle in the entire universe?
23. What means the same thing as heterotroph?
24. True or False:Only the Federal Government can enact environmental policy.
25. Water found below Earth's surface
26. True or False:The most common critique of the cap-and-trade system is that companies competing in a free market will produce better solutions at a lower cost than a government can.
27. All the Blue Jays in a forest are a:
28. Which of the following is the available biomass for the consumption to heterotrophs?
29. The person who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift in 1911 was .....
30. Ozone is located in the .....
31. Who would have a larger ecological footprint?
32. World Environment Day is celebrated on ..... every year.
33. The most commonly used approach to solar energy collection is ....., in which buildings are designed and building materials chosen to maximize their direct absorption of sunlight in winter, even as they keep the interior cool in the heat of summer.
34. Which is NOT true of the nitrogen cycle?
35. The area inside the city is called .....
36. It is a way of turning waste products into something useful.
37. By mid century, what percentage of the world will be urban.
38. Characteristic of a plant that allows it to survive in areas of light or sporadic rainfall.
39. Which of the following terms identifies the change from a liquid to solid?
40. Which range indicates a base/alkaline?
41. What chemical is added during tertiary treatment at a wastewater treatment facility to give a final "polishing" of the waste stream?
42. What event happened in 1849?
43. The prefix "Atmo" means .....
44. Site where continuous CO2 records have been maintained since 1958
45. If you consider what will add to our understanding of the natural world in making an environmental decision, you are examining a(n) ..... value.
46. ..... is an advantage to an organism in certain environments.
47. Phosphates in laundry detergent
48. The release of products of combustion into the air often causes the formation of ozone near the surface of Earth. This ground-level ozone in the troposphere damages plants and affects their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. What most likely caused the doubling of ground-level ozone since 1850?
49. Which organism is likely to be at the beginning of a food chain for a pond?
50. What do we call FRESH water that lies beneath the Earth's surface?
51. Inferences are conclusions or predictions based on
52. First predicted by Charles Darwin, the closest relatives to Tetrapods are
53. ..... % of the world's tropical rainforests have been cleared.
54. Which is NOT a part of infrastructure?
55. A major source of air pollution is burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, therefore, ..... electricity or switching to .....
56. Full Form of CFCs
57. According to one Environmental Principle, any intrusion from the outside may cause imbalance and collapsing of the system.
58. An organism's way of life .....
59. Why are ocean currents important to coastal regions?
60. Environmental science is an apolitical field and does not engage with political issues or advocacy.
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