Environmental Sciences Quiz 125 (60 MCQs)

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1. What are some effects of global warming?
2. What results from livestock and other agricultural practices and by the decay of organic waste in municipal solid waste landfills?
3. Most of the energy with an incandescent light bulb is converted to
4. ..... is a process in the water cycle, where water vapor rises in the atmosphere.
5. Experiments are repeated to show that the results are accurate and trustworthy.
6. Rabbits hop, snakes.....
7. What five major pollutants are measured in AQI reports?
8. TRUE or FALSE:Specializing can reduce competition.
9. Where do geologic activity occur on Earth?
10. What percentage of worldwide deaths due to indoor pollution occurs in developing countries?
11. The natural process of eutrophication is accelerated when you add .....
12. How is wildlife population monitoring conducted in wetland areas?
13. Land used for livestock grazing
14. What force creates the environment needed for nuclear fusion reactions to happen in stars?
15. These are organisms that creates their own food such as plants and trees.
16. Environmental Science can
17. Which two ecosystems are terrestrial?
18. According to the law of conservation of matter, I. matter can be created II. matter cannot be destroyed III. after a chemical reaction, the original atoms remain
19. Ice Cores samples define the past air in earths atmosphere.
20. Why is recycling paper a good practice?
21. The lower soil layers where all spaces are filled with water make up the
22. How is the littoral zone described?
23. Wind Energy is .....
24. What does the term renewable energy source mean?
25. Environmental science is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
26. Primary ..... convert solar or chemical energy into energy stored in the bonds of organic sugars.
27. A resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate that it is consumed.
28. Which of the following common trash items is non-degradable?
29. Which level in the energy pyramid has the most energy?
30. Food, fuels, fibers, drinking water, and medicines are examples of?
31. Invites trade of permits among businesses
32. Hunger can be a ..... but more often is a very limited .....
33. Poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies cause nearly 1/3 of babies who are born to die prematurely or have disabilities.
34. ..... is the study of the air, water, and land surrounding an organism or a community, which ranges from a small area to Earth's entire biosphereThis also includes the study of the impact of humans on the environment.
35. What form of natural gas could be a significant alternative source of the fossil fuel?
36. Which of the following is a pull factor that leads to urban growth?
37. What are the goals of forest management?
38. ..... % is freshwater on this earth.
39. This cycle is contributing to global climate change
40. As altitude increases, air pressure.....
41. Big and strong plants are called .....
42. Living things get what they need from the ..... in which they live.
43. An organisms that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms.
44. How do heterotrophs get the Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus for their cells?
45. Temperature and pressure ..... as you move towards the center of the Earth.
46. Whose home was the early Philadelphia?
47. Which of the following is a renewable and non-renewable source of valuables available for human use?
48. ..... is made up of the facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community.
49. In which aquatic zone would you be likely to find cattails and reeds?
50. A reintroduced population of wolves in a national park is 90 percent grey and 10 percent black, consistent with the wolf population in other regions. After several generations in isolation, the national park's wolf population is 60 percent grey and 40 percent black. The wolf population has likely experienced
51. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
52. A role played by an organism in an ecosystem is known at its
53. A sudden fall of a lot of earth or rocks down a hill
54. NO.14 When the surface soil is washed away through excessive rains and floods, it is called:
55. Atmospheric greenhouse gases help heat the atmosphere by
56. What are the potential threats to waterfowl populations and their habitats?
57. Which step in the experimental method are scientists conducting when they photograph birds inflight?
58. A broad and comprehensive statement of what is thought to be true; it is supported by much evidence and repeated experimentation.
59. This cold biome has tall trees that photosynthesize all year round
60. The production of electricity is an industry that is the largest producer of .....