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Environmental Sciences Quiz 126 (60 MCQs)

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1. Communication can be shown by:
2. Hydrocarbons contain only carbon and (a)
3. Which of the following best explains the energy transformations that occur in a coal burning power plant (in the correct order)?
4. Developed nations make up about ..... percent of the world's population and consume about ..... percent of its resources.
5. What are the species called that appear first during primary succession?
6. What is the relationship between predators and prey?
7. Urban land use does not typically include .....
8. What gas does the passage refer to?
9. A pile of compost would be an example of this.
10. Another term for an herbivore:
11. Because of specific heat, what warms up faster?
12. Which definition is natural selection?
13. In the ..... trees emit oxygen and animals consume oxygen.
14. What is Critical Thinking?
15. What states that if the supply of a product declines and the demand remains the same, the price would increase?
16. The distance north or south from the equator; expressed in degrees.
17. Which of the following is one of earth's internal layers based on composition?
18. Match the level of ecological organization described by each of the statements below. The birds, insects, plants, fungi, and other organisms that reside in a nearby wetland.
19. The value of the output of all goods and services produced within a country in a year.
20. Most popular method of wastewater disposal
21. Characterized by low population growth rate, high life expectancy, and diverse industrial economies
22. Is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations
23. The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas
24. Which type of strategists would you expect to have low levels of prenatal care and a short life expectancy?
25. The most dense layer of the atmosphere is
26. What are the other two major forest biomes besides the temperate forest?
27. True or False:An organism's niche describes its use of resources and its functional role in a community.
28. Burning ..... releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
29. The amount of space an object takes up is its'
30. Background knowledge
31. Extends from the center of the core to the surface of the crust.
32. The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment
33. Convection currents in the mantle are caused by differences in temperature and (a)
34. Which country was the location of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and is now a place of scientific study on the impacts of radiation on the environment?
35. ..... is all of the living and nonliving things in a given area.
36. The part of the earth in which living things interact and life is located is called the
37. Just before you reach the top of a mountain where there is year-round ice and snow, you would expect to see
38. Interdisciplinary science means a combination of more than one science
39. A ..... is an environment where an organism lives throughout the year or for shorter periods of time to find a mate and it contains all an animal needs to survive such as food and shelter.
40. Which biome has the highest temperature?
41. You've learned in school that all mammals have fur. You see an animal you've never seen before and it has fur, so you assume it must be a mammal. This is an example of .....
42. Contains floating rafts of algae
43. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Arctic tundra?
44. What is the prime mover of surface currents?
45. Earth day is celebrated on-
46. True or False:The two reasons farmers would need to cut down trees is to plant crops or make room for livestock.
47. Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact is called
48. This is the only nutrient that is NOT cycled through the atmosphere?
49. Dory set up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. What is the dependent variable?
50. A potential source of natural short-term climate change can be seen with
51. Water from precipitation that flows over the surface of the land
52. The ..... was a binding agreement produced at Earth Summit to reduce the number of species going extinct
53. Process by which phosphorus and nitrgoen get into water and can cause excessive growht of algae is called
54. Which of the following is not a cause of pollution?
55. The first 350 m in depth of the ocean
56. Tell if the item is an abiotic factor or biotic ..... TREE
57. What is a peer review?
58. Fungi and bacteria belong to which group of biotic components of the ecosystem?
59. Choose the characteristics of tropical desert
60. Which of the following eats both producers and consumers?
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