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Environmental Sciences Quiz 13 (60 MCQs)

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1. Increasing public transit is one way to get people in a metropolitan area to drive less. What is public transit?
2. The erosion of land caused by ocean waves is called .....
3. Characterized by high population growth rate, low energy use, and very low personal wealth
4. National Parks are
5. The variables you keep the same in the experiment essentially eliminating them are called .....
6. Which correctly states the flow of energy in a food chain?
7. Environmentalism is different than Environmental Science because
8. Which of these will reduce your carbon footprint?
9. Ozone molecules are made up of how many oxygen molecules?
10. The word smog comes from a mix of the word ..... and .....
11. What pollutant created a hole in the ozone layer?
12. There's a joke going around about a midget who disperses seed which one of these relates to that
13. The water that flows out of a watershed is known as .....
14. What are the 4 main agents of erosion?
15. ..... % of energy is passed on to the next level in the food chain/pyramid?
16. Which of the following statements about the biosphere is not true?
17. Check the box/es that apply. People who move from place to place; no permanent home
18. A team from an alternative energy corporation are working to design a special turbine that will run a rural area on wind power alone. Which professional could work with the engineering team to ensure that the force of wind on the blades will sufficiently turn the turbine to generate power?
19. All of the following are macromolecules EXCEPT
20. Trash from homes and businesses
21. Results in an increase of water temperature
22. When a deer dies in the forest vultures and opossums will feed on the dead body. Vultures and opossums are
23. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas
24. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is an example of
25. A new, volcanic island forms in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Hawaiian Islands. What of the following would be correct with regards to the new island?
26. An undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects humans is
27. What is the process plants use to make their own food called?
28. What is a greenhouse gas?
29. The graph shows that
30. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has made headlines because:
31. A set of written standards issued by an business to assist its employees in conducting their actions in conformity with the organization's ethical values is
32. The orderly and predictable change that takes place after a community of organisms has been removed but the soil has remained intact is
33. An attitude of 100kms above the earth's the sea level marks the begining of space where human travellers are considered astronauts.what is it called?
34. Would the disposal of products have long lasting effects on the environment?
35. Resistance to temperature change is the fact that water has
36. A local government is considering whether to build a dam. Which is an advantage of building this structure?
37. One major biotic factor that affects the health of coral reefs is/are
38. True or False. In this energy pyramid, the consumers on each level only get about 10 percent of energy that the trophic level before it has stored.
39. Which of the following is NOT a step in the nitrogen cycle?
40. ..... :allow for the intentional setting of fires with controlled boundaries under certain conditions; also known as controlled burns.
41. Which best describes the causes of a thunderstorm?
42. What is the primary cause of habitat destruction?
43. What does toxic mean?
44. Which of the following is a natural resource
45. Which of the following is the earth's largest reservoir of carbon dioxide?
46. Gasoline prices often influence how motivated U.S. buyers are to choose fuel-efficient cars.
47. During the agricultural revolution
48. Renewable energy resources produce less ..... than fossil fuels.
49. Storage sites for nuclear wastes
50. All of the different BIOTIC factors in an ecosystem.
51. Diagram showing the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
52. The reactants of this process are carbon dioxide and water.
53. In ....., heat is transferred by the currents within a fluid.
54. How is species richness measured?
55. The layer of the atmosphere containing the ionosphere and auroras is
56. What is a natural resource?
57. The tropical savanna & temperate grassland are both types of grasslands. What differentiates them is the fact that
58. Area that contains nonwoody plants, such as cattails
59. What pollutant forms when automobile emissions react with oxygen gas and ultraviolet rays?
60. What are the three types of plate boundaries?
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