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Environmental Sciences Quiz 131 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is an example of a genetic sample?
2. Which of these is a decomposer in this food web?
3. Air, water, and rocks is a(n)
4. How do nuclear power-plants work?
5. ..... are abiotic and biotic factors that limit the growth of a population.
6. Leaves and paper are examples of
7. Dipterocarpus grandiflorus
8. When there is slipping along a fault line, a ..... happens soon after.
9. Experts agree that the national power transmission system would be made much more efficient if it were updated to a(n) ....., which would include automated controls and high levels of energy efficiency.
10. Trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies
11. This type of lake is formed by remnants of stock ponds, or quarry and mining operations.
12. The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves
13. Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. This keystone species restored the park's ecosystem. What is the ecological value of a keystone species?
14. How do invasive species typically impact an ecosystem?
15. The main source of energy for all life comes from .....
16. If I were a bird, what layer of the atmosphere would I fly in?
17. Water that hits land and flows into a creek, stream, or a river is best describes as
18. People like to go to Vail, Colorado to ski. Preservation of a natural area for this reason is based off of what type of value?
19. Animals that live in the trees are called .....
20. A machine that converts mechanical energy, or motion, into electrical energy
21. The Equator is warmer than the Poles because .....
22. How does N2 get into soil?
23. What is the major function of nucleic acids?
24. What happens if just one thing changes in an ecosystem?
25. An undesirable change in the natural environment that is caused by a substance that is harmful to living organisms.
26. When 1 species benefits and the other is harmed in a symbiotic relationship
27. Which of the following is a physical adaptation for the organism?
28. Industrial agriculture maximizes production and profits by using excessive amounts of chemicals pesticides, herbicides and hormones.
29. Social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world
30. Species native to a particular area
31. What are the main sources of pollution?
32. Pick the taxonomy groups with the right sequence ..... from general to specific *
33. The place where an organism lives that provides it with shelter, food and water.
34. Not consuming enough fats, carbohydrates, or protein
35. Which of the following go through the process of photosynthesis?
36. Which of the following would help forest communities to release their seeds, clear away deadwood, and encouraging new growth?
37. Organisms that make their own food by using sunlight or chemical energy to convert simple inorganic molecules into complex, energy-rich organic molecules like glucose are called
38. The energy lost between trophic levels
39. Which country releases the greatest quantity of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per capita (per person)?
40. A ..... community is a relatively stable, long lasting community that is the result of succession.
41. Which of the following is the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body?
42. Water pollution coming from different sources is an example of ..... water pollution.
43. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary area of study that deals with all of the following except:
44. The classroom has one red fire extinguisher. What kind of observation is this, qualitative, quantitative, both, or neither?
45. What are seamounts and how are they formed?
46. Why was the Lacey act significant?
47. Marine ecosystem considered not productive
48. ..... energy is constantly being formed.
49. The ..... variable is the result of an experiment, and is measured by the scientist.
50. ..... is when one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
51. Biome with grass but no trees due to fire
52. Renewable resource:nonrenewable resource::
53. Whenever matter undergoes a physical or chemical change, no atoms are created or destroyed.
54. Which point in time allowed humans to begin establishing communities?
55. In general, it is more SUSTAINABLE to use ..... resources.
56. Which is NOT an animal adaptation of the tundra?
57. If you are having an issue with your chromebook not working who do you talk to about help?
58. Plant material, manure, and wood
59. When sediment gets carried away by wind, water, ice, gravity we call this .....
60. Anything that makes natural resources dirty or unsafe to use is called?
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