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Environmental Sciences Quiz 137 (60 MCQs)

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1. Ensemble of knowledge, beliefs, values, and learned ways of life shared by a group of people
2. What is labeled C?
3. What do you call the variables that are kept the same in an experiment?
4. ..... The amount of a good or service people are willing to sell at a given price.
5. Select the correct statement.
6. What do you call the bacteria that helps to convert ammonia into nitrate
7. ..... are wetlands that contain trees that are able to live in places that are either permanently flooded or floored for the majority of the year.
8. Little sunlight reaches the floor of coniferous forests because
9. For the vast majority of Earth's living things, the ultimate source of energy is the .....
10. Which statement best describes how estuaries are positive environment for animals and plants
11. In terms of ecosystem services, the sustainability managed ecosystems would:
12. Which point in time involved a shift from energy resources such as animals and running water to fossil fuels?
13. Which best describes the use of a renewable resource?
14. Order these words:aphotic zone, photic zone, benthic zone
15. Which aquatic biomes have more than 1% saltwater?
16. Green spaces are
17. An organism that makes their own food and considered the gateway of energy for a food chain is considered a(n)
18. Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator. It is measured with 180 imaginary lines that form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator. These lines are known as parallels.
19. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change), 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year are released into the atmosphere due to deforestation. Until the early 1900s, deforestation was the dominant source of increased CO in the atmosphere. What has surpassed deforestation as the number one anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide emissions?
20. ..... judges actions in terms of their benefit or harm to the integrity of whole systems, including living and nonliving elements.
21. A resource that is renewed or replenished over a short period of time
22. The carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas came from
23. Which of the following is a reason that a country would have high birth rates?
24. Scientific questions should be something answered with
25. Any useful material that is found in nature:
26. Which in not an environmental function of wetlands
27. Zoning is a computerized system for storing, manipulating, and viewing geographic data.
28. The Earth is this.
29. The scientific study of interactions among organisms, populations, and communities and their interactions with their environment.
30. How does the amount of water circulating in the water cycle change?
31. What percentage of sunlight pierces the rain forest canopy?
32. Water scarcity that is is a result of poor management of the sufficient available water.
33. Which is NOT true about a good hypothesis?
34. What is fractional distillation?
35. Who studies the effects of the environment on animal life?
36. Which of the following is NOT an example of mitigation strategy?
37. The first step of the environmental policy process is to:
38. The result of burning fossil fuels
39. Botany is the animal science.
40. When did the Carboniferous Period take place?
41. Which factor is considered a human impact on climate change?
42. The leaves on the plant are turning brown.
43. One-third of the world's population is ALWAYS HUNGRY.
44. It is produced when sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen
45. Main Sequence stars can only fuse up to this element on the periodic table
46. Nearly all the nutrients present in tropical rainforests are contained in
47. A model that shows the correlation between the components of a system is a
48. Natural selection is
49. In scientific experiment, the variable(s) which is/are manipulated is/are
50. What happens when you remove a species from the beginning of a food web?
51. Which biome is characterized by extreme temperatures, low rainfall, and sparse vegetation?
52. The variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in an ecosystem
53. Which of the following best describes a symbiotic relationship?
54. Water that seeps down through the soil and is stored underground
55. Which biome is characterized by extremely cold temperatures, low rainfall, and permafrost?
56. The ozone layer protects life on Earth from .....
57. What are extinct species?
58. Which pollutant associated with coal use is known to contribute to acid rain?
59. What is the first step in the environmental policy process?
60. The term Ecosystem was coined by
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