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Environmental Sciences Quiz 141 (60 MCQs)

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1. As more and more water vapor condenses, the water droplets grow heavier and eventually will fall back to earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet
2. The number of protons and neutrons in an atom
3. Which transfer of energy most directly contributes to sea breeze?
4. Means suitable for drinking
5. Resources can be renewable or non-renewable.
6. The phenomenon of eutrophication is a manifestation of polluted pond and lake environments due to excess nutrients. Excess nutrition is mainly due to the content of which of the following ions exceeding the allowable level?
7. What is salination?
8. An ecological succession that begins in an area where no biotic community previously existed.
9. Which term describes how many natural resources a person/group use over a period of time?
10. Between May 18 and August 7, 1980, Mount Saint Helens erupted four times. What did the eruptions of Mount Saint Helens teach scientists?
11. Which type of plate boundary is associated with earthquakes?
12. True or False? Charles Darwin developed the "Theory of Evolution."
13. ABIOTIC factors in an environment are CONSTANT (always staying the same):
14. Which of the following is a source of point-pollution?
15. Scientists classify consumers into Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores based on how they meet their need for .....
16. .... after carefully, these boots will last for many years.
17. Chemicals dumped into a river from an unknown source.
18. The theory of island biogeography suggests that species richness is affected by which of the following factors? I. island distance from mainlandII. how the island is formedIII. island size
19. What has happened to resource consumption in the last several hundred years?
20. If the Earth did NOT have a liquid outer core, how would earthquake waves travel differently.
21. Who assists landowners in implementing best land use practices?
22. The facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community make up its:
23. The main reason that diagrams, tables and graphs of data are used by scientists is to-
24. What is one of the main threats to tigers?
25. Which hypothesis of the collapse of Easter Island society would imply that humans were the sole source of the decline?
26. Jan Ingenhousz discovered one of the components of photosynthesis when he observed bubbles of oxygen being released from aquatic plants. What environmental condition did the plants need to do this?
27. This layer of the earth is the thinnest part
28. ..... energies don't make pollution.
29. Summer Solstice is
30. What do you call the relationship that exists when two organisms belong in the same niche and are trying to acquire the same resources (i.e. space, food, water, etc.)?
31. Passed in 1976 to regulate solid and hazardous waste disposal
32. Earth's lithospheric plates
33. Nonmetallic minerals prized for their beauty, rarity, or durability
34. Large bodies of water help to keep nearby climates from being too hot or too cold because they .....
35. Produces proteins in all cells
36. Which of the following is the variable that is measured?
37. What is cohesion?
38. What is the average weather in an area over a long period of time?
39. What do we call characteristics of the environment that can limit population growth?
40. .... are intersections between a fresh water body and a salt water body. Ex:Where a river or stream enters an ocean.
41. Fresh water for drinking is found in all but
42. Runoff of sewage and agricultural wastes into coastal waters introduce
43. What is the primary cause of global warming?
44. What is a type of succession occurs in an abandoned farmland?
45. A key goal of environmental science is
46. True or False. Topography refers to surface characteristics of an area, such as the presence of a mountain.
47. All of the organisms living in a particular area and the physical components with which the organisms interact (both biotic and abiotic)
48. A law that set standards to minimize the surface effects of coal mining on the environment
49. Cutting down trees is always bad for the environment.
50. If 10, 000 J of energy is present at the T1 level, then what is the energy available at the T2 level?
51. How is phosphorus released into the environment?
52. This is the plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.
53. How are radioactive wastes disposed of?
54. Environmental problems can be viewed as
55. The Moon revolves around
56. A tropical biome dominated by grasses, shrubs, and small trees
57. Acid deposition forms as a result of
58. ..... are organic compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon.
59. Which of the following is the study of the relationship between organisms and their physical surroundings?
60. Evolved resistance to a pesticide is an example of
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