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Environmental Sciences Quiz 153 (60 MCQs)

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1. The colour of your hair is .....
2. The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices
3. What is most likely the cause of the great changes that happen to the town in the selection from Silent Spring?
4. Which ones are consider primary air pollutants?
5. Before an explosive volcanic eruption, ..... pressure grows until it must be released.
6. In a food chain / food web, what do first level consumers eat?
7. Which one is NOT an option for decreasing air pollution caused by cars?
8. An organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by consuming another organism is called a(n)
9. Refers to the way in which neighborhoods, populated by people of color and of low income, are burdened with a disproportionate number of hazards, including toxic waste facilities, garbage dumps, pollution and foul odors that lower the quality of life
10. All of the following are considered to be advantages of nuclear energy EXCEPT
11. Which idea is not necessary in scientific understanding?
12. Which of the following is a Renewable Natural Resource?
13. Energy sources that are not easily replenished are called .....
14. Acid rain destroys many forests and corrodes many stone and metal structures. The main cause of acid rain is
15. How does the atmosphere retain thermal energy?
16. Which type of energy produces Carbon Dioxide, which can be harmful to our planet and cause pollution?
17. The temperature of the stratosphere increases (goes up) with altitude because of the presence of
18. In North America, which direction would you travel to go from a coniferous forest to a deciduous forest?
19. Increase in which gas is primarily responsible for increased global warming?
20. The energy usage per capita in Africa and Asia have grown tremendously the last 50 years. Which of these would be a good explanation of why the energy use off these continents has grown more quickly over this time period when compared to North America?
21. Why are fossils commonly found in sedimentary rocks but not in igneous rocks?
22. Mid Ocean Ridge Formation is created at this type of boundary.
23. The gasoline that is used to power cars contains what kind of energy?
24. Above the stratosphere, this is the coldest layer of the atmosphere
25. Protons are much smaller in mass than electrons.
26. What president signed the bill that turned the Clean Air Act into a law?
27. Sunlight reacts with waste gases from the burning of fossil fuels to form
28. Which is a source of sulfur dioxide found in nature?
29. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the coniferous forest?
30. Calories; referred to as a calorie in everyday usage
31. Unfenced grasslands in temperate and tropical climates that supplies forage for grazing and browsing animals
32. Our forest are carbon sinks and produce fresh oxygen
33. Which of the following directly effects the hydrologic cycle
34. Lines of ..... measure how far from the equator a place is.
35. This process takes Carbohydrates (sugars and starch) and converts into Energy and Carbon Dioxide
36. Lower birth rate
37. The agricultural and industrial revolution mainly changed:
38. Health problems related to air pollution include:
39. True or False? Carson Gordon wrote the book Silent Spring.
40. Match the Definition:A term used by scientists to describe the role a species plays in an ecosystem. It is an organism's occupation.
41. Non-living parts of the environment
42. Earth is known as a ..... system.
43. Temperature inversions work to trap pollution when
44. An area where organisms are found interacting with one another.
45. An herbivore that mainly feeds on leaves, fruits of high-growing woody plants, soft shoots and shrubs.
46. An example of weather is:
47. What is one disadvantage of using fossil fuels?
48. What is the application of ethical standards to relationships between humans and their environment?
49. Artificial Eutrophication
50. Which of the following is not a benefit of GMOs
51. All of the following are negatively impacting the marine biome except?
52. What is biomass energy?
53. What is the primary role of nitrate (NO3 ..... ) ions in the nitrogen cycle?
54. A person holding a sign during a protest against cutting down trees in a forest would be a(n)
55. What best describes the rock cycle?
56. What major entity of the U.S. government has the chief responsibility for overseeing environmental regulations?
57. It is the process wherein nitrogen is converted to ammonia
58. Who did the Moai represented?
59. This federal law enacted under Richard Nixon's administration in 1973 provided habitat protection for species that are at risk for extinction.
60. Rabbits eating grass are categorized as which trophic level?
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