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Environmental Sciences Quiz 154 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which biome is most common in GA?
2. True or False:The USA used to send much of their recycling to China where Chinese companies would recycle it. Now the Chinese government has stopped accepting recycling, which causes a lot of recyclable products to not be recycled, and instead end up in landfills.
3. During a temperature inversion .....,
4. This type of cost includes not just the buyer and seller, but other people as well.
5. What is the climate of an area?
6. Environmental science:biology::
7. Who who harvests trees for a living?
8. What type of heterotroph eats dead and decaying organisms?
9. Sustainability is-
10. Local winds blow over:
11. Plate moments, volcanic eruption, faulting and folding leads to
12. Which of the following processes is the loss of water from the leaves of plant?
13. Originally, how did people get their resources
14. Which air pollutant scars the lungs
15. The biosphere is made up of many different ecosystems
16. What classifies a species as endangered?
17. Industrial food production includes
18. Which of the following describes the geosphere?
19. Aside from increasing energy efficiency, what energy resource has the highest net energy ratio for space heating?
20. A scientist hypothesizes the the temperature at which an alligator's egg is incubated will determine whether the alligator will be male or female. The dependent variable is
21. The neutral charged particle of an atom
22. Environmental problems can occur on which of the following scales?
23. The process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are similar in that they both
24. Energy efficiency is
25. Tropical rain forests have average temperatures ranging from 70 to 85$^\circ$F and precipitation ranging from 80 to 400 inches. These are characteristics of this biome's
26. True or False The inner core is as hot as the sun.
27. Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are called .....
28. Which 2 kingdoms has organisms that are all multicellular and eukaryotes?
29. The relationship between a bird building it's nest and the tree
30. Which of the following is an autotroph?
31. Which of the following pH measurements of rainwater would indicate acid precipitation?
32. The open surface waters in a lake, away from the shore are called
33. Which mining law governs the leasing of public lands for mining of fossil fuels, phosphates, sodium, and sulfur?
34. What is one negative consequence of overfishing?
35. Energy within the food web all started off where?
36. Conflict between short-term interests of individualsand long-term welfare of society
37. Plants would be an example of which of the following?
38. Heat flowing from warmer to colder due to physical contact is called
39. "When an ecosystem is disrupted organisms cannot thrive",
40. Science or Pseudoscience:Changing the data so that it supports my prediction.
41. Which process within the water cycle occurs just as clouds begin to form in the atmosphere?
42. Where would you expect to find the greatest number of species?
43. Full-cost pricing is a great example of which factor of sustainability?
44. The most abundant dissolved elements in the ..... are sodium and chlorine.
45. In the logistic growth model, If population size equals the carrying capacity, the population growth rate will be zero.
46. Which of the following adaptations are used by animals of the Arctic tundra?
47. Southeast Asian flying foxes are responsible for pollinating durian tree flowers and spreading durian seeds. Durian trees and fruit are critical for the survival of many species and a decline in the flying fox population would be devastating to the local ecology. Flying foxes can be considered
48. An invasive species are living things
49. What is one human action that may have caused Acid Rain?
50. The distance north or south of the equator is called .....
51. Because people are packed densely together in cities, ..... land outside cities is left undeveloped.
52. What is a major advantage that alternate energy has over fossil fuels?
53. Reduced biodiversity, or variety of species found in a particular habitat or ecosystem. Elevated rates of extinction cause this.
54. Which is a concern we should have about nuclear power?
55. Snow acts as an insulating blanket in the rain forest.
56. Koalas eat eucalyptus. What happens if all the eucalyptus dies?
57. Robert Brown observed Brownian motion in?
58. Dredging stream beds may be an effective technique for mining
59. Flexible layer of the mantle that flows slowly, allowing plates above it to move
60. Environmental studies is defined as the branch that deals with the:
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