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Environmental Sciences Quiz 16 (60 MCQs)

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1. Climate in a region is
2. What is an effect of global warming?
3. What is the number of individuals in an area called?
4. An oligotrophic lake tends to have relatively low levels of nutrients.
5. Which of the following is not considered a greenhouse gas?
6. Field of study involving the physical, biological, and social sciences.
7. Where is the least amount of energy in an energy pyramid?
8. What nutrient causes algal blooms in the ocean?
9. Acid rain forming from pollutants in the air radicalizing is an example of what?
10. What is a Sanitary Sewer?
11. Fish, dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and kelp live here. What biome am I?
12. Which of the following contains the ozone layer?
13. Earth's magnetosphere is not uniformly shaped. It is compressed on the side facing the Sun and has a long tail extending away from the Sun. Which phenomenon is responsible for this shape?
14. .... is a type of soil with a high content of dead organic matter (mainly plants) and is also known as "turf."
15. Energy transfer that works best in solids
16. Which of the following is a result of El Nino?
17. The excessive use of a species that has economic value.
18. The study of the chemistry of living things.
19. Which country or region is coal-rich and oil-poor?
20. An area has an average daily temperature of 20$^\circ$F and an average annual rainfall of 3 centimeters. Which type of climate is this area most likely to be?
21. Aquaponics is the combination of ..... and .....
22. ..... is a naturally occurring substance of use to humans that can be potentially be extracted.
23. Which of the following is a renewable energy source?
24. Which types of rocks underneath a house can be a source of radon?
25. In a hypothesis, what variable comes after the word THEN?
26. Watersheds can be thought of like a 'sponge'
27. Humans burn fossil fuels and wood, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This carbon dioxide is then absorbed by trees for photosynthesis. These processes are contributory to which chemical cycle?
28. Which part of the water cycle best describes when the sun heats the water?
29. Water molecules are composed of
30. Interactions among populations in a community. The community's physical surroundings or abiotic factors
31. Consumers which eat only producers are ....., consumers which eat only other consumers are ....., and consumers which eat both are .....
32. Flowing network of surface water
33. Which of the following statement about salt in the oceans is true?
34. What major and potentially catastrophic events can be predicted to occur in the Northern Hemisphere between the months of June and November?
35. What term describes the variety of ecosystems within a given region?
36. The leading cause of deforestation is
37. An open, peaceful violation of a law to protect its alleged injustice.
38. About ..... of Earth's tropical rain forests have been destroyed by agriculture and .....
39. What is similar about the paths that energy took through the ecosystem?
40. Which layer is liquid?
41. What is the measurement of the substances in water besides water molecules?
42. If you visited a savanna, you would likely see
43. Which is true of denitrification?
44. Phosphorous is needed in organisms for the production of
45. High biodiversity is important because .....
46. The movement of the ..... causes large plates of the lithosphere to move
47. Why is it important that pesticides break down into harmless materials?
48. Industrial water use includes which of the following activities?
49. Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site; an example is pollution that reaches a body of water from streets and storm sewers
50. Type of species that is not native to an area, but thrives due to a lack of limiting resources.
51. Which of the following is NOT a natural resource?
52. Doubling time is the time required for a population to double in size
53. Theodore Roosevelt was a famous proponent of .....
54. HEADQUARTER OF UNEP
55. What is the purpose of legislation in managing atmospheric pollution?
56. Ellen grabs a topsoil sample in her hand. She rolls it into a ball. The soil feels gritty and the ball falls apart. What part of the topsoil most likely made the topsoil feel gritty?
57. Inorganic resources include:
58. The "lesson" of Easter Island was that:
59. Even though it is cold, Antartica is a desert biome?
60. A process in a cell that uses glucose and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy is called
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