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Environmental Sciences Quiz 166 (60 MCQs)

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1. This is found in the topsoil and is made of decaying plants and animals.
2. This process occurs in chloroplasts.
3. The atomic mass/ mass number of an atom is?
4. Used to determine mass
5. Which statement describes a majority of the water on Earth?
6. The distance you would walk in 20 minutes is about a .....
7. What happens when acid rain hits the ground?
8. If an organism can't adapt fast enough, this might happen.
9. Which of the following activities accounts for the greatest percentage of fresh water used worldwide?
10. Which ocean current keeps Britain warmer than it otherwise would be?
11. What are the environmental problems that environmental scientists hope to solve?
12. Occurs when fertilizers, animal waste, sewage, or other substances rich in nitrogen and phosphorus flow into water ways, causing algae growth. The algae rapidly grow, absorb all of the oxygen in the water, causing other aquatic organisms to suffocate because of lack of oxgen.
13. Your aunt believes the color of your hair determines how fast you can run. She gathered 3 blond haired boys, 3 brown haired boys, and 3 red haired boys and forced them to race each other. What is the dependent variable?
14. Sunlight, water, and wind are examples of inexhaustible forms of energy. What does inexhaustible mean?
15. What is something that changes in an experiment based on the experiment being run.
16. Which of these determines the distribution of biomes on Earth's surface?
17. One of coal's negative effects is:
18. The solid part of Earth that consists of all rock, as well as the soils and loose rocks on Earth's surface
19. Most of the municipal solid waste in the United States is
20. The amount of resources that you use is called your .....
21. Gases released from power plants mix with water vapor in the sky to make .....
22. What is the City with the highest Population that is threatened by gobal sea level rises?
23. Which of the following has been shown to decrease the rate of human population growth in an area?
24. Ecolabeling.....
25. A property of water that results from the cohesion of water molecules at the surface of a body of water and creates a sort of skin on the water's surface.
26. This the liquid water component of the Earth.
27. Is the following statement true or false? "The increase in the greenhouse effect is a decrease in the concentration of greenhouse gases while the right"
28. Using energy but using it better
29. Make sure your car runs on unleaded petrol and your home uses sources of ..... energy.
30. Which of the following will lead to sustainability?
31. All of the following renewable resources are derived from the sun in some way EXCEPT
32. Buttresses found here
33. Type of insulation that was used in older buildings that can cause serious lung conditions if exposed to it.
34. Complete the following statement by selecting the correct answer: ..... is mainly consisting of carbon.
35. A region that includes tigers, eagles, lizards, fish, rabbits, and many other types of organisms would be described as having a high level of
36. What are examples of physical hazards?
37. Keep the tap open while brushing you teeth.
38. Wind powered electricity is less expensive than coal driven electricity
39. Cebu Small Worm Skink Brachymeles cebuensisEndemic skink species found in Cebu collected by Brown and Rabor (1997) in the localities of Tapal, Mantalongon, Barili, and in Buhisan Forest in Cebu City. Skink species are?
40. If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would .....
41. Metal cans and plastics are examples of
42. What sphere includes only the non-living soil, rocks, and minerals that make up the land on Earth.
43. Plants show visible signs of nutrient deficiencies on their leaves.
44. How does fire suppression lead to even more fires?
45. What is a carrier that transmits an infective agent from one host to another called?
46. Both matter & energy are exchanged between a system and the surrounding environment.
47. The amount of "pore space" between soil is:
48. What percentage of the water that people use throughout the world is lost through evaporation, leaks, and inefficient use?
49. A logical statement about what will happen in an experiment
50. Which is higher quality matter?
51. ..... affect the climate through the gases and dust particles thrown into the atmosphere.
52. What percentage of energy is lost as you move up a trophic level?
53. The study of how the environment and humans affect one another is called .....
54. How humans are involved in the environment.
55. In the story of Easter Island, what was considered the commons?
56. Animal(s) which is/are active at night.
57. Has some trees and supports large herbivores
58. Giraffes, lions, zebras, hyenas, and all the other living things of the Serengeti make up a(n)
59. Some human activities release contaminants into the air that degrade its quality; this is called .....
60. Why is the increase in greenhouse gasses an issue
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