Environmental Sciences Quiz 167 (60 MCQs)

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1. What type of growth is the human population experiencing today?
2. When people began to grow crops, raise domestic animals, and live in villages
3. In 2000, the level of ammonia in a river was 63ppm. In 2004, the level was 112ppm. what is the percent increase since 2000?
4. In December 1970, EPA Agency officially opened in D.C.
5. In a negative feedback loop, each action creates a consequence that ..... the other action.
6. Pest populations that damage plants
7. Which aquatic ecosystem is adversely affected by runoff?
8. Number of organisms per unit area/volume
9. Fill in the missing phrase in the concept below: "..... is material emitted from production, business, services, living or other activities"
10. A glacier is .....
11. It is a vast desert ecosystem, important for its unique plant and animal species.
12. Sea otters eat sea urchins and prevent them from eating all of the kelp. This kelp provides food and shelter for many other organisms in the ecosystem. The sea otter can be referred to as what?
13. The Biotic factors of an ecosystem include .....
14. What kind of energy is coal?
15. Wetland that is dominated by woody plants, flood-tolerant trees and shrubs
16. Species has central role to ecosystem survival
17. Rachel's book Silent Spring is about .....
18. Consumers that only eat other animals (meat).
19. Naturally replenished over a short time like fruits and grains.
20. This young icon spent three hours every day fetching water as a young girl in Burkina Faso, where almost half the country lives without clean water. She launched a foundation in 2015, which has made water accessible to over 100, 000 people by building wells in local communities in Burkina Faso.
21. Which of the following is evaporation of water from plants?
22. How much percentage of nitrogen consist in Earth's Atmosphere?
23. Which profession would you go to if you needed legal advice related to your property plot (including trees, roads, boundary lines, deeds and surveys)?
24. When the sun warms plants, it causes water to evaporate out of the leaves through the small openings. This process is called
25. Environmental studies are multidisciplinary in nature.
26. Which of the following is NOT a factor that impacts ecological tolerance?
27. If there is excess hydrogen ions, the solution will be .....
28. Organism that eats other things for food
29. The relationship between organisms in which both species benefit.
30. Splitting a uranium atom is called-
31. Some snakes produce a powerful poison that paralyzes their prey. This poison is an example of
32. It is the study of animals
33. What are the types of water pollutants?
34. An organism that feeds on broken down materials from dead organisms
35. Scientists use statistics to
36. A linear sequence of populations or organisms linked through their food and its contained energy is called:
37. What is the part of the experiment that is left alone or "natural", and is used to compare back to?
38. The rapid growth of the human population is the core cause of the current environmental crisis.
39. Which division of plants is the most advanced:has a vascular system, reproduces with pollen, produces seeds, has flowers?
40. In which layer of the atmosphere do meteors burn up?
41. What two factors contribute to past climate life in accordance with Astronomy?
42. An ..... is defined as all of the interacting organisms that live in an environment and the abiotic parts f the environment that affect those organisms
43. Which place are kangaroos considered to be endemic?
44. To reduce your carbon footprint, you should eat food that is .....
45. ..... is the percentage of the total volume of rock that has spaces (pores).
46. An area experiences a drought, which causes the production of wheat to be less than expected. What will likely happen to the price of wheat?
47. ..... Is the use of facts and assumptions to estimate the probability of harm to people or the environment from particular environmental factors or conditions.
48. What part of the carbon cycle results in the production of coal and oil?
49. What is the third step of the scientific method?
50. Summer and winter are caused by .....
51. Parasites ..... the organism they live on.
52. A rock deep within the Earth experiences extreme temperature and pressure. After a long period of time it becomes which rock?
53. One of my fish has a white fuzzy patch growing on his side. I looked in my fish books, and I think it is a fungus. I put some medicine in the water, and one week later he was fine and the fungus was gone. What was my hypothesis?
54. Considering(A) the best application for learning English(B), my English learning application(C) crossed(D) 1 billion downloads.
55. Which of the following is NOT an renewable energy resource?
56. The layer of atmosphere closest to the Earth is called the
57. Winds in our atmosphere are created as a result of which of the following processes?
58. The mathematical discipline frequently used by scientists to analyze data is called
59. Which of the following can be caused by El Nino~?
60. What line is known to represent 23.5 degrees north latitude?