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Environmental Sciences Quiz 169 (60 MCQs)

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1. Fossil fuels make homes and buildings .....
2. The abilities to see, hear, smell, touch or taste are called
3. ..... 38-Tiny, shrimp-like animals, ....., are examples of food that many marine animals depend upon.
4. Which of the following is a list on nonrenewable resources?
5. Drinking water is in the form of .....
6. What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?
7. Convection is defined as the
8. Which of the following is a non-point source of pollution?
9. What is the healthiest combination listed?
10. What is not a role of wetlands?
11. Scientists predict increased levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere will cause .....
12. Canada and the United States signed the Canada-US Air Quality Agreement in ..... which is meant to reduce acidic emissions that flowed across the Canada-U.S. boundary.
13. Describes differences in DNA among individuals of a population or species.
14. Gives value to all living things
15. Form of oxygen with molecules made of three oxygen atoms
16. Pure water has a pH of ..... ; regular water has a pH of about ..... ; acid rain has a pH of about .....
17. The study of populations is known as
18. Which species is used to provide early warning signs to the deterioration of the health of an ecosystem?
19. Solar power is a renewable energy source.
20. Mountains form at a ..... boundary.
21. ..... involves efforts to influence an elected official into supporting a specific interest.
22. Which of the following is not a good habit?
23. What is the name of the process by which plants make their own food?
24. Water freezing and thawing in the cracks of rocks is a type of ..... that can create soil.
25. Water molecules are attracted to each other because of
26. Which of this materials is renewable:
27. A super powerful greenhouse gas that traps up to 4 times more heat in Earth's atmosphere is:
28. The narrow layer around Earth's surface in which life can exist.
29. An extreme storm with spinning air
30. What is the largest part of our body?
31. The liquid water on Earth
32. Which of the following organelles is found ONLY in Plant Cells
33. Anthropogenic climate change is a result of humans putting more ..... into the atmosphere.
34. An organism that makes its own food using sunlight is a
35. Which of the following "ecosystem services" do ecological systems provide to the environment?
36. Air is not useful to us in many ways.
37. ..... is a variable that depends on the conditions set up in the experiment. Scientists have no control over it.
38. Nitrogen gas (N 2 ), the most abundant form of nitrogen on Earth, is
39. At what type of boundary do tectonic plates slide past each other (most likely causing earthquakes)
40. How are positive ions created?
41. The return of water from the atmosphere to Earth's surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail
42. What do hot, subsurface waters contain when they are identified as hydrothermal solutions?
43. Gaseous portion of the earth
44. What part of the soil is the A-horizon?
45. Earth Day begin on what day and year?
46. Read the statement below and answer if it is a positive or negative feedback loop? Warm ocean currents such as Gulf stream are disrupted by additional fresh water input into ocean Reduced transfer of energy to poles reduces temperature at high latitudes Ice sheets reform and icebergs retreat Warm currents are re-established
47. Water with high amounts of dissolved salt.
48. The major cause of extinction is .....
49. Resources are considered to be ..... if they are able to meet the current demand without depleting the future supply. EX:using bamboo and jute instead of Oak and Teak
50. Is the following statement true or false? Vietnam's oil and gas potential is only guaranteed to be exploited for about 30 more years."
51. The ozone layer is found in the .....
52. Who moves felled trees form the cutting site to the loading area
53. Air is matter. We found that the weight of the ball increases by.5lbs each time we pumped more air into it. This shows that air has weight, one of the characteristics of matter. Which sentence is the claim?
54. Temperature decreases with height in the ..... because there is nothing but thin air.
55. The current rate of species extinction is
56. The leaking or spilling of chemicals or raw sewage into a body of water is ..... pollution.
57. Which of these is a decomposer?
58. The job of an organism within an ecosystem is also called its
59. In the next few decades to a century, it is anticipated that there will be a significant ..... of glacial ice.
60. Occurs where an ecosystem was already established.
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