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Environmental Sciences Quiz 17 (25 MCQs)

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1. The following animals are common to which land biome? (anaconda, gorilla, monkey, toucan bird, red-eyed tree frog, python, jaguar, three-toed sloth, anteater, macaw bird)
2. Earth is covered by hundreds of types of ecosystems which are grouped by areas that have distinctive climates and organisms called _____
3. With the _____ approach to environmental policy, a government body sets rules and threatens punishment for violations.
4. About _____ of carbon dioxide come from burning of fossil fuel (coal, gas, petroleum).
5. How do carbon emissions lead to global warming?
6. Which type of mining is associated with disturbing more land?
7. Which of the following microbe converts nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use as part of the nitrogen cycle?
8. In this stage of human population people grew their own food, bred animals and plants.
9. The solar constant is the encrgy that crosses each square metre at the top of the atmosphere per.
10. Which type of environmental scientist is likely to study methods of water conservation and decontamination?
11. Which of the organisms below is likely to be in the bottom trophic level of a food chain?
12. Hearing loss is caused by noise above
13. Ecosystem is the major structural and functional unit of.
14. In 1870, the first national park established to protect and preserve the land for future generations was
15. Global population is projected to be about _____ in 2050
16. Discarded electronic devices are considered hazardous waste because they
17. When a resource is being used more quickly than it is being replaced this is what kind of situation?
18. The most populous country in the world
19. The size of an earthquake is determined by how much _____ is released.
20. This type of erosion occurs when water gets into the cracks in our road freezes, expands and breaks up the road creating potholes?
21. Define the following:all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
22. What are the 3P's of sustainability?
23. What type of orbit does the Earth have? This was proven by astronomer Johannes Kepler.
24. Of the billions of stars in our galaxy, why is the Sun the only star in the galaxy that supplies energy to Earth?
25. What is Earth's outermost system?
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