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Environmental Sciences Quiz 171 (60 MCQs)

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1. The Hawaiian Islands are a result of
2. What kind of human activities have an affect on biodiversity?
3. States that the greater the demand for a limited supply of something, the more that thing is worth.
4. Which of these types of light bulbs uses the least electricity?
5. A process by which nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, become highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to increased growth of organisms such as algae or cyanobacteria.
6. The variety of living things on Earth is called:
7. Which of the following is NOT an invasive species in Pennsylvania?
8. Natural material that can be replaced relatively quickly through natural processes
9. 78% of the world's resources are used by ..... of the world's population.
10. Which is an example of Qualitative Data:
11. The probability of an unwanted outcome is .....
12. The scientific name for water in its gas phase
13. The Venus Flytrap plant lives in soil with few nutrients. The plant absorbs nutrients by trapping insects inside its leaves.The ability of the Venus flytrap to trap insects is an example of which of the following?
14. The water cycle is not continuous.
15. Using the materials of old products to make completely new products is called .....
16. The total number of humans on Earth.
17. In nutrient cycling, what process comes after the death of any organism?
18. Natural disruptions can often be more detrimental (harmful) than anthropogenic (human-caused) disruptions.
19. All of the following are part of a carbohydrate EXCEPT
20. The services ecosystems provide that make processes we do ourselves (such as filtering water) more efficient
21. When you don't drink enough water you can become:
22. Match the definition:The relationship between two different species where each individual benefits from the other.
23. A basic law or truth that has been tested over time is a(n) .....
24. Composting is a method for recycling ..... into a rich, dark soil amendment called compost.
25. Hunter gatherers .....
26. What happens once groundwater reaches a layer of rock in the ground that it cannot pass through?
27. Which of these events during the modern environmentalism era was the result of a town constructed on a chemical waste dumpsite, and raised awareness of the problem of hazardous waste disposal?
28. Results published i ..... are the most respected in science because they have passed through a rigorous evaluation process involving feedback from multiple sources.
29. Base of marine food web
30. The melting of land ice worldwide has what impact on ocean levels?
31. The thinning of the ozone layer
32. An ecologist might study
33. Organisms and environment function as a unit in a(n) .....
34. A measure of how much useful work each unit of input energy provides.
35. The abiotic factors of an ecosystem include .....
36. State in which a human population cansurvive indefinitely
37. What causes differences in air pressure?
38. They are very friendly and make us feel happy.
39. It is the study of plants
40. Scale that ranges from 1-14
41. Non-material benefits that people gain from the ecosystem is which type of ecosystem service?
42. True or false:the control group is the part of the experiment used for a base of comparison.
43. Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 Major environmental problem?
44. Carbon Dioxide and Methane trap the sun's heat in the earth's atmosphere. We call these ..... gases.
45. Which molecule occurs most commonly in healthy air?
46. Contains the deep water of the open ocean with whales and sharks
47. Cebu tamaraw (Bubalus cebuensis) is considered as:
48. The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations include
49. Do I give extra credit in this class?
50. What is a disadvantage to hydrogen fuel?
51. In a tropical rainforest, you would expect to find
52. The best description of a GMO is .....
53. This colorful display in the night sky of the northern hemisphere is caused by ionized particles in the atmosphere.
54. An act mainstreaming climate change into governmaent policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program on climate change
55. Resources are said to be ..... when a large fraction of the resource has been used up.
56. An irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
57. Which of the following processes is not needed in hydrological cycle?
58. Some cells have long whip-like parts that help them move. What are these structures called?
59. Which revolution occurred ~10, 000 years ago?
60. Each process in the nitrogen cycle is carried out by
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