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Environmental Sciences Quiz 192 (60 MCQs)

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1. A school randomly chose ten English teachers and asked them which type of juice their students would prefer. Which reason best shows why this sample is not a good sample in this case?
2. ..... forms from the remains of plants that lived in swamps hundreds of millions of years ago were repeatedly covered with sediment and the added weight of the layers of sediment created heat and pressure to cause coal to form.
3. What is one of the most important processes that removes carbon from the atmosphere?
4. What are the atmospheric layers from closest to the Earth to farthest away?
5. What role do environmental science and technology advancements play in future career opportunities?
6. Earth is essentially a closed system with respect to .....
7. The ethic that describes the human relationship with the natural environment.
8. ..... energy comes from underground pockets of hot water.
9. Takes out sulfur dioxide out of coal smoke stacks
10. The biggest factor in determining climate is?
11. ..... rocks form when rock buried deep inside the earth change without melting or weathering
12. Lemon plant is an example of .....
13. Which of the following is why a food web is a better representation of energy transfer in ecosystems than a food chain?
14. Why is it important to reduce food waste?
15. True or False:Decreasing a population in an ecosystem will affect other populations in the ecosystem.
16. Which biome has the highest biodiversity on Earth?
17. Fremont, with a population of 300, 000 people, uses 8million Btu of energy each day. The yearly per capita energy consumption in the city is nearest to
18. While watching a nature program on TV about animals in an African savanna, Khloe realized that she was seeing a food chain in action. She saw some zebras eating grass and shrubs, and then she saw cheetahs eating other zebras. If Khloe were to draw a food chain for the environment on the nature program, to which living thing should the last arrow point?
19. Which is true of solar energy?
20. The diagram below represents factors that affect Georgia's ecosystems. An increase in human activity at X would most likely result in .....
21. The circular-shaped hole into which a supervolcano collapses during an eruption is known as a .....
22. The diagram represents Earth, showing two cities and the axis of rotation.The current temperature in City X is higher than in City Y. Based on the diagram, which statement BEST explains this temperature difference?
23. What is the most common type of pollution?
24. Overpopulation results in a shortage of water, fuel and food
25. The nitrogen cycle has three living organisms:
26. ***The use of pesticides and fertilizers must be carefully monitored because of the impact they can have on the environment. Which of the following is a possible negative effect of the use of these chemicals on the environment?
27. Anaerobic respiration.....
28. Which layer protects the Earth from UV rays?
29. Which objects will absorb the most solar radiation
30. Deep currents are stream-like movements of cold, dense water near .....
31. "Criteria Air Pollutants" were established by the .....
32. Which type of data involves descriptions that cannot be counted or measured?
33. Which career would you pursue if you wanted to spend your days digging and excavating, studying other cultures and preserving ancient artifacts?
34. Isolines connecting points of equal elevation are called
35. The amount of space a substance takes up
36. True or False:Most communities can only support up to three or four trophic levels.
37. Protects us from harmful UV rays
38. Which of the following are ways in which we can predict and measure an El l Niño or La Nina event?
39. With each transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next, about ..... of the energy is lost
40. Air pressure is lowest in which of the following places:
41. Who was the first naturalist to study evolution?
42. What is Radiation?
43. ..... such as rain, snow, and sleet is part of the water cycle.
44. The boundary responsible for mountain formation
45. Why do endangered species matter?
46. The form of in cell respiration that requires free oxygen.
47. The study of how living things interact with each other and with their non living environment?
48. Molecules are most compact in
49. Where satellites orbit.
50. Relieving a nation from repaying some of the money it owes other nations in exchange for protecting its biodiversity is called a
51. During primary succession,
52. The gas in the atmosphere that protects us from the sun is called .....
53. How did the Himalayan Mountains form?
54. ..... currents in the Earth's asthenosphere cause plate to shift at their boundaries. This movement also causes earthquakes and volcanic activity.
55. Very little commercial energy is wasted in U.S. industries because the United States is a world leader in energy efficiency.
56. The variable that responds to the conditions set up in the experiment is called the ..... variable.
57. An AC Transit bus map is an example of a
58. Solar evaporation is practical in order to obtain salt from sea water in climates where rainfall is exceeded by
59. The earth's population doubles ABOUT every .....
60. The animals you find in the deciduous forests are
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