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Environmental Sciences Quiz 197 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is not one of the top 10 invasive species in Iowa?
2. Which of the natural disruption time lines is the slowest?
3. Oil, coal, and natural gas are nonrenewable resources known as .....
4. Nuclear power uses ..... for fuel.
5. In which season (in the N. Hemisphere) is the CO2 at the lowest level by NATURAL processes?
6. Which things can move on their own?
7. Which of the following is a threat to forest ecosystems?
8. What is the name of the scientist who proposed the theory of evolution?
9. Choose the producer.
10. Which of the following is a valid hypothesis?
11. A small area where large numbers of livestock are raised together
12. What major event to regulate air pollution occurred in 1987?
13. Which part of your body do you use to run?
14. Which of the following is known as the "sedimentary" cycle because its reservoir is sedimentary rock?
15. What is the main focus of ecocentrism?
16. Which two taxons are used to give an organism their scientific name?
17. A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain type of plants.
18. What is the measure of distance in degrees north and south from the equator?
19. You notice that the strawberries in your garden all have tiny bitemarks in them. You hypothesize that rabbits are the culprits, so you put a wire fence around half of the strawberry patch. What is the dependent variable in this experiment?
20. Over time, growth of ..... depletes and degrades Earth's natural capital.
21. Allopatric Speciation occurs when populations become physically separated over a geographic distance
22. Organic compounds that control several body functions. e.g. A, C, K
23. Cutting steps into a hill or mountain to farm on is
24. What product does a nuclear power plant produce for its customers?
25. Jack notices a puddle of water on his way home from school. The next day the puddle is gone. What most likely happened to the puddle of water?
26. Vertebrates are to animals as angiosperms are to .....
27. Which of the following best describes the Greenhouse Effect?
28. What is the drawback to recycling materials like metals, glass, and plastics?
29. Which are the three COLD climate biomes?
30. If you are not understanding the material who do you ask?
31. The hydrosphere includes the following:
32. Majority of nitrogen fixation occurs by
33. Which of the following activities is the largest producer of primary air pollutants in the United States?
34. A resource that is made faster than it is used
35. Limestone is a sedimentary rock. During the rock cycle, limestone is changed into marble, a metamorphic rock. The processes that act on limestone and change it into marble are
36. The ability to self-correct and improve.
37. What type of consumer eats plants and animals?
38. Tabunan Risiocnemis-Alisoysuy Risiocnemis seidenschwarzi A new species of damselfly endemic in Cebu discovered along a small creek flowing out in Tabunan Forest. It was scientifically described by Dr. Matti Hamalainen and was named in honor of Dr. Franz Seidenschwarz. It is a/an?
39. What percentage of the world's water is available fro human consumption?
40. Air is warmer and less dense at the equator because the equator receives more .....
41. The following equationC6H12O6 + 6O2 gives 6CO2 + 6H2O + energyrefers to
42. The main way nitrogen is removed from the atmosphere and changed into a form plants can use is
43. This group does NOT get the change to the independent variable. This is the group that is not actually experimented on and is used as a comparison to "normal" .
44. The founder of Earth Day was a senator from which state?
45. Which of the following is the most likely to lead to acid rain?
46. Does migration make a difference for the population of Earth as a whole?
47. Family is the first school of children.
48. What can be done to solve problems related to the tragedy of the commons?
49. Why do we want to use more renewable energy sources?
50. Coastal wetlands are ecologically important because they do all of the following EXCEPT
51. . Oil refineries and gasoline stations are both sources of
52. In a hot summer day, you touch the hot concrete with your feet. The transfer of this energy from the concrete to your feet happens through-
53. Nutrient overload from agricultural runoff and sewage produces algal/bacterial(producer) overgrowth is known as what?
54. Which of the following would be considered to be prey?
55. What weather is predicted when the atmospheric pressure is falling?
56. Estuaries form where
57. Which phrase best describes diverse ecosystems?
58. An individual cannot change its ecological footprint.
59. When there are not enough plants to hold topsoil in place, water and ..... carry the topsoil away, leaving the subsoil exposed
60. Which organisms do cellular respiration?
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