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Environmental Sciences Quiz 198 (60 MCQs)

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1. The layer of the atmosphere that gets up to 2000 degrees Celsius is
2. The social movement to protect the Earth is
3. What level often has the most number of organisms in a pyramid of numbers?
4. Which is not the ingredients of Vehicular Pollution
5. Which of the following will decrease an ecosystems population?
6. Which term is used to describe low density, automobile-dependent community development that is associated with land use that has a negative impact?
7. "Chilli is spicy" which sense organ is used?
8. Solar Energy is a type of renewable energy.
9. Why are greenhouse gases so bad?
10. Examples are mushrooms and mold
11. ..... is a formal way for the researcher to get comments and criticism from the scientific community.
12. Where is the largest grasslands/savanna located
13. Which of the following statements explains why there is less energy at the top of an energy pyramid than at the bottom?
14. What is the carrying capacity of an environment?
15. Ocean pollution is primarily due to .....
16. Which factor do forest and grassland ecosystems most likely have in common?
17. Which agreement was an attempt to create a global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
18. Which of the following causes earthquakes?
19. The clouds are grey and ground is wet.
20. Which part of the body do you use to taste food?
21. The rate at which primary producers convert energy to biomass is known as ....., and is highest in the .....
22. Choose which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource.
23. Contaminated water that results when acid dissolves toxic minerals remaining in mines and in excess rocks
24. A ..... determines the watershed area and the direction of its flow based on elevation.
25. The land that water flows across or under on its way to a stream, river, or lake is called .....
26. Which of the following gases has the highest global warming potential:
27. An organism that makes its own food, autotroph.
28. How are temperature and carbon dioxide related over time?
29. Suppression of forest fires causes a decrease in ..... because some habitats require exposure to fire.
30. Which term is synonymous (means the same thing) with producer?
31. Which two countries are leaders in ethanol production (in order)?
32. Coral reefs are a type of marine ocean
33. Which one BEST describes a nonrenewable resource?
34. What trees would you find the most of in a boreal forest?
35. Weathering is a ..... phenomenon.
36. Fossil fuels and minerals are examples of
37. The rising sea level could be a consequence of
38. The Earth's climate can be influenced by a number of naturally-occurring factors. These include .....
39. Units for density are
40. The Florida worm lizard does not have legs or feet. It is about eight inches long and looks like a giant earthworm, because it is pink. It doesn't have eyes or ears, but it has a mouth that looks like other lizards' mouths. Its body is covered with scales.
41. Natural resources that are naturally replenished over months, years, or decades are called
42. A goal of Environmental Science:Understand how humans interact with the environment.
43. Why do cities and suburbs have more runoff and pollution?
44. The biome with the greatest diversity of life is:
45. A heterotroph .....
46. The major layer of the atmosphere where you can find the ozone layer
47. Liquid water is heated by the sun & rises into the atmosphere as water vapor
48. Temperature decreases as altitude increases in the Thermosphere.
49. Cleaning up an area using plants
50. Most cars on the road today are 25-30% efficient. Someone claims to have invented a car that can take the potential energy within gasoline and convert 100% of it into kinetic motion without waste. What law of thermodynamics does this violate?
51. What is the most commonly used fossil fuel?
52. The pattern of air during thermal inversion is
53. The color of a star tells us its
54. What is meant by deforestation?
55. The following are the objectives of the convention on biological diversity except
56. How can surface mining harm wildlife, such as fish, birds, and macroinvertebrates?
57. Which type of food has the largest water footprint?
58. Certain ..... in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, block heat from escaping.
59. In other places, it is very hot under the ground. These are good places for ..... energy.
60. Refers to taxes intended to promote ecologically sustainable activities via economic incentives. Such a policy can complement or avert the need for regulatory (command and control) approaches.
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