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Environmental Sciences Quiz 205 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is it called when scientists publish what they have learned from their experiments?
2. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
3. This consumer breaks down dead/decaying organisms and returns the nutrients back into the environment
4. An example of homeostasis includes maintaining:
5. This type of pollution inhibits people from seeing the stars and planets.
6. Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" essay addressed the conflicts associatedwith which environmental challenge?
7. The increase in earth's temperature can cause heat-related illnesses.
8. Diffusion can be affected by?
9. Which formula is used to determine the change in population size?
10. Which organelle is the powerhouse of the cell?
11. The two main factors that determine the climate of a region are ..... and .....
12. Which type of forest shows the most biodiversity?
13. Which event cannot be explained by the movement of the lithospheric plates?
14. Which of the following does not both remove and add gases to the atmosphere?
15. This region of the ocean is very cold and dark, and is found below 700 m down to the bottom of the ocean
16. What process do most producers, including plants and green algae, use to create their own food?
17. The ..... is the layer of the Earth's atmosphere closest to the surface.
18. Vegetables that are roots grow above ground
19. What is the correct order of how energy is produced in a powerplant?
20. Another name for prairie.
21. The people or animals living in a particular area.
22. What is a wetland?
23. Can you disprove a hypothesis in a single experiment?
24. Which of the following swims freely?
25. What are the goals of environmental science?
26. Which human activity would help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
27. When the parent and offspring share identical DNA, you can assume the organism reproduced .....
28. The main advantage to using natural gas as a fuel or to power industrial plants is that
29. During which period(s) were animals and plants domesticated?
30. ..... is the color of a mineral's powder left behind after rubbing it against another surface.
31. The study of mircoorganisms
32. The kind of trees that grow in a forest depend on the
33. When a reservoir releases more than it accepts, it is a ..... When a reservoir accepts more than it releases, it is a .....
34. Chemicals that break up oil in the ocean are called
35. The amount of open space between rock particles.
36. Primary succession is typically ..... than secondary succession.
37. John Muir was a .....
38. A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other
39. A broad shaped volcano built from repeated non-explosive eruptions
40. Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps .....
41. More open than the dipterocarp type and the volume of timder per unit is much less; produce woods that are highly valued for their natural beauty and durability
42. Who is called a ship of desert?
43. Assuming North is at the top of the map, what direction is the river circled in red flowing?
44. As a population ....., more food, more water, and more living space are needed.
45. Mr. Smith is changing the oil in his car. He dumps the oil down a drain that leads to a nearby river. How does this affect the animals that live in this habitat?
46. In the global carbon cycle, carbon appears primarily in coal, oil and natural gas deposits when found in
47. May be used to determine how much to spend to control pollution
48. In the carbon cycle, the only process that removes CO2 from the atmosphere is
49. Bacteria are beneficial to wastewater treatment because
50. The study of Earth's non-living systems and the planet as a whole.
51. One benefit of nuclear fission reactions is
52. In the U.S., laws enacted from the First Period of Environmental Policy (1780s to the late 1800s) reflected the perception that
53. Forests provide us with products used to create ..... goods.
54. A(n) ..... is a testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.
55. Limestone ridge found in tropical climates made of coral pieces; deposited around organic remains
56. During ..... downwelling decreases biological activity.
57. Providing information about how and where a product is made. Allows consumers to make more sustainable choices and support the businesses that produce them.
58. Less people working on farms
59. Fossil fuels are derived from which of the following sources?
60. Biologists put extra effort into protecting these because they have many species living in them.
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