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Environmental Sciences Quiz 206 (60 MCQs)

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1. What material did hunter-gatherers make their tools with?
2. How is weather measured?
3. Which of the following two gasses make up 90-98% of the gasses created by landfills?
4. What is the process in which the oceanic crust creates a ocean trench and is pushed back into the mantle?
5. Water rising and sinking as it is heated in a pot is an example of .....
6. The transfer of energy in the form of heat from a warmer object to a colder object when the objects are in direct contact.
7. A forest that has regrown after a primary forest has been cut down or disturbed
8. How do MOST invasive species get to new areas where they don't naturally belong?
9. Most trees in tropical dry forests are ..... which means they lose their leaves and stop photosynthesis during part of the year.
10. Film production creates an influx of people needing residential housing options in a community. Once land is acquired, permits are approved, and blueprints are drafted, which profession would the community rely on to build these houses and complexes?
11. If I feed Puff Puff McGuff mole crabs, then his teeth will wear down. The responding variable in this hypothesis is:
12. The depletion of the ozone layer can lead to
13. What does the acronym "GMO" stand for?
14. Which of the following refers to where an organism lives and the properties of its surroundings?
15. A ..... is used to accelerate protons in the study of subatomic particles.
16. Scientists form ..... hypotheses to answer questions.
17. When the air above is warmer than the air below, it is called a
18. A student observes the Milky Way galaxy in the night sky. Which characteristic ofthe galaxy makes it visible?
19. Marshes and swamps are the same thing.
20. What type of succession occurs when a farmer abandons his farm?
21. ..... are attached to chimneys of coal burning plants to help clean the gases before they are released
22. Polar bears have compact ears, a small tail, and thick fur to keep themselves warm. Are these examples of physical (structural) or behavioural adaptations?
23. True or False:Once you turn off an appliance or charger; it no longer uses electricity
24. Which body of water would be the most oxygen rich?
25. Why is the presence of ozone layer above the troposphere important for the survival of living things on earth?
26. SMS stand for.....
27. Much of the current environmental crisis is rooted in:
28. The measure of how easily water can flow through an aquifer.
29. Which of the following are qualitative?
30. How much of that water on Earth is in the form of salt water?
31. Why is it called the Law of Conservation of Matter/Mass?
32. Three temperature zones in the ocean
33. Is metal a renewable resource?
34. A synonym for saving energy is energy.....
35. Which is an example of an event that could lead to primary succession?
36. What are called the non-material benefits that people obtain from ecosystems called?
37. What could be a scientific solution to the problems of depletion of forest.
38. All of the following about the nitrogen cycle are true except
39. Is a Cat considered abiotic or biotic?
40. Which of the following is the approximate efficiency of energy transfer through the food chain?
41. Which type of ecosystem has zebras and giraffes?
42. The Clean Air Act is federal law that regulates levels of air pollution produced from
43. The use of non-living resources, wildlife, forests, water, etc in a manner that maintains and protects them for the common good is?
44. Highly industrialized countries with high incomes and high standards of living
45. Which of the following statements is NOT true of consumenrs?
46. What constantly circles around plants, animals, and the atmosphere?
47. Smog and other forms of pollution from urban cities can help create more carbon dioxide as well as global warming and, in turn, affect rural areas that rely on energy resources for their crops and farmland ..... also increases the concentration of carbon dioxide which scientists believe is helping increase atmospheric temperatures worldwide.
48. If a population has a growth rate of 0%, does the population increase, decrease, or stay the same?
49. The earth receives the energy from the sun by
50. A drawback to solar energy is that the sun sometimes .....
51. What type of interaction is indicated by the following description:Anemone protects clownfish and clownfish provides food for the anemone.
52. What does vegetation store?!
53. Students took a test after they had studied either in silence or with the television turned on. What is the dependent variable?
54. Which of the following impact biomes by creating conditions suitable for specified varieties of plants?
55. Human activities:habitat loss:; ..... : .....
56. What are the steps of the scientific method in the correct order?
57. All of the following can limit a populations growth except .....
58. The boundary between air masses that differs in temperature and moisture is called a(n)
59. The greater the ....., the more likely a species is to survive changes to their environment
60. Which type of coal has a higher carbon content?
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