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Environmental Sciences Quiz 22 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is pollution?
2. The farther a planet is from the Sun, the ..... the period of revolution.
3. How do scientist think that early atmosphere was probably formed?
4. The study of the relationship between organisms and their physical surroundings.
5. Which of the following is not involved in ecological succession?
6. Corn, wheat, and soybeans can be made into a substance called ethanol. In some places, ethanol is part of a mixture used to power cars and trucks. What type of alternative energy resource is ethanol?
7. Study of relationships between organisms and their environment
8. During evaporation, water changes from a ..... to a .....
9. Harmful substances in air, water, or soil are called
10. What is not a description of a good hypothesis
11. What forbids the U.S. government and its citizens from harming endangered or threatened species and their habitats?
12. The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar.
13. Biodiversity is NOT the variety and variability of life on Earth.
14. It is everything around us.
15. One of the most important roles of the ocean is to
16. What type of irrigation practice acts as a solution for waterlogging and salinization?
17. Which dispersion pattern is described by organisms being spaced out equally?
18. What is the arrangement of atoms in a mineral?
19. What are chaparral biomes?
20. A heat pump is a device that moves heat or cold from one place to another
21. Sturgeon were once fished to near extinction due to overfishing. They are now protected because
22. What is a good way to tell people the good about renewable resources and bad about fossil fuels?
23. The most poisonous animal in the world is .....
24. How much of the atmosphere is composed of nitrogen gas?
25. When did congress creat the National park Serves
26. Which component of soil has the lowest permeability to water?
27. Which part of your body do you use to write?
28. ..... is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun.
29. What event most affected the passage of the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969?
30. Over the past 30 years, air quality in the United States has generally .....
31. How does deforestation affect global warming?
32. What is characterized by high population growth rate and extreme poverty?
33. Humans depend on other organisms for food and water, this topic deals with the loss of species or extinctions.
34. If an energy sources is considered green, what does that mean?
35. ..... is a region in which the organisms and the physical environment form an interacting unit
36. Pollution that comes from a specific site is called
37. A main goal of the General Mining Law of 1872 was to
38. Parts of the body which are located outside and we can see them are called .....
39. Which action can humans do to help reduce the rate of global warming?
40. This biome is covered in coniferous forests.
41. The energy organisms need to live and grow first enters the ecosystem when-
42. ..... are grasslands found in Africa, South America and Austria that are spotted with occasional trees or patches of trees.
43. The information you record in an experiment is called your .....
44. What is the correct order of the sizes of the oceans starting with the largest to the smallest?
45. What types of organisms need carbon to survive?
46. Which natural events do scientists think might cause ice ages?
47. Who sells the medicines?
48. The living or once living components of an ecosytem.
49. Which of the following does NOT happen to solar energy when it reaches Earth?
50. Where are most divergent boundaries located?
51. Factor that causes population growth to decrease.
52. Which species would be most affected by the overfishing of Alaskan salmon?
53. Ascribes value to certain living things or to the biotic realm in general
54. The minimum amount of energy needed for colliding particles to react is called the
55. Which of the following is NOT an example of Freshwater?
56. What are the ingredients that power the process of cellular respiration
57. Tectonic plates are located in the lithosphere.
58. Adaptions that will help desert plants survive is obtaining and conserving water.
59. How do tectonic plates contribute to the formation of mountains?
60. The wetlands near your school absorb water to prevent the school parking lot from flooding every time it rains. What type of ecosystem service this represents?
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