Environmental Sciences Quiz 27 (60 MCQs)

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1. Biomass (including biodiesel)
2. A dense positively charged sub atomic particle is called a
3. "Energy Star, " "USDA Organic, " and "Fair Trade Certified" are all examples of
4. Summarize a major cause of permanent habitat destruction due to human impact.
5. Emma is studying the water quality in the Puget sound, her study includes many variables. Which example is a quantitative data example?
6. Based on the Topographic Map, what is the contour interval?
7. Arrangement in which a government or private conservation organization pays a government or private landowner in another nation for agreeing to preserve natural resources
8. A dry grassland found in coastal areas.
9. Ecological Footprint is measured in:
10. Maps and charts are examples of
11. If a country has an Ecological Deficit that mean it
12. The united states uses which percentage of the world's fossil fuels?
13. Multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, no cell wall
14. Author of the book Silent Spring and considered the mother of the environmental movement.
15. Who is most at risk of negative health effects from air pollution?
16. What causes the low and high tides in the ocean?
17. Requires a vacuum
18. If, brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys are the Internal organs, then; eyes, nose, ear's, skin, and tongue, are?
19. What do you call the measure of the materials used and needed to dispose of waste for an individual or community?
20. A hypothesis is a what
21. It is the policy governing the water quality management in the Philippines.
22. Which of the following is mutualism?
23. An example of a nonrenewable resource is
24. The lower thermosphere:
25. The surface of the land where water enters an aquifer is called
26. In an experiment, the factor that is measured (the result) is the .
27. What do we call the movement around the sun, which takes 365 days.
28. A carnivore is an .....
29. What two biomes get less than 10 inches of rainfall per year?
30. There is more fresh water on Earth than salt water.
31. Which process involves conversion of light energy to chemical energy
32. A consumer that eats only producers is called a(n)
33. Industrialized agriculture is often referred to as "high input" because it requires a great deal of:
34. C6H12O6 + 6O2 $\rightarrow$ 6CO2 + 6H2O is known as:
35. Environmental Science is the study of how the natural world ..... and how humans interact with it.
36. What is the best pro about renewable resources?
37. Controlling animals and plants for humans to use is known as .....
38. Estuaries are very productive ecosystems because they receive fresh nutrients from
39. After measuring the height in an experiment, what would be the next step the scientists would do?
40. Another term for acid rain is
41. .... to hurt his feelings, I avoided the question.
42. Animals that live in the desert
43. A non-renewable resource CANNOT be readily replaced by natural means at a pace quick enough to keep up with consumption.
44. Areas that have soil layers are in ..... succession
45. Golden crowned-flying fox Acedoron jubatosis one of the heaviest bat in the world, declared as CRITICALLY endangered bat species. Recently recorded in Malones, Dalaguete roosting in a tree together with 3 other species of fruit bat. It is locally called?
46. Normal precipitation has a pH of about 5.6. What pH might acid precipitation have?
47. What is responsible for holding heat on Earth?
48. How does the Philippines benefit from the Pacific Ring of Fire?
49. Which is NOT a factor of demand?
50. The primary cause of invasive species introduction is
51. Formed from dead trees and plants
52. In a given ecosystem, producers convert solar energy into 15, 000kcal of chemical energy stored in organic compounds. Which of the following is the most likely amount of energy available to secondary consumers?
53. Which layer of the Earth is the hottest?
54. One of my fish has a white fuzzy patch growing on his side. I looked in my fish books, and I think it is a fungus. I put some medicine in the water, and one week later he was fine and the fungus was gone. What was the dependent variable?
55. What is the ultimate source of energy for the water cycle?
56. The idea that resources that are not regulated well will eventually be used up is called
57. Landslides can happen both by nature and human activities. The natural cause of landslide is .....
58. Chlorofluorocarbon molecules are environmentally significant because
59. If we don't look after resources, we will have .....
60. Fixation is associated with