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Environmental Sciences Quiz 33 (60 MCQs)

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1. Starting at TEN years old, this young activist has brought attention to water contamination from lead pipes in her hometown and is the youngest Women's March Youth Ambassador.
2. Chose a more holistic prospective, saying healthy ecosystems depend on all protecting all interacting parts. He argued that people should view themselves as "The land" as members of the same community and we are obligated to treat the land in an ethical manner.
3. What is the direction of flow of energy in an ecosystem?
4. Using the 'CER' writing strategy for scientific discussion and questioning, what is needed for proper use of the 'R':
5. The biosphere also known as the ecosphere is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.
6. The salinity of the ocean water is the concentration of all tje undissolved salt it contains.
7. True or False. When seawater becomes warmer, its volume decreases.
8. Why is environmental science considered an interdisciplinary field?
9. A verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or how it is organized
10. "Criteria to be considered an air pollutant" was established by which federal agency?
11. Conduct in accordance with what a person determines is right versus wrong is
12. An organims that only eats animals
13. A species that is still abundant in its natural range, but because of declining endangered in the near future is called.
14. Because environmental science encompasses so many different fields of study, itis said to be a(n) ..... science.
15. The troposphere gets colder as you go up. What is the reason for this?
16. The age of the crust at a divergent plate boundary is ..... than the crust in the center of a plate.
17. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report, "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations." What does anthropogenic mean?
18. The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere is
19. What term describes the state in which a human population can survive indefinitely?
20. Exhaust from vehicles is one of the largest forms of air pollution. What can communities do to reduce air pollution from vehicles?
21. Substances present at the start of a chemical reaction
22. True or False? National Parks are public land, meaning they belong to all of us.
23. What is a primary pollutant?
24. It is the policy and program governing the soil quality management and proper solid waste disposal in the Philippines.
25. Littlest amount of growth on forest floor
26. Which biome is home to the lion, zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, and elephant?
27. Ozone is made up of ..... oxygen atoms.
28. You are best connected to the geosphere:
29. Unregulated fishing practices leading to depletion of marine resources.
30. Hazardous waste storage container must be:
31. Which of the following would be the definition of a herbivore?
32. What type of biome would be where it is hot and lots of water
33. Chemically how does ocean water differ from freshwater
34. It is one of the key components of environmental systems in which it tackles about the all living organisms and their interactions.
35. You are selecting a new dishwasher. You do about 150 loads per year. The less efficient model uses 9 gallons per load. The more efficient model uses 6 gallons per load. How much money will be saved on water if you select the more efficient model and the price of water is $ 0.75/1000 gallons?
36. What is a plant adaptation for a temperate deciduous forest?
37. Without humans, carbon would stay in the form of fossil fuels for .....
38. Find out the sense organ which are in pairs?
39. What is a water resource that can be considered nonrenewable?
40. A branch of philosophy that involves the study of behavior-good vs. bad, right vs. wrong.
41. What do consumers use for their energy source?
42. In photosynthesis, plants use ..... to make .....
43. A wetland is an example of a(n) ..... ecosystem.
44. The scientific study of patterns of disease in a population.
45. Using a resource in ways that maintain the resource at a certain quality for a certain period of time is called
46. The leading renewable energy resource that is used to produce electricity in the world today is .....
47. The first Earth Day was made possible by modern environmentalists. Who started this movement?
48. The average temperature on Earth has increased in the last century. Which reason best explains this rise in temperature?
49. Particles in the air that are small enough to breathe in to the lungs
50. What is the end result of eutrophication?
51. While hiking up a steep trail in the Adironack Mountains of New York State, a hiker first passes through a deciduous forest and then through an area of evergreen trees.The transition from one biome to another along trail is most similar to the transition of biomes that occurs with increasing .....
52. Human activity adds CO2 to the atmosphere through all of these EXCEPT
53. The boundary represented by $\rightarrow$ < .....
54. Oxygen is the main greenhouse gas.
55. Which two terrestrial biomes receive the least amount of precipitation?
56. How do caves form?
57. Currents at the surface of the ocean are driven
58. Why do we need to recycle?
59. What kind of energy is natural gas?
60. Problems associated with landfills
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