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Environmental Sciences Quiz 4 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is an advantage of incineration over other waste disposal methods?
2. How much waste does the average American produce per day?
3. Plants are green because of the presence of a pigment called:
4. The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forest for agriculture, settlements, or other uses
5. You should always wash your hands after a lab.
6. Define the term non‑renewable.
7. Eutrophication of a body of water is often caused by the addition of
8. This is the largest biome in the world.
9. This occurs when one or more organism uses the same resource at the same time
10. The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
11. Which layer is the thinnest?
12. This type of growth, represented with an S curve, is growth with limiting factors that bring the population near carrying capacity
13. ..... tells consumers which brands are made with processes that do not harm the environment.
14. Models used by scientists include
15. A re-creation of an event that enable an investigator to support or disprove a hypothesis.
16. The movement of deep, cold, nutrient filled water to the surface of the ocean is .....
17. "Everything an organism does and when it does it" describe an organism's
18. Most of the developing countries in the world depend on ..... for their main source of energy.
19. A diagram that shows the feeding relationships and energy flow of possible paths in which nutrients pass from organism to organism in an ecosystem.
20. If a nonrenewable resource such as oil suddenly became scarce while demand remained constant .....
21. Which process transports soil away from where it should be?
22. ..... contains a high viscosity mixture of hydrocarbons that must be heated to extract the oil.
23. During the period of human history known as the ....., factories, assembly lines and large industries dominated the many American cities. Pollution of the Air and water rose tremendously.
24. The practice of intentionally planting drought-tolerant plants to decrease a yard's water consumption
25. Which two things increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
26. From where do producers get their energy?
27. What is the broad, flat part of the leaf called?
28. What causes the spring tides?
29. Which of the following is the most important factor that determines whether an area is a desert?
30. Neem, tulsi and turmeric are.....
31. A property of water that occurs when adhesion of water molecules to a surface is stronger than cohesion between the molecules.
32. Does temperature change during a phase change?
33. Tall smoke stacks send ..... to far away countries
34. Which of the following factors could prolong the availability of fossil fuels?
35. What is overfishing?
36. What are pucca houses made from
37. Performing a test or experiment allows you to test your .....
38. When large mines are dug in the ground, the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere may be subject to changes from:
39. Environmental science has several goals:▪ Understand the ..... environment.
40. Solar energy is a ..... resource.
41. Made of skeletons of small animals
42. A nutrient whose supply limits productivity
43. What is the term for an land above an aquifer.
44. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field of study. This means that .....
45. Which of the following is correct scientific notation?
46. A type of relationship in which one species benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed is known as:
47. The major human causes of extinction today are
48. Interactions in an ecosystem result from thetransfer of matter and energy from producers toconsumers and eventually to decomposers. What are the forms of energy transfer from #1 to #4?
49. The process of excessive nutrients runoff into waterways can cause .....
50. The color of leaf is green due to the presence of
51. What is the best measurement to use when determining the width of a human hair?
52. Environmental Science does NOTinclude which of the following:
53. Why does the troposphere experience (have) the greatest amount of atmospheric pressure compared to the other atmospheric layers?
54. The first organisms to populate an area after a disaster
55. The world's top consumer of crude oil is .....
56. The combination of resources, improved transportation, and technological breakthroughs all led to the
57. Which type of rock is formed from cooled melted rock?
58. Which of the following is an example of cogeneration?
59. Has a negative charge, a positive charge, and no charge
60. Weather and Climate are directly affected by the
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