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Environmental Sciences Quiz 43 (60 MCQs)

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1. All organisms that swim actively in open water, independent of currents are called
2. Tropical Rainforest and Tropical Savanna biomes are similar in ....., but differ in that .....
3. 6CO2 + 6H2O textregistered C6H12O6 + 6O2 This chemical equation describes:
4. What are three things that are needed for a plant to do photosynthesis?
5. The vast grasslands that once covered the middle of North America have mainly been replaced by
6. The Healthy Forests Restoration Act
7. Tetrapods ended with five front and back
8. EPAs primary goals include:
9. A tree farm planting plan guides a landowner who
10. Which of these are part of the biosphere?
11. What are some environmental factors to which plants respond?
12. Consists the part of Earth in which living and nonliving things interact
13. A method called ..... in which they compare what they will sacrifice and gain by a specific action.
14. Acid rain forms these primary pollutants
15. Methane is a far more active ..... than carbon dioxide, but also one which is much less abundant in the atmosphere.
16. Clouds are formed from
17. A farmer chooses plants to breed based on specific desirable characteristics, like bigger fruit. He breeds them together so that this characteristic becomes more popular in future generations. This is an example of .....
18. What layer is the thickest layer of the Earth making up two-thirds (2/3) of its mass from hot molten rock (magma) that flows like road tar?
19. Large bodies of water do not quickly fluctuate in temperature. Why?
20. Which of the following is the largest desert in the world
21. What was the major event in human history that led to increases in human life spans, health, and population?
22. A mixture of smoke and fog
23. A mineral is a ....., naturally occuring solid that has its own regular arrangement of particles in it.
24. Earth is covered by hundreds of types of ecosystems which are grouped by areas that have distinctive climates and organisms called .....
25. Select the correct order for the water treatment process.
26. What tells how fast a given population grows?
27. Are located in a belt around the Earth near the equator.
28. The Amazon Rainforest is a good example of this because many different species live there.
29. In Madagascar, several species of lemur eat bamboo, but each species specializes in one part of the bamboo-one species eats mature bamboo stalks, one species eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves. This is an example of
30. Which best explains how convection affects the atmosphere?
31. Secondary succession (think soil) forms after a catastrophic event like a forest fire and has a ..... growth rate than primary succession because soil already exists.
32. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the good ozone layer?
33. The layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom to top are
34. Examples of Non-renewable resouces
35. Shrubs, squirrels, and trees interacting in a forest is considered a(n)
36. Which of these would be included in the niche of a Tiger?
37. Which of the following is an ecosystem?
38. How long you sleep affects your test score. Identify the dependent variable.
39. Aquifer:groundwater::
40. Spinach is ..... of a plant.
41. Describes the chemical, physical and biological attributes of water as it is fit for drinking, fishing, swimming, farming, etc
42. Levels of global trash will continue to ..... if we don't act now to ..... the amount of garbage we create every year.
43. Define hazardous waste
44. An example of an ecosystem is .....
45. Prescribed Burns are good for ecosystems
46. The impact that you have on the Earth, based off of the resources you use is
47. Which is the best example of a point source pollution?
48. Describes the relationship between an item's availability and its value
49. Latitude is the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
50. If an animal is nearly extinct, it is .....
51. The relationship that exists when athlete's foot fungus grows on a human is an example of .....
52. Body of air surrounding our planet
53. How are species lost to extinction through human activities?
54. Process that causes the characteristics of a population to change in a way controlled by humans is:
55. ..... is started in Arabari Research Range in 1971-72
56. The information you collect while doing your experiment is called
57. Currently, California and 12 other states have adopted ..... mandates requiring all NEW cars sold in 2035 and beyond are zero-emission vehicles which includes battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles.
58. Sprawl increase carbon dioxide emissions by
59. Global dimming is a phenomenon whereby incoming solar energy is reflected back into space prior to hitting the Earth's surface. A non-human source of this dimming could be from
60. Which of the following does a plant NOT need to survive?
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