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Environmental Sciences Quiz 47 (60 MCQs)

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1. Summers in tundra are longer and somewhat warmer than in taiga, enabling the ground to remain warmer than in the taiga.
2. Incentive type of agreement (Cap-and-trade), enacted in 1997.
3. A world in which human populations can continue to exist indefinitely with a high standard of living and health
4. If human needs are met in a way that ensures that future generations can survive indefinitely, humans are living
5. When a population increase has a fixed percentage each year. The populations produce a J shaped curve when graphed.
6. The formal process of submitting research for examination by the scientific community
7. Which of these is NOT a primary air pollutant?
8. How are negative ions created?
9. The intermediate disturbance hpothesis states that intermediate levels of disturbance will
10. Factor that determines where aquatic organisms live
11. An interaction in which an individual of one species kills and consumes an individual of another is called
12. Which of the following is NOT an Environmental Problem?
13. A population age structure diagram that shows most individuals in a population are young depicts a
14. The largest watershed in the United States is the
15. What sphere is made up of all the rock above and below Earth's surface?
16. The maximum amount of organisms of a species that can be supported by an environment is:
17. Organelle found in all plant cells where the process of photosynthesis occurs.
18. What two factors determine the density of water in deep currents?
19. Where does excess nitrogen in water usually come from?
20. How many variable should be adjusted in an experiment?
21. In ..... class we had to dissect a frog
22. Is the following concept true or false? "The golden population structure is when the number of people aged 60 and over accounts for 10% to less than 20% of the total population."
23. Water that is not quite clean enough for drinking is called
24. What chemical is responsible for breaking up the ozone?
25. ..... proposed that theory of evolution by observing the process of natural selection.
26. Which is a positive effect of urban sprawl?
27. What is the size of the World population in 2019?
28. How can technology affect human impact on the environment?
29. Wetland dominated by non woody plants
30. Mass Extinction is best defined as .....
31. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
32. Which strategy would be most effective in preserving good air quality for future generations?
33. Concentrating solar power uses
34. Earth has seen five events of staggering proportions that killed off huge numbers of species at once. What are these called?
35. What is an organism that breaks down & absorbs dead matter so nutrients can be recycled into the soil?
36. Which of the following can be defined as the average state of the atmosphere ate any given place?
37. As temperatures on Earth increase, how often are extreme heat days (2-3 days over 90 degrees with high humidity)anticipated to occur?
38. Any organism that must eat other organisms in order to survive.
39. Earth's precipitation pattern is mainly determined by the pattern of
40. Position with respect to the equator, measuredin degrees north or south
41. All carbohydrates are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. In what ratio are they in?(expressed as carbon:hydrogen:oxygen)
42. The fact that organisms are adapted to survive in particular environments helps to explain why
43. Pollutants form once they are in the atmosphere through chemical reactions with water vapor or other atmosphere gases
44. The pattern of water moving between Earth and the atmosphere.
45. Ecocentric pholosophy
46. What is the very next thing that happens after fast growth of plants in eutrophication?
47. How do warm-water currents affect the coastal areas along which they flow?
48. When water changes from a liquid to a solid it is known as .....
49. In Australia the farmers had a problem with beetles eating the sugar cane. So they introduced the cane toad to control that population. Instead of eating the beetles, they ate the source of food and other organisms. What would be a possible consequence of this?
50. Which of the following is not an example of an omnivore?
51. The cyclic movement of phosphorus in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment.
52. The climate becomes colder as you move up the mountain. What are the causes for this?
53. As you travel from the North Pole toward the equator, you would expect to see
54. True or False:Euclidean zoning is a separation of land use by type into specific areas of a city.
55. As altitude increases, what happens to temperature?
56. Forest fires are very bad for the environment. We should do all that we can do to prevent them.
57. Oil, natural gas, and coal are called ..... resources because they are not easy to replace.
58. What kind of weather is usually associated with a high pressure system?
59. Volcanoes occur at tectonic plate boundaries that are
60. In the western United States, at the southern edge of their range, moose are sometimes so severely infested with ticks that they die. The tick/moose relationship is best described as
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