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Environmental Sciences Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. Examples of renewable energy are:
2. In temperate forests, some animals avoid the winter by going into ....., a deep, sleeplike state that an animal enters for most of the winter.
3. Chaparral plants usually survive fires because
4. Which of the following organisms would be considered a producer?
5. When did cities really boom?
6. The group of organisms which convert light into food are called:
7. ..... Costs-Those that are borne by someone other than the individuals who produce or consume a good or service.
8. The easiest component of biodiversity to measure is
9. What is the function of the Earth's magnetic fields?
10. Which of the following are varying conditions, nutrient levels and physical components which describe soils within biomes?
11. Eating too many calories, especially fats and sugars
12. Watersheds can vary in size.
13. A type of symbiosis in which one organism is harmed, and the other organism is helped is called:
14. What is coal made of?
15. Industrial revolution
16. Which of the following is formed by tremendous heat and pressure?
17. A condition where the oxygen in the water is depleted and creates dead zones. This can be from fertilizer, fossil fuels, etc. There are 500 of these "dead zones" all over the world
18. All of the following are resource depletion EXCEPT
19. This treaty called for reduction in CFC production.
20. What historical event lead to the beginning of the Baby Boomers?
21. Which is NOT a disadvantage of using nuclear energy?
22. This process occurs in plant cells and animal cells.
23. If pollution was found to be coming from New York-New Jersey area, it would be considered a(n) .....
24. When you eat both plants and animals, you are called a/an .....
25. How can you help prevent extinctions?
26. SUnburn occurs when your skin is exposed to harmful ..... rays
27. The process of photosynthesis is essential in the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle. Photosynthesis removes ..... from the atmosphere and produces and releases ..... into the atmosphere.
28. Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates?
29. What term describes all of the members of a species of mockingbirds that live in the same area of Tampa?
30. Most of the water on Earth can be described as
31. According to Darwin, an organism's fitness is determined by its ability to
32. Which two spheres are interacting when nitrogen from the air get converted to nitrates and nitrites in the soil?
33. A caterpillar eats some grass. A bird eats a caterpillar. A fox eats a bird. Which of the following food chains represents this series of feeding relationships?
34. An investigation found that more potatoes would be produced on a farm if the soil was fertilized more.What is a controlled variable or constant in this experiment?
35. The long term conditions of an ecosystem such as temperature and precipitation is known as .....
36. What type of transport involves water?
37. An organism's ..... is the place where it gets everything it needs to survive.
38. Compared to developing nations, developed nations have
39. Which of the following is not a deciduous tree?
40. What type of career might be influenced by environmental science's focus on reducing pollution and promoting clean technologies?
41. Practices like grazing, felling trees and hunting animals are prohibited in .....
42. What gases do volcanoes release when they erupt?
43. Suppose your friends went to the beach at noon on a warm day. They saw some black and white birds. As you are talking to you friend you think "They went swimming." . Is this an observation or an inference?
44. What book did Rachel Carson write?
45. As an environmental scientist, Mike wants to address the issue of climate change. Studying which aspect will help Mike address the issue?
46. The rain forest soil is
47. This macromolecule consists of C, H, O and provides us with energy right away
48. Number and variety of species within a given area
49. Environmental science only deals with issues on a global scale and does not address local or regional concerns.
50. Which of these properties is measured on the pH scale?
51. Water beneath the Earth's surface in sediment and rock formations is known as
52. What is the term used to describe objects that are being made into new materials?
53. Procedure used to test a hypothesis
54. What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
55. What do you call the part of the atmosphere where molecules escape into space?
56. What causes the temperature to increase in the stratosphere?
57. The pH of healthy water is ..... 0-56.5-8.59-14
58. Latitude influences climate because ..... solar energy falls on areas that are closer to equator
59. The transfer of energy that moves matter (air) with various temperatures
60. What is the first step in an environmental decision-making model?
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