Environmental Sciences Quiz 65 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of hazardous waste?
2. Forests stans established by planting and seeding, or both, in the process of afforestation or reforestation
3. Transform faults tend to have ..... earthquakes.
4. Water that trickles down through the ground and collects is
5. Where would fossilized evidence of unicellular organisms most likely be found?
6. Which of the following statements about greenways is true?
7. Succession that begins in an area that previously did not support life.
8. Statistics are not used by scientists to
9. Which of the following is not a strategy of source reduction?
10. Which forest ecosystem has all four seasons?
11. Which term describes the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure?
12. Which biome has the lowest biodiversity on Earth?
13. Habitat fragmentation is caused by ..... factors
14. What is found in the cell membrane that acts as passage ways for materials to enter the cell?
15. Examples of nondegradable pollutants:
16. True or False:All of the radiation from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth
17. Which of the following are considered lower plants?
18. The water cycle has
19. Coal is formed when
20. One prediction regarding a possible sixth mass extinction is that .....
21. Sprawling development has lead to ..... obesity and high blood pressure.
22. Nuclear fusion promises to be a virtually limitless supply of energy. However at present, it is not used to produce any electricity at all, because:
23. What is renewable energy?
24. Any species that is likely to become endangered if it is not protected
25. The Earth's coldest and harshest biome is the ..... ?
26. We should not love and obey my parents.
27. Water can dissolve most anything-it is considered to be the universal
28. What is the portion of surface runoff that we can generally count on as a stable source of freshwater?
29. This organelle, which is found in plants, converts light energy into sugar.
30. A ..... is any process or activity through which an element is released into the atmosphere.
31. Things that move and do their work on their own are called
32. Boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena outside the tropics
33. Which of the following food chains correctly represents energy transfer?
34. Choose the correct answer to fill in the missing content in the concept below? ".....is an economy that aims to improve human life and social assets while focusing on minimizing environmental hazards. environment and resource scarcity"
35. In which layer of the atmosphere does weather take place?
36. At the very beginning of an aquarium set-up which of these levels will be the highest at least until the nirtosonoma and nitrobactor bacteria begin to do their thing?
37. Which side of the road should we walk on?
38. What are "holes" in the ozone layer?
39. How does the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect climate?
40. What is the average weather for a particular time and region called?
41. An atmospheric layer of a specific (exact) gas provides (gives) shielding (protection) from harmful ultraviolet light from the Sun, allowing life to thrive (live) on Earth. What gas makes up this layer?
42. What is the correct term for rising water vapor meeting colder air and turning back into water droplets?
43. True or False:In the last several hundred years, both human population and natural resource consumption have risen dramatically.
44. This electricity source has very few CO2 emissions.
45. Asbestos scars and cuts the .....
46. In this branch of government, complaints are heard from businesses and individuals who are challenging laws they feel infringe on their rights?
47. An inference is .....
48. What type of power plant uses the potential energy of water trapped behind a dam?
49. Activities that can prevent land erosion includes .....
50. When you decide whether or not the data supports the hypothesis, you are
51. This process releases energy.
52. The chemical Equation H2O represents which molecule?
53. Excess carbon gases released into the atmosphere cause additional radiation to be retained and Earth's average temperature to increase. This phenomenon is known as
54. What is the main cause for global wind patterns?
55. What do we call the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required (1) to provide the raw materials and the individual or population consumes and (2) to dispose of or recycle the waste the individual or population produces?
56. The basic units of matter are called
57. What is a variable in an experiment?
58. What would happen if we did not have the greenhouse effect?
59. Substance that cannot be broken into simpler substances
60. 🌱🚗 Let's dive into an eco-friendly challenge! B4.2Which method is the champion of using biomass energy in our transport sector?