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Environmental Sciences Quiz 82 (60 MCQs)

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1. If everybody on our planet consumed at U.S. rates, we would need ..... planet(s).
2. An underground layer of rock or soil that has connected pores, or holes, that water can pass through.
3. What gas do fossil fuels react with when burned for energy?
4. In the United States, the strength of environmental policy is constant from state to state
5. Phosphorus is important in living cells to make
6. On which layer can we find the tectonic plates?
7. Repeated measurements of a quantity can reduce the effects of
8. How can water vapor in the air return to Earth?
9. Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creation of laws to protect the environment?
10. What languages are spoken in Easter Island?
11. What is the problem with timber plantations?
12. Which part of the food chain only eats meat?
13. Select the statement that correctly identifies and describes the biome located nearest the equator.
14. Plant roots directly obtain water from
15. A Simpson's Diversity Index of 1 is (a)
16. What is the definition of sustainability?
17. Which wastes more energy?
18. Does what we do today to the environment affect those after us?
19. A place where an organism or group of organisms live and obtain food, air, water, shelter or space, or light needed to survive is called .....
20. Which of the following were voluntary international agreements to reduce greenhouse gases?
21. Organisms acquire energy that is passed from one organism to another. This is called .....
22. A whale's niche would be which of the following?
23. A method for managing pollution in which a limit is placed on emissions and businesses or countries can buy and sell emissions allowances
24. What type of natural resource can be replaced or replenished?
25. In which situation are the atmosphere and biosphere interacting?
26. When an organism's body temperature rises and falls with the temperature of the air it is called:
27. Study of how living things interact with each otherand with their nonliving environments
28. The deepest parts of the Mariana Trench is ..... km below the surface of the Ocean.
29. Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
30. Which location is known for its clear skies and low light pollution, making it suitable for astronomical observatories?
31. What are the advantages of using polyculture, or planting a mixture of crops?
32. Temperate grasslands and temperate forests can be found at the same latitudes. What determines whether these regions will be dominated by grasses or by trees?
33. Which of the following is an interdisciplinary field with environmental science?
34. Which type of energy source can be renewed in your lifetime?
35. Water's nickname because it can dissolve more substances than anything else on Earth
36. Why were all of the tilling practices such as reduced, conservation, mulch, strip, ridge, and no till, invented?
37. Thermal engery is transferred from hot places (areas of high thermal energy) to cold places (areas of low thermal energy
38. The Montreal Protocol .....
39. Plants, animals, and mountains together .....
40. Results published in ..... are the most respected in science because they have passed through a rigorous evaluation process involving feedback from multiple sources
41. The process in which plants and some other organisms use the energy in sunlight to make food.
42. A sugar or starch that living things use for energy
43. Species that are native to and found only within a limited area
44. Which is a way we can protect our environment?
45. What are the major greenhouse gases?
46. The following is NOT a step in the scientific method.
47. When water goes from vapor to clouds
48. The outermost layer of Earth that includes the crust and the upper part of the mantle
49. Accounts how much percent of water on the planet is salt
50. Biodiversity includes:
51. Which is an effect of too much nitrogen and phosphorus (such as from fertilizers) in a lake or estuary?
52. Elephant is a domestic animal.
53. The primary pollutants (sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide) react with water vapor in the atmosphere to form these two acids:
54. Embryo transfer occurs between rare species and closely related to enable a quicker population growth. Please tick an example of where this has occurred?
55. The Acanthostega short ribs could not support it on land, and it had gills. This suggests that it probably lived:
56. What is it called when carbon is always traveling from place to place and taking different forms in the process.
57. Which of the following are NONRENEWABLE sources of energy?
58. How do carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases cause Earth's atmosphere to warm?
59. Which of the following is NOT a stage of the nitrogen cycle?
60. A resource that can be easily replaced.
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