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Environmental Sciences Quiz 89 (60 MCQs)

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1. A person's ecological footprint takes into account
2. If pollution was found to be coming from the shipping yard like the image it would be considered
3. Which step of the water cycle is responsible for the formation of clouds?
4. Non-biodegradable waste cannot be broken down by nature.
5. Who among the following is a family member?
6. Forests are important because they
7. An unprecedented weather event has devastated a midwestern state with historic flooding. The professional who studies the impacts that precipitation like rain and snow have on the groundwater levels and the river levels would be:
8. Turns frozen water into water vapors-skipping the melting stage
9. Which of the following is NOT an ecosystem service?
10. The distance north or south of the equator, as measured in degrees, is called
11. ..... measures the strength of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10.
12. Where did Australia invasive rabbits come from?
13. Carbon cycles through Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere (crust). Once carbon is trapped in the lithosphere, it can be released directly into the atmosphere through?
14. Effect of latitude-The further away from the equator, the ..... the climate.
15. How closely packed the particles in a substance are.
16. Diamonds and other minerals
17. Students are being prepared for college and career readiness. Which professional can help them identify resources and occupational options while they are in high school?
18. What is the ultimate source of energy for food chains?
19. What do green building materials promote?
20. Which one of the following is not a form of abiotic resource?
21. What is the most common way for speciation to occur?
22. ..... refer to the changes in Earth's tilt, orbit and precession
23. What two factors are affecting the oceans due to climate change?
24. Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid is called
25. What is the first step in the water treatment process?
26. The process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater, brackish water, or wastewater effluent that it is an increasingly common solution to obtain fresh water for human consumption and for domestic/industrial utilization.
27. Not easily broken down in the environment:
28. Which of the following is never considered a renewable resource?
29. An example of an inexhaustible resource would be:
30. ..... are specific statements about what we would expect to observe if the hypothesis is true.
31. What were the two major disasters that occurred in the mid-20th century?
32. Which of the following is the simplest level of organization?
33. An atmospheric gas that increases when fossil fuels are burned off.
34. The discovery of fossilized coral reefs on land is evidence that
35. Water scarcity that is the result of inadequate natural water resources to supply a region's demand
36. Match The Definition:Activities that prevent the amount of pollution made by people. It can be done through consumer consumption, driving, or industrial production.
37. Cutting down a forest, only considering the monetary gain or loss, but not the value of the forest as a whole is an example of
38. Which layer of soil has only a little bit of humus?
39. When is the Antarctic ozone hole largest?
40. We have an unlimited supply of water on earth.
41. ..... any part of a system that interacts to help the system carry out specific functions.
42. A large tree forest is an example of .....
43. ..... water is salty
44. The variety of genes, species, ecosystems and ecosystem processes
45. What is symbiosis within an ecosystem?
46. Group of different populations that live in the same area
47. Waves dropping sand on the beach
48. Which of the following issues is the cause of the other environmental impacts caused by humans?
49. You are your parent's child.
50. How do the plates move along convergent boundaries?
51. A pack of wolfs hunts the rabbits in the area to the point where there are not enough rabbits to feed the wolves. The pack begins to decrease in size until the rabbit population grows again. Which type of feedback is this?
52. What is created by forming hard shells based on available minerals?
53. The process by which oil is heated to separate it into various fuels and other components with different boiling points
54. Organism that receives energy from producers
55. In some cases, mining exposes sulfur oxides to the air. When they join with water, they can form sulfuric acid. As this material moves, what kind of weathering can it cause?
56. Which of the following can change a system from being stable?
57. Choose the correct process described:A chemical combination of a carbon based fuel with oxygen that produces heat or light and releases CO2
58. Leo does an experiment to test how the type of water affects the growth of a plant. Which of the following is NOT a constant?
59. Warm, wet biome that occurs in a belt around the Earth near the equator and that contains the greatest diversity of organisms on Earth.
60. ..... Costs-Those that are ignored, not recognized, or whose effects accumulate over time, but that eventually must be paid.
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