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Environmental Sciences Quiz 95 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which wind system is closest to the equator?
2. Home to elks, moose, grizzly bears and lynxes
3. One group of students read a reading passage in silence and one group of students read the passage with the TV on in the background. They both took a comprehension test to see what they understood from the passage and the results were compared. Identify the dependent variable.
4. Lacking enough food to ensure good health
5. Some news stories tell about bad things that happened. They might be about fires, crimes, or deaths. Other news stories tell about good events. They might be about heroes or celebrations. They might tell about special people. Both kinds of stories are news. Yet they are very different kinds of news.
6. When a tree dies and falls down in a forest, termites and mushrooms will begin to break the tree down. termites and mushrooms are
7. Greenhouses gases .....
8. Environmental problems are often solved by
9. What are the 2 main factors that determine the types of plants that grow in a biome?
10. What gas do plants need to make their own food through photosynthesis?
11. ..... is the process by which organisms make their own food from inorganic sources.
12. Anthropocentrism
13. What are the two products of photosynthesis?
14. Clay holds too much water, and the plant's roots will rot.
15. Which is true of a tropical rainforest?
16. Process in which salt is removed from salt water, as from the oceans, rendering the water fit for drinking and cooking
17. Most of Earth s fresh water is
18. Match the Definition:These Bees are female. They do most of the work in and out of the hive, including collecting pollen, caring for the larvae, and building the hive. They are the smallest bee and can live 5-7 weeks.
19. What agricultural practice has been blamed for land erosion, contaminated soil and water, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and the decline of the family farm?
20. A rural area has
21. A material or energy source provided by nature need to survive
22. Incineration can reduce the weight of waste in landfills, but it .....
23. The difference between a predator and a parasite is that a predator
24. It has the highest specific heat capacity among any liquid
25. Increased air & water pollution are environmental impacts of urbanization
26. A blood condition that can result from lack of iron
27. The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies.
28. The area where two tectonic plates meet.
29. Timber and freshwater are considered
30. Nick wanted to see how high an ice cube would float in different temperatures of water. Identify the DEPENDENT variable-Amount of water-Height of Ice cube-Temperature the ice cube was at its highest height-Temperature of the water-Size of the ice cube
31. What happens to a population with a lack of limiting factors (predators, disease, competition, and other factors that decrease population growth).
32. Why do we use graphs in science?
33. Which type of science seeks to understand how the Earth works to determine the interactions between humans and the environment?
34. How could the exponential growth of the human population impact regions throughout the world?
35. What three factors can affect ANY population's growth rate?
36. Which of the following are renewable resources:wind, oil, natural gas, sunlight, Uranium, coal?
37. Which part of an atom is positive?
38. The bottom region of oceans and bodies of fresh
39. Any form of water that falls from clouds is called
40. Gravity is dependent on
41. Bicknell's Hoya is discovered by David Bicknell in June 1998 in .....
42. These were released in Australia to eat cane beetles, but now they are an invasive species and number in the millions.
43. Organisms that require the largest amount of energy to meet their needs are:
44. Erosion is an example of
45. A ..... is an individual living thing made up of one or many cells, that is capable of growing and reproducing.
46. Which of the following is a disadvantage of solar energy?
47. What is the definition of Reducing in environmental terms?
48. Measurements of carbon dioxide correlates fairly closely with the measurements of .....
49. Green turtles live in the ocean. People used to hunt them to make turtle soup, as well as for their meat. They also were hunted because people wanted to use their skin for leather. As a result, the green turtle population is much lower than it used to be.
50. True or false:environmentalism is a social movement dedicated to understanding how the natural world works.
51. A resource that can be replaced when needed.
52. Study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environments.
53. What would NOT be considered a source of valid scientific information?
54. This type of front can bring strong storms
55. Grabbing the handle of a hot pan
56. Which trophic level has the most organisms?
57. Occurs on tidal flats, at the mouths of streams and on shores of protected bays
58. Which is NOT a major provision of the Endangered Species Act?
59. ..... is the struggle among organisms for resources such as food, water, and space.
60. Kanawha County is in which USDA plant hardiness zone? (The lowest temperature that the area reaches on average.)
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