Environmental Sciences Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the end result of eutrophication?
2. While hiking up a steep trail in the Adironack Mountains of New York State, a hiker first passes through a deciduous forest and then through an area of evergreen trees.The transition from one biome to another along trail is most similar to the transition of biomes that occurs with increasing .....
3. Human activity adds CO2 to the atmosphere through all of these EXCEPT
4. The boundary represented by $\rightarrow$ < .....
5. Oxygen is the main greenhouse gas.
6. Which two terrestrial biomes receive the least amount of precipitation?
7. How do caves form?
8. Currents at the surface of the ocean are driven
9. Why do we need to recycle?
10. What kind of energy is natural gas?
11. Problems associated with landfills
12. What are the four interacting spheres that make up the Earth?
13. The ultimate source of energy in an ecosystem in which deer eat grass and coyotes eat deer is
14. Maximum sustainable yield, ecosystem-based management, and adaptive management are three approaches to
15. This type of interaction is when both species benefit.
16. Out of all the animals listed below, which one is considered a primary consumer?
17. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred in .....,
18. When an atom loses an electron, it becomes an
19. Non-renewable energy can cause .....
20. What killed about 35, 000 people in Europe in 2003?