Environmental Sciences Quiz 116 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the definition of sludge?

Correct Answer: B) Solid matter produced by sewage treatment.

2. What was the agriculture revolution?

Correct Answer: B) The growth of agriculture and the impact it had on humans.

3. Scientific Notation is made up of two number parts. The first part should be a number between 1 and 100.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. Which of the following is NOT included in the cryosphere:

Correct Answer: B) Liquid Water.

5. What are the most common sources of energy used in automobiles?

Correct Answer: B) Petroleum and diesel.

6. Which sphere is composed of all the living things?

Correct Answer: C) Biosphere.

7. Environmental science is most accurately viewed as a science

Correct Answer: B) Incorporating all the sciences, politics, economics, and social sciences.

8. How does Igneous rock form?

Correct Answer: A) It forms when magma cools and hardens.

9. All the gases surrounding Earth are known collectively as the .....

Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere.

10. What occurred in the 1700's and led to expansion in the US.

Correct Answer: B) The Industrial Revolution.

11. If I have a data table that has one column for years and one column for temperature, what would I put on the x-axis of a graph?

Correct Answer: D) Years.

12. Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.

Correct Answer: A) Surface water.

13. What happens to abiotic factors when biotic populations increase?

Correct Answer: B) Decrease.

14. Ecosystem services

Correct Answer: A) Are the processes by which life-supporting resources are produced.

15. During this period, droughts had an impact on the environment.Droughts are long periods of low rainfall.

Correct Answer: A) Agricultural revolution.

16. What effect does removing too much groundwater have on the water cycle?

Correct Answer: B) It decreases the water level of lakes.

17. M =..... km

Correct Answer: C) 1.

18. What groups of organisms are most in danger of extinction?

Correct Answer: D) Both (a) and (b).

19. In the movie "The Lorax" was was one unintended consequence of clear cutting the tuffula trees?

Correct Answer: A) The environment was destroyed.

20. The application of ethical standards to the relationship between humans and the environment.

Correct Answer: A) Environmental ethics.