Environmental Sciences Quiz 123 (20 MCQs)

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1. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary science that includes both the natural sciences and the social sciences

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

2. In the nitrogen cycle, the important work is done by .....

Correct Answer: C) Bacteria.

3. What is the MAIN threat imposed on Deciduous Forests?

Correct Answer: C) People cutting down trees.

4. Has trees with leaves that are designed to help snow fall off, green all year long.

Correct Answer: A) Taiga.

5. Acid precipitation can lead to all of the following EXCEPT .....

Correct Answer: C) An increase of aquatic biodiversity.

6. The Law of Supply and Demand describes .....

Correct Answer: D) Relationship between the availability and the worth of resources.

7. Information and measurements collected during an experiment.

Correct Answer: D) Collected data.

8. All of the members of a particular species that live in one area are called a(an)

Correct Answer: B) Population.

9. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was passed in the year .....

Correct Answer: B) 1974.

10. Found below the surface zone of the Ocean, it is between 350 m and 700 m deep.

Correct Answer: A) Thermocline.

11. What type of energy is produced from the natural movement of the wind?

Correct Answer: B) Wind.

12. How much of the Earth's water is fresh water that is available to humans (not frozen or inaccessible)?

Correct Answer: A) 1%.

13. Comes from car exhaust, leads to eye, nose, and throat irritation, and lead to ozone formation and photochemical smog

Correct Answer: B) Nitrogen oxide.

14. What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

Correct Answer: C) 1000.

15. Brazilian rubber trapper that headed a conservation initiative driven by local, forest people.

Correct Answer: B) Chico Mendes.

16. What is the most common forest ecosystem in Wisconsin?

Correct Answer: C) Temperate Forest.

17. What is the primary source of energy in an ecosystem?

Correct Answer: C) Radiant energy.

18. A pride of lions living the same area is considered a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Population.

19. Twenty-one percent of Earth's atmosphere is made up of

Correct Answer: A) Oxygen.

20. The biome that is most productive and diverse on Earth is the

Correct Answer: A) Rain forest.