Environmental Sciences Quiz 127 (20 MCQs)

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1. Hydraulic fracturing causes concern not only for contamination of ground water but for .....

Correct Answer: D) Causing earthquakes.

2. Ecosystem services are benefits to

Correct Answer: D) Humans.

3. Energy sources that are still in development

Correct Answer: B) Alternative energy.

4. Which term is used to refer to the many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem?

Correct Answer: A) Food web.

5. Organisms that form a mat of soil and roots that help add organic matter to prairie soils.

Correct Answer: B) Sod-forming grasses.

6. What are the 3 classifications of a desert

Correct Answer: A) Tropical, Temperate, Cold.

7. Populations with a "shallow" gene pool which lack genetic diversity are more likely to be at risk from

Correct Answer: B) Disease.

8. What do the following resources have in common:fresh water, forest products, agricultural crops

Correct Answer: A) They are renewable resources that could run out if we aren't careful.

9. Organisms that cannot manufacture the nutrients they need, thus they depend on other organisms for nutrition.

Correct Answer: B) Heterotrophs.

10. Which statement is relevant evidence?

Correct Answer: A) There are 1, 530 Lake Erie Water snakes found in Ohio.

11. The diagram shows a model that Peter made of the carbon cycle. CO₂ cycle. Which mistake did Peter make in the model?

Correct Answer: D) Animals do not breathe carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

12. Which of these Environmental Founders is credited with bringing the Preservationists and Conservationists together with a "duel approach" ?

Correct Answer: B) Aldo Leopold.

13. What is urban sprawl?

Correct Answer: C) Rapid expansion of cities and towns.

14. The variety of organisms in a given area

Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity.

15. Which of the following is renewable?

Correct Answer: C) Sunlight.

16. Two bucks fighting over a doe is which kind of relationship?

Correct Answer: B) Competition.

17. All of the following affect biodiversity only in certain locations and times, EXCEPT:

Correct Answer: C) Climate Change.

18. This nuclear accident took place in Ukraine.

Correct Answer: A) Chernobyl.

19. During the evening how does air flow near a beach?

Correct Answer: C) From the ocean to the land.

20. Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

Correct Answer: A) Groundwater.