Environmental Sciences Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT a mechanism of heat energy transfer through or within Earth's atmosphere?

Correct Answer: B) Condensation.

2. An example of a non-governmenal agency is

Correct Answer: D) Greenpeace.

3. Which of the following is not a downside of Euclidean zoning?

Correct Answer: B) Less job opportunities.

4. Testable idea (thought) that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

Correct Answer: D) Hypothesis.

5. Which in the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation?

Correct Answer: A) Ozone.

6. Citizens could claim 160 acres of public land. After living on it for 5 years, they could own it for $ 16.

Correct Answer: D) Homestead Act.

7. What is a source?

Correct Answer: C) A place person or thing of which something comes or can be obtained.

8. What takes longer to happen, primary succession or secondary succession?

Correct Answer: A) Primary succession.

9. Examples of renewable energy are:

Correct Answer: B) Sunlight/solar energy, wind power, energy that comes from water.

10. In temperate forests, some animals avoid the winter by going into ....., a deep, sleeplike state that an animal enters for most of the winter.

Correct Answer: C) Hibernation.

11. Chaparral plants usually survive fires because

Correct Answer: D) Of deep root systems that keep them moist during a fire.

12. Which of the following organisms would be considered a producer?

Correct Answer: A) Green plant.

13. When did cities really boom?

Correct Answer: B) The industrial revolution.

14. The group of organisms which convert light into food are called:

Correct Answer: A) Autotrophs.

15. ..... Costs-Those that are borne by someone other than the individuals who produce or consume a good or service.

Correct Answer: A) Deferred.

16. The easiest component of biodiversity to measure is

Correct Answer: C) Species diversity.

17. What is the function of the Earth's magnetic fields?

Correct Answer: D) To deflect solar radiation.

18. Which of the following are varying conditions, nutrient levels and physical components which describe soils within biomes?

Correct Answer: D) Soil characteristics.

19. Eating too many calories, especially fats and sugars

Correct Answer: D) Overnutrition.

20. Watersheds can vary in size.

Correct Answer: A) True.