Environmental Sciences Quiz 193 (20 MCQs)

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1. The entire country is significant for its commitment to biodiversity conservation and eco-tourism.

Correct Answer: B) Costa Rica.

2. An ecosystem is a system consisting of all the interactions that occur between the abiotic and biotic factors of an environment.

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. What is the definition of environment?

Correct Answer: D) All living and nonliving things that interact with each other.

4. A thermal inversion is

Correct Answer: C) Like a ceiling, trapping pollutants near the ground.

5. What type of bond forms between water molecules?answer choices

Correct Answer: C) Hydrogen.

6. Ocean currents have a great effect on climate because water

Correct Answer: C) Holds large amounts of energy in the form of heat.

7. The study of the Earth's surface, interior processes, and history

Correct Answer: A) Geology.

8. Weather conditions that characterize an area

Correct Answer: C) Climate.

9. Family is not the most important need for everyone.

Correct Answer: B) False.

10. Which of the following affect a population's growth rate?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

11. Where are nitrogen-fixing bacteria found?

Correct Answer: B) Root nodules.

12. The world's second fastest-growing source of electricity after solar cells has been .....

Correct Answer: C) Wind power.

13. A legally-binding international agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions signed by developed countries in 1995.

Correct Answer: B) Kyoto Protocol.

14. Each individual person living on ..... land contributes to increasing sprawl.

Correct Answer: A) More.

15. The super continent that existed when all continents were together was named

Correct Answer: D) Pangea.

16. Wind blows from cooler areas to warmer areas.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. These are the physical parameters of water quality except

Correct Answer: D) BOD (biochemical oxygen demand).

18. The goal of environmental science is a sustainable world

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. The process of measuring the chance that an environmental hazard will cause harm is called

Correct Answer: D) Risk assessment.

20. Chemicals that have the potential to destroy the ozone; ex.) hair-spray, refrigeration, etc. (a)

Correct Answer: B) A chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).