Environmental Sciences Quiz 257 (20 MCQs)

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1. If one nation's laws make it impossible for another nation to sell its goods there, which organization is most likely to get involved?

Correct Answer: C) The World Trade Organization.

2. Energy from the Sun

Correct Answer: C) Renewable resource.

3. What is Environmentalism?

Correct Answer: B) Social Movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.

4. What is the largest land biome?

Correct Answer: A) Taiga.

5. The slowest changing sphere is the .....

Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere.

6. All of the rock at and below Earth's surface

Correct Answer: A) Geosphere.

7. Biome that is characterized by rolling hills, plains, and tall grasses.

Correct Answer: D) Prairie.

8. Cloud is associated with

Correct Answer: B) Water.

9. The treatment of wastewater is commonly known as

Correct Answer: C) Sewage Treatment.

10. What is the term for a type of waste that can be used again or made into something new?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

11. All parties which interact with a business are known as

Correct Answer: B) Stakeholders.

12. MOST OF THE VECHICLES RUN ON.....?

Correct Answer: A) FUEL.

13. Predict a way people can reduce the emissions that contribute to smog and the greenhouse effect.

Correct Answer: B) By taking public transportation or walking instead of driving a car.

14. Most municipal solid waste in the United States will end up in a(n) .....

Correct Answer: D) Landfill.

15. A variable that the a scientist manipulates or controls in the experiement

Correct Answer: A) Independent variable.

16. Population growth in the United States is decreasing

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. ..... expresses the environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required to live.

Correct Answer: A) Ecological footprint.

18. What is it called when CO2 is absorbed by the ocean and reacts with seawater to produce acid.

Correct Answer: B) Ocean acidification.

19. Why were Queen Elizabeth's laws to stop people from burning coal unsuccessful?

Correct Answer: A) Coal was cheap.

20. The turbine spins because of the ..... released from boiling water.

Correct Answer: A) Steam.