Environmental Sciences Quiz 289 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the correct chemical formula for water?

Correct Answer: A) H2O.

2. Which harvest technique always results in even aged regrowth?

Correct Answer: A) Clear-cutting.

3. What is adhesion?

Correct Answer: B) Water's ability to stick to other substances.

4. Which species provides early warning signs to environment deterioration?

Correct Answer: D) Indicator.

5. The chemical Equation C6H12O6 represents which molecule?

Correct Answer: C) Glucose.

6. Which biome has 4 distinct seasons?

Correct Answer: C) Temperate forest.

7. (2005) controlling global warming by setting greenhouse gas emissions targets for developed countries

Correct Answer: A) Kyoto Protocol.

8. What is pollution that comes out of cars called?

Correct Answer: C) Emissions.

9. ..... A mathematical statement about how likely it is that something will happen.

Correct Answer: C) Probability.

10. Our most scarce resource.

Correct Answer: B) Time.

11. The unique role of an organism is called its .....

Correct Answer: C) Niche.

12. How far away you are from the average set of data is known as

Correct Answer: C) Standard Deviation.

13. Traditional farmers grow several crops on the same plot of land in a practice referred to as

Correct Answer: B) Polyculture.

14. A social movement dedicated to sustaining Earth's life-support system

Correct Answer: A) Environmentalism.

15. A known substance in the air that can cause harm to humans and the environment.

Correct Answer: B) Air pollutant.

16. What percentage of water on earth is freshwater?

Correct Answer: D) 2.5.

17. An endangered species is a

Correct Answer: B) Species that is danger of disappearing forever.

18. Each level of the food chain is called a ..... level.

Correct Answer: B) Trophic.

19. Abiotic factor is

Correct Answer: B) NOT Living.

20. Fossil fuels (CO2 emissions) contribute to which environmental issue?

Correct Answer: B) Climate change.