Environmental Sciences Quiz 335 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do we use natural resources for?

Correct Answer: D) All of the answers.

2. A food ..... is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.

Correct Answer: A) Chain.

3. As magma and lava cools and crystallizes, what type of rock will form?

Correct Answer: C) Igneous.

4. An acid is a solution below, above, or at 7?

Correct Answer: A) Below 7.

5. ..... was the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Correct Answer: A) Chernobyl.

6. What type of land use makes up the majority of cities in the United States?

Correct Answer: A) Residential.

7. A testable prediction about a scientific investigation is a(n)

Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis.

8. What is the part of the plant that absorbs the nutrients in the soil?

Correct Answer: A) Roots.

9. Are living and nonliving things found on Earth that people need.

Correct Answer: D) Natural Resources.

10. Smart growth refers to building ..... not .....

Correct Answer: C) Up; out.

11. Layers containing spaces or pores that water can pass through

Correct Answer: A) Permeable.

12. Main GHG responsible for Global Warming is .....

Correct Answer: D) Carbon DIoxide.

13. Ways to maximize our energy resources include all of the following EXCEPT

Correct Answer: C) Reducing funding for renewable resource development.

14. Plants need food, air and water to stay healthy

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. Earth's dense center, made up of the solid inner core and the molten outer core.

Correct Answer: A) Core.

16. An important abiotic factor in a marine ecosystem is the

Correct Answer: B) Water depth.

17. Overpopulation, overconsumption, pollution, and loss of biodiversity are examples of .....

Correct Answer: A) Environmental challenges.

18. High Pressure is associated with this type of weather .....

Correct Answer: D) Fair Weather.

19. Which are examples of fungi?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

20. Which macromolecule(s) have the elements Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?

Correct Answer: B) Carbohydrates & Lipids.