Environmental Sciences Quiz 350 (20 MCQs)

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1. A ..... ship takes you on a holiday.

Correct Answer: B) Cruise.

2. Matter with no definite volume and no definite shape is a .....

Correct Answer: C) Gas.

3. How many cells are found in Archaebacteria?

Correct Answer: A) Unicellular.

4. When the media repeats the same stories and headlines, it is bias by

Correct Answer: D) Repetition.

5. Which of the following are examples of secondary pollutants?

Correct Answer: B) Acid Rain and Ozone.

6. You can not see air around you, because it is ..... colour.

Correct Answer: B) No.

7. When organisms use sunlight to make sugar, this process is known as

Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis.

8. How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: B) Through photosynthesis.

9. A carbon footprint is the contribution of carbon by

Correct Answer: A) Humans.

10. What part of the carbon cycle releases carbon held in coal and oil deposits?

Correct Answer: B) Combustion.

11. The relationship between 2 items is

Correct Answer: D) Correlation.

12. A food chain shows

Correct Answer: C) The flow of energy through a series of organisms.

13. Identify the following as a renewable or nonrenewable resource:Chicken

Correct Answer: B) Renewable.

14. Which of the following represents a freshwater ecosystem?

Correct Answer: C) Wetlands.

15. Environmental policy addresses all of the following issues EXCEPT .....

Correct Answer: C) Natural disasters.

16. Where plates slide passed each other.

Correct Answer: C) Transform boundaries.

17. What is labeled B?

Correct Answer: C) Condensation.

18. Free-swimming organisms

Correct Answer: C) Nekton.

19. Why do peppered moths tend to be the same color as the trees on which they live?

Correct Answer: D) It makes the moths harder to see.

20. It is the capacity of the earth and human beings to survive to conditions in the next generation.

Correct Answer: A) Sustainability.