Environmental Sciences Quiz 363 (20 MCQs)

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1. Country with very low literacy rate, low life expectancy, high unemployment.

Correct Answer: C) Least Developed.

2. In the picture, which organism is the primary producer?

Correct Answer: A) Clover and grass.

3. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth would be .....

Correct Answer: C) Uninhabitably frigid.

4. The reservoir of carbon being most affected as a direct result of human activity is the

Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere.

5. A species when the very last individual dies

Correct Answer: C) Extinct species.

6. Which organism lives in coral, making coral reefs living and dead at the same time?

Correct Answer: C) Algae.

7. When we discuss greenhouse gases what is the main one we discuss?

Correct Answer: B) Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

8. Vertebrates are organisms that have

Correct Answer: B) A backbone.

9. What is the second step in the treatment of wastewater in a septic system?

Correct Answer: B) Dense wastes sink to bottom and sludge is pumped out.

10. What is a REACTIVE method to climate change?

Correct Answer: B) Responding to the impacts of climate change after they have occurred.

11. A metallic element that can cause brain damage

Correct Answer: A) Lead.

12. The central core of very atom, containing particles called protons and neutrons, is called a(n)

Correct Answer: C) Nucleus.

13. Which of the following is NOT an example of a criteria pollutant?

Correct Answer: D) CFCs.

14. Biocentric ethics is concerned with

Correct Answer: B) Rights of nature or species equivalence.

15. During which revolution did the production of machinery allow for advances in medicine, agriculture, and other technologies?

Correct Answer: A) Industrial.

16. ..... is located in the troposphere.

Correct Answer: D) Weather.

17. Which of the Earth's atmosphere layers is home to Earth's "ozone layer"

Correct Answer: B) Stratosphere.

18. Precipitation that can carry pollutants from land into bodies of water

Correct Answer: A) Runoff.

19. Which of these layers is the largest?

Correct Answer: D) Mantle.

20. Water is cooler than usual in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Correct Answer: B) The girl.