Environmental Sciences Quiz 379 (20 MCQs)

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1. Toxic water that infiltrates through a landfill and collects at the bottom.

Correct Answer: A) Leachate.

2. The deepest point of the ocean is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Challenger Deep.

3. Land used for growing and harvesting wood, and harvesting wildlife, fish, nuts, and other resources

Correct Answer: B) Forest land.

4. The release of ..... has helped destroythe ozone layer.

Correct Answer: C) CFCs.

5. The arrangement of members around a statistical population is called

Correct Answer: A) A distribution.

6. Transpiration from the forests affects the relative humidity and precipitation in a place.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

7. Risk is the ..... of a negative outcome.

Correct Answer: C) Probability.

8. When scientists formulate a testable idea about their scientific questions, they have formed a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis.

9. . What is a way that humans can help endangered species, such as the Bald Eagle, from becoming extinct

Correct Answer: B) By protecting their natural habitat.

10. What is the largest coral reef on the planet?

Correct Answer: D) Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

11. Have a definite shape and volume

Correct Answer: A) Solids.

12. Which of the following would be considered a primary consumer? Something that eats plants

Correct Answer: D) Rabbit.

13. What are the three types of fresh water ecosystems?

Correct Answer: A) Streams, ponds, wetlands.

14. Which is a difference between a tropical rainforest and a deciduous forest?

Correct Answer: C) A tropical rainforest recieves more annual precipitation than a deciduous forest.

15. Which of the following populations has a random dispersion

Correct Answer: C) Solitary snakes in a desert.

16. The smallest units that still have all of the chemical properties.

Correct Answer: D) Atoms.

17. A ..... is what you can learn about an object by using your 5 senses.

Correct Answer: A) Qualitative Observation.

18. Determine the total size of this statistical population of dwarf wedge mussels.

Correct Answer: A) 60.

19. Which of the following is not true of a deciduous tree in winter?

Correct Answer: A) Its leaves shed the snow.

20. A group of philosophy that involves the study of behaviors of good and bad, right or wrong.

Correct Answer: D) Ethics.