Environmental Sciences Quiz 392 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are the goals of forest management?
2. ..... % is freshwater on this earth.
3. This cycle is contributing to global climate change
4. As altitude increases, air pressure.....
5. Big and strong plants are called .....
6. Living things get what they need from the ..... in which they live.
7. An organisms that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms.
8. How do heterotrophs get the Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus for their cells?
9. Temperature and pressure ..... as you move towards the center of the Earth.
10. Whose home was the early Philadelphia?
11. Which of the following is a renewable and non-renewable source of valuables available for human use?
12. ..... is made up of the facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community.
13. In which aquatic zone would you be likely to find cattails and reeds?
14. A reintroduced population of wolves in a national park is 90 percent grey and 10 percent black, consistent with the wolf population in other regions. After several generations in isolation, the national park's wolf population is 60 percent grey and 40 percent black. The wolf population has likely experienced
15. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
16. A role played by an organism in an ecosystem is known at its
17. A sudden fall of a lot of earth or rocks down a hill
18. NO.14 When the surface soil is washed away through excessive rains and floods, it is called:
19. Atmospheric greenhouse gases help heat the atmosphere by
20. What are the potential threats to waterfowl populations and their habitats?