Environmental Sciences Quiz 408 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do you call ONE species all living in the same place?

Correct Answer: A) Population.

2. Characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities

Correct Answer: A) Biome.

3. Marshes, swamps, and bogs are examples of

Correct Answer: B) Freshwater wetlands.

4. Another word for a living thing is a:

Correct Answer: B) Organism.

5. What is the relationship between the Gulf Stream and the global conveyor belt?

Correct Answer: D) The Gulf Stream is one segment of the global conveyor belt.

6. The more bonds a molecule has, the more .....

Correct Answer: C) Energy is stored.

7. The littoral zone of a pond or lake is:

Correct Answer: A) An area close to shore.

8. The periodic table of elements is made up of different ..... ?

Correct Answer: D) Atoms.

9. Sick-building syndrome is caused by ..... in a building.

Correct Answer: D) Indoor air pollutants.

10. The content of the soil, its depth and texture significantly influence agricultural activity

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

11. ..... is the joining of the nucleus of two atoms.

Correct Answer: C) Fusion.

12. The process that begins when another community has been partially destroyed, but not all living things or organic matter in the soil.

Correct Answer: B) Secondary Succession.

13. This micronutrient is needed for animal muscles and brains to keep functioning.

Correct Answer: A) Potassium.

14. Which of the following is not a method of disposing of hazardous waste?

Correct Answer: D) Incineration.

15. What is environmental justice?

Correct Answer: D) It is the social justice expression of environmental ethics. tagsEN.LS2.7.

16. The following are pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions of which type of energy? Radioactive waste Emissions from uranium mining

Correct Answer: D) Nuclear Energy.

17. What is an example of a genetic sample?

Correct Answer: D) A seed.

18. Which of these is a decomposer in this food web?

Correct Answer: A) Fungi.

19. Air, water, and rocks is a(n)

Correct Answer: C) Abiotic factor.

20. How do nuclear power-plants work?

Correct Answer: C) Fission.