Environmental Sciences Quiz 425 (20 MCQs)

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1. Substances that can eat through or dissolve metal storage tanks and equipment are called

Correct Answer: B) Corrosive.

2. A three-dimensional model you can touch

Correct Answer: D) Physical model.

3. What is an example of a non-renewable natural resource?

Correct Answer: B) Coal.

4. In 1917 an act was passed that allowed us to establish vocational agricultural courses in high schools across the US

Correct Answer: A) Smith Hughes.

5. The process in nature where organisms better suited to their environment survive and produce more offspring.

Correct Answer: A) Natural Selection.

6. Which type of mining would most likely be used if a resource is concentrated in deep pockets in ground that is safe for tunneling?

Correct Answer: A) Subsurface mining.

7. What is a relationships between an organism or population and abiotic factors

Correct Answer: A) Environmental Interactions.

8. Tectonic plates moving apart form what kind of plate boundary?

Correct Answer: A) Divergent.

9. Very large land masses are known as .....

Correct Answer: C) Continents.

10. How much is in the form of freshwater?

Correct Answer: B) 2.5%.

11. The threat to biodiversity that occurs when the homes of different species are destroyed

Correct Answer: B) Habitat destruction.

12. When a volume of air contains as much water vapor as it can at a given temperature is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Saturation point.

13. An organelle in plant and algae cells that converts energy from sunlight into chemical energy that the plant can use

Correct Answer: B) Chloroplast.

14. ..... is another word for farming.

Correct Answer: A) Agriculture.

15. Individuals living in the zone of intolerance will .....

Correct Answer: C) Die.

16. Populations of different species living in a particular place potentially interacting with each other.

Correct Answer: C) Community.

17. Out of these options, which is a pioneer species?

Correct Answer: A) Lichen.

18. Approximately what percentage of Earth's water is freshwater?

Correct Answer: C) 3%.

19. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

Correct Answer: B) Global warming.

20. The process of making nitrites and nitrates is .....

Correct Answer: C) Nitrification.