Environmental Sciences Quiz 429 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which best describes the use of a renewable resource?
2. Order these words:aphotic zone, photic zone, benthic zone
3. Which aquatic biomes have more than 1% saltwater?
4. Green spaces are
5. An organism that makes their own food and considered the gateway of energy for a food chain is considered a(n)
6. Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator. It is measured with 180 imaginary lines that form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator. These lines are known as parallels.
7. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change), 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year are released into the atmosphere due to deforestation. Until the early 1900s, deforestation was the dominant source of increased CO in the atmosphere. What has surpassed deforestation as the number one anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide emissions?
8. ..... judges actions in terms of their benefit or harm to the integrity of whole systems, including living and nonliving elements.
9. A resource that is renewed or replenished over a short period of time
10. The carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas came from
11. Which of the following is a reason that a country would have high birth rates?
12. Scientific questions should be something answered with
13. Any useful material that is found in nature:
14. Which in not an environmental function of wetlands
15. Zoning is a computerized system for storing, manipulating, and viewing geographic data.
16. The Earth is this.
17. The scientific study of interactions among organisms, populations, and communities and their interactions with their environment.
18. How does the amount of water circulating in the water cycle change?
19. What percentage of sunlight pierces the rain forest canopy?
20. Water scarcity that is is a result of poor management of the sufficient available water.