Environmental Sciences Quiz 436 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do open windows and fans that extract smoke provide?

Correct Answer: B) Ventilation.

2. Which of these things are you most likely to NOT find in a sustainable home?

Correct Answer: D) A Hummer (SUV) in the garage.

3. Which of the following is an example of human impact on the carbon cycle?

Correct Answer: E) All of the above.

4. Which nations use more renewable energy?

Correct Answer: A) Developed.

5. What is an example of the "Tragedy of the Commons" ?

Correct Answer: B) A classroom or kitchen after a lot of people were using it.

6. The drainage basin for an entire river takes in the watershed areas of all its .....

Correct Answer: D) Tributaries.

7. The warm temperatures and high humidity of the rain forest contributes to the rapid breakdown of organic matter

Correct Answer: B) By decomposers.

8. The major source of air pollution in India is-

Correct Answer: B) Industries & automobile exhaust.

9. Where do plankton get their food?

Correct Answer: D) Photosynthesis.

10. Which structure can form as a result of a divergent plate boundary?

Correct Answer: C) A mid-ocean ridge, due to the separation of two plates.

11. What percentage of the ocean's sea life lives in coral reefs?

Correct Answer: D) 25%.

12. To fully understand a complex environmental issue you may need to consider

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

13. Water returning from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Precipitation.

14. The energy trapped in fossil fuels came from the energy plants converted during photosynthesis. This trapped energy is

Correct Answer: C) Chemical energy.

15. A polar climate in the US?

Correct Answer: D) Alaska.

16. A species that is not native to a particular region and has no natural predators and little competition

Correct Answer: C) Invasive species.

17. Plastic is most commonly derived from ..... and takes up to 1000 years to decompose.

Correct Answer: C) Oil / petrochemicals.

18. The green coloring of a frog helps the frog hide from its enemies. This is an example of:

Correct Answer: B) Adaptation.

19. When large numbers of people in an area are hungry due to a natural disaster or war

Correct Answer: A) Famine.

20. What is the area where the ocean meets the shore called?

Correct Answer: D) Intertidal zone.