Environmental Sciences Quiz 443 (20 MCQs)

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1. .... are intersections between a fresh water body and a salt water body. Ex:Where a river or stream enters an ocean.

Correct Answer: B) Estuaries.

2. Fresh water for drinking is found in all but

Correct Answer: D) Oceans.

3. Runoff of sewage and agricultural wastes into coastal waters introduce

Correct Answer: A) Algae growth.

4. What is the primary cause of global warming?

Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse gases.

5. What is a type of succession occurs in an abandoned farmland?

Correct Answer: A) Old-field succession.

6. A key goal of environmental science is

Correct Answer: A) Sustainability.

7. True or False. Topography refers to surface characteristics of an area, such as the presence of a mountain.

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. All of the organisms living in a particular area and the physical components with which the organisms interact (both biotic and abiotic)

Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem.

9. A law that set standards to minimize the surface effects of coal mining on the environment

Correct Answer: A) Surfacing mining control and reclamation act of 1977.

10. Cutting down trees is always bad for the environment.

Correct Answer: B) False.

11. If 10, 000 J of energy is present at the T1 level, then what is the energy available at the T2 level?

Correct Answer: A) 1000 J.

12. How is phosphorus released into the environment?

Correct Answer: B) Weathering of phosphate rock.

13. This is the plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.

Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere.

14. How are radioactive wastes disposed of?

Correct Answer: A) In noncorrosive containers underground.

15. Environmental problems can be viewed as

Correct Answer: A) Issues with earth's air, water and soil that have developed due to human misuse.

16. The Moon revolves around

Correct Answer: B) The Earth.

17. A tropical biome dominated by grasses, shrubs, and small trees

Correct Answer: A) Savanna.

18. Acid deposition forms as a result of

Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

19. ..... are organic compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon.

Correct Answer: B) Hydrocarbons.

20. All of the following would be considered resource depletion EXCEPT

Correct Answer: D) Solar energy not reaching Earth's surface due to haze.