Environmental Sciences Quiz 449 (20 MCQs)

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1. Scientific Question:Will a person fall asleep faster if they listen to music?What is the manipulated variable?

Correct Answer: A) Music.

2. A volcanic eruption sends.....

Correct Answer: A) Lava, ash and smoke.

3. It is an air transport with the last name of a water transport.

Correct Answer: D) Spaceship.

4. The unit of heat needed to raise one gram of water one degree celsius

Correct Answer: D) Calorie.

5. A ..... is a waste disposal facility where wastes are put in the ground and covered each day with a layer of dirt, plastic, or both.

Correct Answer: A) Landfill.

6. The flock of white seagulls that are fighting over a single food source (Nemo & Dory) depicts which ecological relatioship?

Correct Answer: A) Intraspecies Competition.

7. Randomness in a system

Correct Answer: D) Entropy.

8. Full Form of HUDCO

Correct Answer: A) Housing and Urban Development Corporation.

9. In the U.S. about 50 million tons of waste per year is dumped into the ocean

Correct Answer: A) True.

10. DDT and DNA are both dangerous pesticides

Correct Answer: B) False.

11. Which is the most direct way in which biodiversity can provide a source of income?

Correct Answer: B) Ecotourism.

12. Which tool is used to measure the volume of a liquid?

Correct Answer: B) Graduated cylinder.

13. Water moves or flows over the land surface.

Correct Answer: C) Surface Runoff.

14. When a population has unlimited resources, and it continues to grow to its FULL LIVING POTENTIAL, it is called

Correct Answer: D) Biotic potential.

15. All the living and non-living things with the organisms interact

Correct Answer: B) Environment.

16. A primary consumer is likely to consume .....

Correct Answer: C) Producers.

17. Which statement best compares natural selection and artificial selection?

Correct Answer: D) Natural selection is nature driven and artificial selection is man driven.

18. ..... are standards we consider important.

Correct Answer: A) Values.

19. When trees receive ..... of rain they do NOT grow as much and leave narrow rings

Correct Answer: A) Little.

20. Which of the following are not part of the IUCN Red List?

Correct Answer: A) Domesticated species.