Environmental Sciences Quiz 467 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following biomes would support and be characterized by the greatest number and diversity of herbivores?
2. What are the two stages of photosynthesis?
3. Which of the following has a bigger impact on your eco footprint?
4. Grassland that receives less than 50 cm of annual rainfall.
5. In which atmospheric layer is most water vapor found?
6. During which period in human history were most of our modern environmental problems introduced?
7. The act of one organism consuming another for food is called what?
8. What percentage of the global population lives in developed countries? What percentage of Earth's resources do they use?What percentage of the world's pollution do they cause?
9. The massive spike in population growth that has occurred in the past 100 years is due to
10. What is the very next thing that happens after fertilisers enter a river in eutrophication?
11. What river caught fire in 1969 from all of the waste and pollution filling it?
12. What protects the earth from harmful UV rays from the sun?
13. Hetch Hetchy was a beautiful valley in Yosemite. It damming in the 1920's caused major controversy among environmentalists. Opposition was led by John Muir and the Sierra Club.
14. Assuming North is at the top of the map, which side of the mountain whose peak is 682.5 m is the steepest?
15. Environmental science does not consider the economic costs and benefits of environmental policies and actions.
16. Which of the following government organizations is responsible for maintaining and enforcing environmental standards and laws?
17. Which procedure helps guard against faulty science contaminating the literature on which all scientists rely?
18. ..... succession is a progression that begins with a total lack of organisms and bare minerals or water.
19. East or west amity is the .....
20. The ecological footprint for a person in a particular country takes into accountwhat requirements of supporting that individual?