Environmental Sciences Quiz 546 (20 MCQs)

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1. (estimate) How much water does it take to produce 1 pound of beef?

Correct Answer: B) 2000 gallons.

2. Pine needles are acidic and break down slowly.

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. Desalination

Correct Answer: D) Removing salt from salt water to make fresh water.

4. Which type of diagram shows the amount of energy that is transferred at each level in an ecosystem?

Correct Answer: C) Energy pyramid.

5. This biome's four seasons are very distinct.

Correct Answer: C) Deciduous forest.

6. When people are able to use a resource in a way that keeps it available for future generations to use the same way, they are practicing:

Correct Answer: C) Sustainability.

7. What is the 4th layer of the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: B) Thermosphere.

8. What town has the worst ozone readings in the world?

Correct Answer: C) Karachi, Pakistan.

9. Air pressure is greatest:

Correct Answer: A) Closer to Earth.

10. What does the word Depleted mean?

Correct Answer: A) Emptied or Used Up.

11. ..... factors are the living parts of an ecosystem, ..... factors are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Correct Answer: A) Biotic, abiotic.

12. A storm with very strong fast winds that moves over water

Correct Answer: A) Hurricane.

13. Any undesired change in air, water, or soil quality that has negative effects on the living things around it is called

Correct Answer: A) Pollution.

14. The smallest basic unit of all living things is a

Correct Answer: A) Cell.

15. The process in which plants algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen.

Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis.

16. Clean energy sources include:

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

17. Sanctuary is a place where .....

Correct Answer: B) Animals are protected.

18. A resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes.

Correct Answer: A) Renewable Resource.

19. Which sphere includes all water-salt, fresh, and vapor-on Earth's surface, underground, and in the air?

Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere.

20. A tree that sheds its leaves at a particular time of the year is

Correct Answer: C) Deciduous.