Environmental Sciences Quiz 593 (20 MCQs)

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1. Global warming could affect:

Correct Answer: D) All of the Above tagsModerate.

2. Symbiosis is what?

Correct Answer: A) The close relationship that exists when two or more species live together.

3. What is the source of the majority of phosphorous that enters ecosystems?

Correct Answer: D) Rocks.

4. Groundwater

Correct Answer: C) Surface water that percolates through soil.

5. An area's urbanization rate can tell you .....

Correct Answer: B) What % of people have shifted from rural areas to urban areas.

6. When the sun has more sunspots, solar radiation reaching Earth will

Correct Answer: A) Increase.

7. Most of the world's forests are located in ..... regions.

Correct Answer: D) Mountain.

8. There are twenty one pilots in this photo. Which type of observation is this?

Correct Answer: B) Quantitative.

9. Environmental ethical view that considers all living things

Correct Answer: D) Biocentrism.

10. A feeding level, such as primary consumer or secondary consumer, is also known as a(n)

Correct Answer: A) Trophic level.

11. Making sure the soil is unpolluted so that farmers can grow crops is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Environmental Justice.

12. ..... power is electricity produced by flowing water.

Correct Answer: C) Hydroelectric.

13. Which of the following is NOT a type of non-market value?

Correct Answer: D) Political value.

14. Which natural resource is a renewable energy resource?

Correct Answer: D) Sun.

15. What is mountaintop removal mining?

Correct Answer: B) Explosives used to destroy a mountain and expose a coal seam.

16. The study of environmental science primarily considers

Correct Answer: A) Interactions among human systems and those found in Earth.

17. Tragedy of the Commons refers to what environmental challenge?

Correct Answer: A) Protecting shared resources.

18. If the total ecological footprint is larger than its biocapacity, the area is said to have its:

Correct Answer: B) Ecological deficit.

19. Biome dominated by conifers and characterized by harsh winters; occurs just below the Arctic Circle; also called the northern coniferous forest.

Correct Answer: D) Taiga.

20. A testable idea or statement that attempts to answer a scientific question in an "if, then" format is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis.