Environmental Sciences Quiz 622 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... is a formal way for the researcher to get comments and criticism from the scientific community.

Correct Answer: B) Peer review.

2. Where is the largest grasslands/savanna located

Correct Answer: A) Africa.

3. Which of the following statements explains why there is less energy at the top of an energy pyramid than at the bottom?

Correct Answer: A) Energy is lost as heat, or used by organisms.

4. What is the carrying capacity of an environment?

Correct Answer: C) The max number of organisms that an environment can support.

5. Ocean pollution is primarily due to .....

Correct Answer: B) Runoff from the land.

6. Which factor do forest and grassland ecosystems most likely have in common?

Correct Answer: C) The variety in organisms.

7. Which agreement was an attempt to create a global treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Correct Answer: C) Kyoto Protocol.

8. Which of the following causes earthquakes?

Correct Answer: C) Plate tectonics.

9. The clouds are grey and ground is wet.

Correct Answer: A) Qualitative.

10. Which part of the body do you use to taste food?

Correct Answer: B) Tongue.

11. The rate at which primary producers convert energy to biomass is known as ....., and is highest in the .....

Correct Answer: C) Net primary productivity; tropical rainforests.

12. Choose which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource.

Correct Answer: D) Plastic.

13. Contaminated water that results when acid dissolves toxic minerals remaining in mines and in excess rocks

Correct Answer: B) Acid mine drainage.

14. A ..... determines the watershed area and the direction of its flow based on elevation.

Correct Answer: B) Drainage Divide.

15. The land that water flows across or under on its way to a stream, river, or lake is called .....

Correct Answer: D) Watershed.

16. Which of the following gases has the highest global warming potential:

Correct Answer: A) SF6.

17. An organism that makes its own food, autotroph.

Correct Answer: A) Producer.

18. How are temperature and carbon dioxide related over time?

Correct Answer: A) As carbon dioxide levels increase, temperature increases.

19. Suppression of forest fires causes a decrease in ..... because some habitats require exposure to fire.

Correct Answer: D) Biodiversity.

20. Which term is synonymous (means the same thing) with producer?

Correct Answer: A) Autotroph.