Environmental Sciences Quiz 623 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which two countries are leaders in ethanol production (in order)?
2. Coral reefs are a type of marine ocean
3. Which one BEST describes a nonrenewable resource?
4. What trees would you find the most of in a boreal forest?
5. Weathering is a ..... phenomenon.
6. Fossil fuels and minerals are examples of
7. The rising sea level could be a consequence of
8. Which of the following type of environmental ethics places an emphasis on human interests?
9. The Earth's climate can be influenced by a number of naturally-occurring factors. These include .....
10. Units for density are
11. The Florida worm lizard does not have legs or feet. It is about eight inches long and looks like a giant earthworm, because it is pink. It doesn't have eyes or ears, but it has a mouth that looks like other lizards' mouths. Its body is covered with scales.
12. Natural resources that are naturally replenished over months, years, or decades are called
13. A goal of Environmental Science:Understand how humans interact with the environment.
14. Why do cities and suburbs have more runoff and pollution?
15. The biome with the greatest diversity of life is:
16. The major layer of the atmosphere where you can find the ozone layer
17. Liquid water is heated by the sun & rises into the atmosphere as water vapor
18. Temperature decreases as altitude increases in the Thermosphere.
19. Cleaning up an area using plants
20. Most cars on the road today are 25-30% efficient. Someone claims to have invented a car that can take the potential energy within gasoline and convert 100% of it into kinetic motion without waste. What law of thermodynamics does this violate?