Environmental Sciences Quiz 663 (20 MCQs)

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1. What conditions are developed in the aquatic ecosystem due to high levels of dissolved chlorides?

Correct Answer: C) Saline or brackish (salty) conditions.

2. A lack of water in an area is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Water scarcity.

3. Which process occurs inside the mitochondria of all eukaryotic cells, including plants and animals?

Correct Answer: A) Cellular Respiration.

4. Who created Earth Day?

Correct Answer: B) Gaylord Nelson.

5. Which two polutants cause the greatest risks to human health? are these primary or secondary pollutants?

Correct Answer: C) Ozone-secondary, particulates-primary.

6. Which layer of the Earth is divided into tectonic plates?

Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere.

7. What has to happen to rocks in order for them to transform into Metamorphic rocks?

Correct Answer: A) Heat and pressure.

8. What cause water pollution?

Correct Answer: B) Factories produce too much waste water and oil.

9. Phosphorus cycles through the Earth"s ecosystems

Correct Answer: B) Very slowly.

10. Person earns the respect and cooperation of employees to accomplish the organization's work.

Correct Answer: D) Leader.

11. Which type of environmental scientist is likely to study the interactions of gorillas?

Correct Answer: D) Ecologist.

12. Which is a major cause of permanent habitat destruction due to human impact?

Correct Answer: C) A cause is clearing land to grow food and build businesses and homes.

13. Which of the following is a level of government which takes part in regulation and legislation?

Correct Answer: C) State.

14. A bird that eats food particles from a crocodile's teeth; thereby cleaning the crocs teeth is an example of .....

Correct Answer: D) Mutualism.

15. This is where you'll find most of a the DNA in a eukaryotic cell

Correct Answer: D) Nucleus.

16. What role does the ocean play in the Carbon Cycle?

Correct Answer: A) The ocean acts as a carbon sink, holding much more carbon than the atmosphere.

17. Carbon monoxide, chloroform, formaldehyde, and asbestos are found in us homes

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Earth's innermost compositional layer

Correct Answer: B) Core.

19. Have definite volume but not shape

Correct Answer: B) Liquids.

20. This is where water evaporates from solid objects like plants, mountains or clouds in the ground.

Correct Answer: D) Transpiration.