Environmental Sciences Quiz 101 (20 MCQs)

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1. Starting at TEN years old, this young activist has brought attention to water contamination from lead pipes in her hometown and is the youngest Women's March Youth Ambassador.
2. Chose a more holistic prospective, saying healthy ecosystems depend on all protecting all interacting parts. He argued that people should view themselves as "The land" as members of the same community and we are obligated to treat the land in an ethical manner.
3. What is the direction of flow of energy in an ecosystem?
4. Using the 'CER' writing strategy for scientific discussion and questioning, what is needed for proper use of the 'R':
5. The biosphere also known as the ecosphere is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.
6. The salinity of the ocean water is the concentration of all tje undissolved salt it contains.
7. True or False. When seawater becomes warmer, its volume decreases.
8. Why is environmental science considered an interdisciplinary field?
9. A verbal or graphical explanation for how a system works or how it is organized
10. "Criteria to be considered an air pollutant" was established by which federal agency?
11. Conduct in accordance with what a person determines is right versus wrong is
12. An organims that only eats animals
13. A species that is still abundant in its natural range, but because of declining endangered in the near future is called.
14. Because environmental science encompasses so many different fields of study, itis said to be a(n) ..... science.
15. The troposphere gets colder as you go up. What is the reason for this?
16. The age of the crust at a divergent plate boundary is ..... than the crust in the center of a plate.
17. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report, "Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations." What does anthropogenic mean?
18. The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere is
19. What term describes the state in which a human population can survive indefinitely?
20. Exhaust from vehicles is one of the largest forms of air pollution. What can communities do to reduce air pollution from vehicles?