Environmental Sciences Quiz 103 (20 MCQs)

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1. A branch of philosophy that involves the study of behavior-good vs. bad, right vs. wrong.
2. What do consumers use for their energy source?
3. In photosynthesis, plants use ..... to make .....
4. A wetland is an example of a(n) ..... ecosystem.
5. Where we live.
6. The scientific study of patterns of disease in a population.
7. Using a resource in ways that maintain the resource at a certain quality for a certain period of time is called
8. The leading renewable energy resource that is used to produce electricity in the world today is .....
9. The first Earth Day was made possible by modern environmentalists. Who started this movement?
10. The average temperature on Earth has increased in the last century. Which reason best explains this rise in temperature?
11. Particles in the air that are small enough to breathe in to the lungs
12. What is the end result of eutrophication?
13. While hiking up a steep trail in the Adironack Mountains of New York State, a hiker first passes through a deciduous forest and then through an area of evergreen trees.The transition from one biome to another along trail is most similar to the transition of biomes that occurs with increasing .....
14. Human activity adds CO2 to the atmosphere through all of these EXCEPT
15. The boundary represented by $\rightarrow$ < .....
16. Oxygen is the main greenhouse gas.
17. Which two terrestrial biomes receive the least amount of precipitation?
18. How do caves form?
19. Currents at the surface of the ocean are driven
20. Why do we need to recycle?