Environmental Sciences Quiz 124 (20 MCQs)

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1. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was passed in the year .....

Correct Answer: B) 1974.

2. Found below the surface zone of the Ocean, it is between 350 m and 700 m deep.

Correct Answer: A) Thermocline.

3. What type of energy is produced from the natural movement of the wind?

Correct Answer: B) Wind.

4. How much of the Earth's water is fresh water that is available to humans (not frozen or inaccessible)?

Correct Answer: A) 1%.

5. Comes from car exhaust, leads to eye, nose, and throat irritation, and lead to ozone formation and photochemical smog

Correct Answer: B) Nitrogen oxide.

6. What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

Correct Answer: C) 1000.

7. Why are plants considered as producers?

Correct Answer: A) Plants convert energy from the sun into chemical energy in the form of glucose (food).

8. Brazilian rubber trapper that headed a conservation initiative driven by local, forest people.

Correct Answer: B) Chico Mendes.

9. What is the most common forest ecosystem in Wisconsin?

Correct Answer: C) Temperate Forest.

10. What is the primary source of energy in an ecosystem?

Correct Answer: C) Radiant energy.

11. A pride of lions living the same area is considered a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Population.

12. Twenty-one percent of Earth's atmosphere is made up of

Correct Answer: A) Oxygen.

13. The biome that is most productive and diverse on Earth is the

Correct Answer: A) Rain forest.

14. Elements essential for good health. e.g. Calcium, Iron, Potassium

Correct Answer: C) Minerals.

15. If animals eat plants to get energy, where doplants get their energy?

Correct Answer: D) Sun.

16. What does the Law of Superposition tell us?

Correct Answer: C) The youngest rock is the most top layer of rock.

17. In which level of the atmosphere can life be found?

Correct Answer: C) Troposphere.

18. The biome with the highest species diversity is

Correct Answer: D) Tropical rain forest.

19. Some species are so important to the functioning of an ecosystem that they are called

Correct Answer: B) Keystone species.

20. A kind of forest that consist of tall trees with minimal branches and considered as major source of timber and other major forest products.

Correct Answer: B) Dipterocarp Forest.