Environmental Sciences Quiz 140 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following government agencies is responsible for the Clean Air Act?
2. What are the three primary ways that organisms depend on each other?
3. Which is an example of an external cost?
4. Placer deposits are surface deposits concentrated by
5. If average global temperatures reach their projected levels in 2100, what percent of animals and plants are predicted to be at risk?
6. Because of their large size, proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids are together called
7. Organisms that make energy from the sun are called .....
8. What is the name of the scientist who conducted extensive explorations and recognized the interconnectedness of ecosystems and species, also known as the 'Father of Ecology'?
9. An organism that must get nutrients by eating other organisms is called a
10. Countries with strong infrastructure [transportation/ communication/ healthcare/ education systems] would be which level of economic development?
11. Asbestos
12. The term for water evaporating from plants is
13. Which of the following is a step in the hydrologic (Water) cycle?
14. A human-centered worldview would be considered?
15. Many different disciplines make up Environmental Science. This means Environmental Science is a .....
16. The process by which one community replaces another community that has been partially or totally destroyed.
17. A rate of resource usage that replaces what is used at the same rate.
18. Which organelle receives material from the ER, then sorts and packages the material before shipping it out?
19. ..... is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment.
20. An organism whose DNA has been altered is called a(n)