Environmental Sciences Quiz 142 (20 MCQs)

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1. The total amount of greenhouse gases released by a product, service or event over its full life cycle is linked to .....

Correct Answer: B) It's carbon footprint.

2. Society shifted to fossil fuels

Correct Answer: A) Industrial revolution.

3. Where is evidence most often found to represent a record of Earth's history?

Correct Answer: D) Rocks, fossils, and ice cores.

4. ..... species are more susceptible to being wiped out by the introduction of invasive species.

Correct Answer: D) Specialist.

5. How can the planting of new trees help reduce climate change?

Correct Answer: C) Trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.

6. A factor the experimenter changes on the x-axis of a graph

Correct Answer: B) Independent Variable.

7. Coral reefs are endangered by:

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

8. Lizzy wants to test the effects of fertilizer on plant growth. Which of the following is the dependent variable?

Correct Answer: B) Plant height.

9. Which of the following sciences contribute to the field of environmental science?

Correct Answer: D) All options are correct.

10. The outermost solid layer of the Earth is called the

Correct Answer: D) Crust.

11. What is a peat?

Correct Answer: A) Non-decomposed organic matter left behind by the carboniferous trees.

12. Good and bad, right and wrong; moral principles or values

Correct Answer: D) Ethics.

13. FILL IN THE BLANKS:LAND IS AN ..... OF ..... MAGNITUDE

Correct Answer: B) ASSET, LIMITED.

14. Humans are a part of which sphere?

Correct Answer: B) Biosphere.

15. A ..... is a set of interacting components considered to be a distinct entity for the purpose of study or understanding.

Correct Answer: A) System.

16. What do you call the living things that shape an environment?

Correct Answer: A) Biotic.

17. ..... water is a mixture of fresh water and salt water.

Correct Answer: A) Brackish.

18. What is NOT an example of a renewable resource?

Correct Answer: A) Coal.

19. What is the shape of an age structure diagram for the following:Stable population?

Correct Answer: A) .

20. Environmental Ethics

Correct Answer: B) Moral relationship.