Environmental Sciences Quiz 191 (20 MCQs)

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1. A phenomenon in which there is an overuse of shared resources that harms society and/or the environment

Correct Answer: D) Tragedy of the commons.

2. What is the development of land for houses and other buildings near a city called?

Correct Answer: D) Urbanization.

3. Most of the United States' early environmental policies involved restrictions enforced by the government. These are known as

Correct Answer: D) Regulations.

4. Which of the following is a renewable resource?

Correct Answer: C) Solar Energy.

5. Which of the following is the NOT a scientific factors of sustainability:

Correct Answer: C) Economics.

6. What happens to air at the equator?

Correct Answer: A) It rises because it is warm.

7. Get ready for a challenge! 🌍✨What groundbreaking step did Greta Thunberg take for our planet?

Correct Answer: A) Ignited a global movement to combat climate change.

8. What is strip coal mining?

Correct Answer: B) Rows of soil are removed to expose a shallow coal seam.

9. The lithosphere "rides" the convection currents that are occurring in which layer?

Correct Answer: D) Asthenosphere.

10. La Ni a is the ..... phase of the El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle.

Correct Answer: B) Cold.

11. The number one reason for deforestation?

Correct Answer: B) Agriculture.

12. What happens if you remove all of the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? The temperature:

Correct Answer: A) Decreases.

13. Which of the following is an element not found in a chlorofluorocarbon?

Correct Answer: A) Hydrogen.

14. A frog eats a fly. The frog is demonstrating .....

Correct Answer: C) Predation.

15. Which of the following items is biodegradable?

Correct Answer: C) Paper.

16. What chemical found in plant cells is able to use the Sun's energy to make food?

Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll.

17. Which of the following is an interaction in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected (+/0)?

Correct Answer: D) Commensalism.

18. Environmental factors related to soil are called:

Correct Answer: B) Edaphic factors.

19. The amount of good available

Correct Answer: C) Supply.

20. Organisms only hold on to ..... percent of the energy they ingest.

Correct Answer: B) 10.