Environmental Sciences Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. What organism consumes both plants and animals?

Correct Answer: B) Omnivores.

2. If you do not understand a direction or part of a lab procedure, you should

Correct Answer: B) Ask the instructor before proceeding.

3. The situation of a community exploiting a good or natural resource that everyone shares in equally, is referred to as a/an

Correct Answer: C) Tragedy of the commons.

4. Species become extinct because of ALL the following reasons except

Correct Answer: D) Fighting.

5. Extinction rates are significantly ..... in recent decades than before.

Correct Answer: B) Higher.

6. Which of the following statements best describes the concept of NPP

Correct Answer: A) Energy captured minus energy lost.

7. Acid rain is the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. Abiotic factors include all of the following except-

Correct Answer: D) Competition.

9. Photochemical smog, and the pollutants that cause it, can irritate the ....., ....., and .....

Correct Answer: A) Nose, eyes, and throat.

10. In which layer of Earth's atmosphere is the ozone layer?

Correct Answer: B) Stratosphere.

11. Cutting of a trees on large scale is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Deforestation.

12. What is effluent?

Correct Answer: A) Wastewater after solids have been removed.

13. What is the correct order of the scientific method?

Correct Answer: C) Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analyze, Conclusion.

14. When a fossil of an animal is found on almost all continents, then it supports

Correct Answer: B) The idea of a connected original continent.

15. ZPG (when birthrate is equal to death rate) stands for .....

Correct Answer: B) Zero population growth.

16. When and where is it believed that the industrial revolution began?

Correct Answer: D) 1840s in Great Britain.

17. What is the part of earth that contains all life?

Correct Answer: A) Biosphere.

18. True or False:Human beings are wiping out species much faster than nature creates them, causing what scientists call a "6th extinction"

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. If I ride my bike to school instead of walking, then I will get to school faster. What is the dependent variable?

Correct Answer: B) How fast you get to school.

20. When fish excrete their waste, what toxic byproduct is produced?

Correct Answer: C) Ammonia.