Environmental Sciences Quiz 246 (20 MCQs)

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1. In recent years, people have been (29) ..... the environment under stress.

Correct Answer: C) Putting.

2. Habitats provide everything that an individual plant or animal needs to survive:food; water; and shelter.

Correct Answer: C) Supporting.

3. Earth's temperature is anticipated to increase how many degrees Fahrenheit in this century?

Correct Answer: A) 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. I change my shape every night in the sky. I am .....

Correct Answer: B) Moon.

5. The portion of earth that supports life.

Correct Answer: B) Biosphere.

6. A final and stable community

Correct Answer: B) Climax Community.

7. If global warming continues, all of the following are potential results EXCEPT

Correct Answer: D) Greater plant and animal biodiversity.

8. The first step in the conversion of coal to electricity requires that the coal be ..... and then burned to turn a .....

Correct Answer: C) Crushed, turbine.

9. The theoretical point at which all molecular motion stops is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Absolute zero.

10. About what percent of the fuel burned by an automobile actually moves the car down the road?

Correct Answer: A) 14 percent.

11. The process of returning the land back to its original state after mining is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Reclamation.

12. During the Industrial Revolution, agricultural productivity ....., and sanitation, nutrition, and medical care vastly improved.

Correct Answer: A) Increased.

13. What is a non-renewable resource?

Correct Answer: D) Resource that cannot be replenished or replaced by a natural process within a reasonable amount of time.

14. A large, deep, freshwater standing body of water.

Correct Answer: B) Lake.

15. Which of the following is an observation?

Correct Answer: C) My cat is purring.

16. What effect do temperature inversions have?

Correct Answer: C) Traps emissions and can accumulate beneath it.

17. The biosphere is the part of Earth where ..... exists, extending about 11 km into the ocean and about 9 km into the atmosphere.

Correct Answer: A) Life.

18. What is likely to happen if the Kite is removed?

Correct Answer: C) The population of snakes would increase and the population of mice would decrease.

19. Examples of Natural Capital degradation/breakdown are all of the following Except?

Correct Answer: D) Nutrient cycling.

20. PETROL AND DIESEL ARE ALSO CALLED?

Correct Answer: A) FUEL.