Environmental Sciences Quiz 258 (20 MCQs)

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1. What process breaks down bedrock to begin soil formation?

Correct Answer: B) Weathering.

2. What should you do if you have a question while in class?

Correct Answer: A) Raise my hand and wait for the teacher to acknowledge me.

3. Improving energy efficiency means using less energy to provide the same amount of work.

Correct Answer: A) True.

4. Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable resource?

Correct Answer: B) Natural gas.

5. Temperate grasslands are characterized by cold winters and hot and dry summers.

Correct Answer: A) True.

6. If one nation's laws make it impossible for another nation to sell its goods there, which organization is most likely to get involved?

Correct Answer: C) The World Trade Organization.

7. Energy from the Sun

Correct Answer: C) Renewable resource.

8. What is Environmentalism?

Correct Answer: B) Social Movement dedicated to protecting the natural world.

9. What is the largest land biome?

Correct Answer: A) Taiga.

10. The slowest changing sphere is the .....

Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere.

11. All of the rock at and below Earth's surface

Correct Answer: A) Geosphere.

12. Biome that is characterized by rolling hills, plains, and tall grasses.

Correct Answer: D) Prairie.

13. Cloud is associated with

Correct Answer: B) Water.

14. The treatment of wastewater is commonly known as

Correct Answer: C) Sewage Treatment.

15. What is the term for a type of waste that can be used again or made into something new?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

16. All parties which interact with a business are known as

Correct Answer: B) Stakeholders.

17. MOST OF THE VECHICLES RUN ON.....?

Correct Answer: A) FUEL.

18. Predict a way people can reduce the emissions that contribute to smog and the greenhouse effect.

Correct Answer: B) By taking public transportation or walking instead of driving a car.

19. Most municipal solid waste in the United States will end up in a(n) .....

Correct Answer: D) Landfill.

20. A variable that the a scientist manipulates or controls in the experiement

Correct Answer: A) Independent variable.