Environmental Sciences Quiz 278 (20 MCQs)

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1. What two factors are affecting the oceans due to climate change?
2. Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid is called
3. What is the first step in the water treatment process?
4. The process of removing salts or other minerals and contaminants from seawater, brackish water, or wastewater effluent that it is an increasingly common solution to obtain fresh water for human consumption and for domestic/industrial utilization.
5. Not easily broken down in the environment:
6. Which of the following is never considered a renewable resource?
7. Biosphere is
8. An example of an inexhaustible resource would be:
9. ..... are specific statements about what we would expect to observe if the hypothesis is true.
10. What were the two major disasters that occurred in the mid-20th century?
11. Which of the following is the simplest level of organization?
12. An atmospheric gas that increases when fossil fuels are burned off.
13. Which lab tool might you use to measure the volume of a liquid?
14. The discovery of fossilized coral reefs on land is evidence that
15. Water scarcity that is the result of inadequate natural water resources to supply a region's demand
16. Match The Definition:Activities that prevent the amount of pollution made by people. It can be done through consumer consumption, driving, or industrial production.
17. Cutting down a forest, only considering the monetary gain or loss, but not the value of the forest as a whole is an example of
18. Which layer of soil has only a little bit of humus?
19. When is the Antarctic ozone hole largest?
20. We have an unlimited supply of water on earth.