Environmental Sciences Quiz 299 (20 MCQs)

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1. Study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environments.

Correct Answer: B) Ecology.

2. What would NOT be considered a source of valid scientific information?

Correct Answer: A) Tabloid magazine.

3. A tropical or subtropical marine swamp that is characterized by the abundance of low to tall trees

Correct Answer: D) Mangrove Swamp.

4. This type of front can bring strong storms

Correct Answer: A) Cold.

5. Grabbing the handle of a hot pan

Correct Answer: B) Conduction.

6. Which trophic level has the most organisms?

Correct Answer: B) Bottom.

7. Occurs on tidal flats, at the mouths of streams and on shores of protected bays

Correct Answer: B) Mangrove forest.

8. Which is NOT a major provision of the Endangered Species Act?

Correct Answer: D) Preventing invasive species from entering the United States.

9. ..... is the struggle among organisms for resources such as food, water, and space.

Correct Answer: D) Competition.

10. Kanawha County is in which USDA plant hardiness zone? (The lowest temperature that the area reaches on average.)

Correct Answer: C) Zone 6b-5$^\circ$F to 0$^\circ$F.

11. What is the fast moving part of a river or stream that has high oxygen but low nutrients?

Correct Answer: C) Source zone.

12. Developed countries often

Correct Answer: B) Have higher average incomes and slower population growth.

13. Which number represents the focus of an earthquake?

Correct Answer: C) 3.

14. Sick building syndrome(SBS) describes which phenomenon?

Correct Answer: A) Indoor air pollution.

15. These plants are the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and start the process of succession.

Correct Answer: C) Pioneers.

16. Algae blooms will ..... the amount of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic system.

Correct Answer: A) Decrease.

17. Volcanoes that form far from plate boundaries are associated with

Correct Answer: C) Hot spots.

18. Plants make their own food through a process called .....

Correct Answer: D) Photosynthesis.

19. A ..... is altered through the materials through which it travels.

Correct Answer: A) Seismic wave.

20. We need water.....

Correct Answer: C) All of these.