Environmental Sciences Quiz 396 (20 MCQs)

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1. Most popular method of wastewater disposal
2. Characterized by low population growth rate, high life expectancy, and diverse industrial economies
3. Is the identification by humans of desirable traits in plants and animals, and the steps taken to enhance and perpetuate those traits in future generations
4. The rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas
5. Which type of strategists would you expect to have low levels of prenatal care and a short life expectancy?
6. The most dense layer of the atmosphere is
7. What are the other two major forest biomes besides the temperate forest?
8. True or False:An organism's niche describes its use of resources and its functional role in a community.
9. Burning ..... releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
10. The amount of space an object takes up is its'
11. Background knowledge
12. Extends from the center of the core to the surface of the crust.
13. The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment
14. Convection currents in the mantle are caused by differences in temperature and (a)
15. Which country was the location of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and is now a place of scientific study on the impacts of radiation on the environment?
16. ..... is all of the living and nonliving things in a given area.
17. The part of the earth in which living things interact and life is located is called the
18. Just before you reach the top of a mountain where there is year-round ice and snow, you would expect to see
19. Interdisciplinary science means a combination of more than one science
20. A ..... is an environment where an organism lives throughout the year or for shorter periods of time to find a mate and it contains all an animal needs to survive such as food and shelter.