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Environmental Sciences Quiz 419 (20 MCQs)

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1. A community's drinking water has been tested and determined to contain toxic levels of chemicals. There is no infrastructure in place and no plan by the leaders of the community to fix this health crisis. Which professional would be responsible for lobbying on behalf of the community members and leaders to higher government officials for funding and clean water distribution?
2. 🌍✨ Rohan is on a mission! He's determined to understand and tackle the challenge of soil erosion. Which scientific field should be his go-to guide?
3. What is causing the pollinator population to decline?
4. Comes from many different sources and can be more difficult to identify. An example would be a river polluted by runoff from any of the land in its watershed
5. ..... is the line in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0$^\circ$, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England.
6. The scientific study of natural environments.
7. A ..... is made up of different living organisms that are not all the same species.
8. Solid to Liquid
9. The height of an object above sea level.
10. An abiotic factor of an environment includes
11. Which is considered biotic?
12. In predation, this is the organism that kills another organism.
13. "Climate" is driven by what?
14. About what percent of the Earth can actually be lived on? What percent is habitable?
15. What two things are required to turn decaying plant material into coal?
16. Which of these is NOT a way in which nitrogen may enter the soil?
17. Brown soils are associated with moderate organic matter levels and iron oxides.
18. Butterflies around the world are declining due to pollution, both in species evenness and species richness. What do we call such a species?
19. In a food web / food chain, what do you call an organism that makes its own food (typically through the process of photosynthesis)?
20. In temperate rain forests, trees such as cedars and spruces, which do not lose their leaves at any time of year, are called
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