Environmental Sciences Quiz 454 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where you will find the ozone layer.

Correct Answer: A) Stratosphere.

2. What is the logical way of thinking about the world?

Correct Answer: C) The Scientific Method.

3. Which biome is known to be the warmest during the day and the coldest during the night?

Correct Answer: D) Desert.

4. Besides water, currents transport matter and ..... around the world.

Correct Answer: A) Energy.

5. A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is consumed is a

Correct Answer: B) Renewable resource.

6. When a resource is close to runing out, it is called a/an

Correct Answer: B) Scarcity.

7. Which word describes the movement of rock and soil to new places?

Correct Answer: C) Erosion.

8. Moral principles that guide people's actions are called .....

Correct Answer: B) Ethics.

9. What is the term for a substance that can cause cancer?

Correct Answer: A) Carcinogen.

10. Which one is a more accurate representation of what happens in an ecosystem?

Correct Answer: B) Food Web.

11. The atmospheric layer nearest the Earth's surface

Correct Answer: B) Troposphere.

12. What is conservation?

Correct Answer: B) Protect and use carefully.

13. A molecule in which one side is more positive and the other side is more negative

Correct Answer: B) Polar.

14. What are the main two components necessary for all life?

Correct Answer: B) Energy and Matter.

15. Any information collected with the senses

Correct Answer: B) Observation.

16. The study of interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment

Correct Answer: C) Ecology.

17. What is the correct formula for nitrogen gas found in the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: A) Na.

18. The most dense layer of the Earth is the

Correct Answer: A) Inner Core.

19. Why does the increase of producer type organisms decrease the amount of oxygen?

Correct Answer: B) Only the producers at the top of the lake get oxygen.

20. The measure of acidity or alkalinity (basicity) of a solution is known as

Correct Answer: A) PH.