Environmental Sciences Quiz 458 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is an example of nonpoint source pollution?
2. ..... science is the interdisciplinary field that includes both scientific and social aspects of human impact on the world
3. Which career helps the environment by studying insects? These professionals are utilized heavily with development of foods, medicines, chemical pesticides and speciation.
4. The rapid growth of algae in bodies of water produces a condition called .....
5. Forests composed mainly of indigenous trees not deliberately planted
6. Relationships in which one organism lives inside or on another organism and harms it are called:
7. How do plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
8. Is the science by which matter and energy are made useful to humans in structures, machines, and products.
9. By the end of the century how many degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature on Earth expected to increase? (prediction)
10. During the industrial revolution, the population grew in what type of area?
11. Natural causes of air pollution include all of the following except
12. In order to fix the pollution on the Tijuana River, the United States needs to .....
13. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as being regulated?
14. The study of the environment that includes the physical, biological, and social sciences is known as
15. Which devices trap suspended particles in air by spraying water and other liquids?
16. An organism that gets its energy requirements by consuming other organisms is known as a/an
17. All are examples of Interventions and Signs of Hope except;
18. If a person eats a vegetable, the person is acting as a .....
19. When spilled water seems to disappear, it actually just .....
20. Conservation biology provides ways to preserve .....