Environmental Sciences Quiz 468 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who is at the bottom of an energy pyramid?

Correct Answer: A) Producer.

2. Specific examples of potentially renewable natural resources are:

Correct Answer: C) Forests, water, and soil.

3. Vermicomposting is done by:

Correct Answer: B) Worms.

4. Problems with exploiting oil shale and tar sand deposits as an alternative to crude oil include all of the following except:

Correct Answer: A) The deposits are usually deeply buried and difficult to extract.

5. Heat is the only thing that:

Correct Answer: A) Leaves the Earth in large amounts.

6. What are the three organic materials which are essential for life and each follow a recognizable cycle?

Correct Answer: C) Carbon, water, nitrogen.

7. Aquatic food webs begin with what?

Correct Answer: C) Phytoplankton.

8. An example of abiotic things in your pond ecosystem is

Correct Answer: D) Gravel.

9. Environmental Science:

Correct Answer: D) The systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it.

10. Which of the following is not a property of water?

Correct Answer: C) Low specific heat capacity.

11. ..... is colorless, tasteless, odorless, and radioactive.

Correct Answer: C) Radon gas.

12. Hydroelectric power produces electricity using .....

Correct Answer: C) Moving water.

13. Homologous structures are derived from the same structures in the embryo but:

Correct Answer: A) Develop to carry out different functions in the adults.

14. What are the main components of acid rain

Correct Answer: B) Sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

15. Natural selection is the unequal survival that results from the presence or absence of particular

Correct Answer: D) Traits.

16. What are some ways human impact ecosystems?

Correct Answer: A) Over farming, burning, release of grasslands.

17. When land becomes more desertlike because of human activity or climate change.

Correct Answer: B) Desertification.

18. Coniferous forests are generally located

Correct Answer: B) In the Northern Hemisphere.

19. Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has

Correct Answer: C) More younger people than older people.

20. The temperature of the ice water is 10$^\circ$C.

Correct Answer: B) Quantitative data.