Environmental Sciences Quiz 480 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... includes all the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms.
2. Which revolution allowed people to live in one place, instead of living nomadically?
3. It is the study of how living things interact with each other and with the non living environment.
4. The solid, outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle.
5. An explanation a scientist makes that is MOST LIKELY correct, but has not been 100% proven is called a .....
6. The Northern Hemisphere is tilted ..... the Sun in Summer.
7. What part of chlorofluorocarbons is destructive to ozone?
8. A Columbian tropical rainforest food chain includes the following set of feeding relationships:fig leaves $\rightarrow$ leaf cutter ants $\rightarrow$ anteater $\rightarrow$ jaguar Approximately how many pounds of ants would support one 300-pound adult jaguar?
9. Withdrawing freshwater from deep aquifers amounts to mining a nonrenewable resource.
10. Coal, Natural Gas and Oil are known as .....
11. Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emissions by
12. The amount of energy that water takes to boil will change with the volume of water. What would you graph on the X axis for the above statement?
13. A chemical compound made up of one or more simple sugar e.g. bread, rice, pasta
14. What is the source of energy for all producers?
15. Area of land on the Earth's surface from which groundwater originates
16. Working together as a community to sustainably use resources.
17. Stratosphere:troposphere::
18. What is produced by a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell?
19. Areas that have widely scattered vegetation and receive very little rain
20. The colour of your hair is .....