Environmental Sciences Quiz 52 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the monomer and polymer of all carbohydrates?

Correct Answer: C) Monomer:monosaccharide, polymer:polysaccharide.

2. Which of the following statements helps to explain why fresh water is a limited resource?

Correct Answer: D) Most of the Earths water is salt water and is not liquid usable by humans.

3. Estuaries

Correct Answer: C) Are ecosystems where both fresh and salt water are present.

4. If the results of a scientist's experiment do not support the hypothesis, the scientist should .....

Correct Answer: D) Try another method.

5. What is the largest reservoir for nitrogen?

Correct Answer: C) The atmosphere.

6. What are the reasons for the seasons?

Correct Answer: C) Earth's tilt and revolution.

7. Which instrument is used to measure wind velocity?

Correct Answer: C) Anemometer.

8. What positive impact does ozone in the stratosphere have?

Correct Answer: D) Absorbs ultraviolet radiation.

9. Ozone formation can lead to photochemical smog, especially in areas that are ..... and have a lot of .....

Correct Answer: A) Warm and have a lot of traffic.

10. During which revolution did humans shift from moving around to live in communities, raise livestock, and plant crops?

Correct Answer: B) Agricultural.

11. Our Father's Father and Mother's Father are our and our Mother's Mother and Father's Mother are our?

Correct Answer: B) Grand Father, Grand Mother.

12. The UN stands for

Correct Answer: C) United Nations.

13. This period in history is when humans grew plants and animals were raised and harvested, the human population dramtically increased.

Correct Answer: B) Agricultural Revolution.

14. Have higher average incomes, slower population growth, diverse industrial economies, stronger social support systems.

Correct Answer: B) Developed Countries.

15. What stage of demographic transition has the highest population growth?

Correct Answer: B) Transitional.

16. Which type of pollutants cannot be broken down by natural processes?

Correct Answer: D) Nondegradable.

17. Sunlight falls on a semiconductor, causing it to release ..... in photovoltaic cells.

Correct Answer: B) Electrons.

18. Evolution typically happens .....

Correct Answer: B) Over millions of years.

19. Which of the following is NOT an environmental issue?

Correct Answer: A) What was the size of Earth's human population in AD 1650?.

20. It exist on every continent except in Europe.

Correct Answer: D) Desert.