Environmental Sciences Quiz 530 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which major forest biome consists mostly of coniferous trees (pine, spruce, fir)?
2. A disease wipes out most of the rabbit population in a forest. What type of limiting factor would this be?
3. Who works for the agency North Carolina Wildlife Commission responsible for controlling the harvest of wildlife?
4. Role or position and species has in its environment
5. What are the 3 types of consumers?
6. India is in the Northern Hemisphere and Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere. In June, it is summer in India and winter in Australia. What is the main reason the seasons are opposite in the two countries?
7. A close relationship between 2 or more species is called:
8. Which month does El nino and La nina occur?
9. All living things are made of these
10. What was the Deep Water Horizon?
11. One group of gases that is responsible for destroying ozone in the ozone layer is
12. What is a major advantage of mass transit over private vehicles?
13. Loss of biodiversity is the number and variety of species.
14. An organism that can make its own food
15. Effective scientists are always ....., meaning that they do not simply accept what they hear from others.
16. Nitrogen compounds are converted back into atmospheric N2 by bacteria and burning of fossil fuels through this process
17. What happens to rain that falls through a polluted atmosphere?
18. What do invasive species do to the habitat they move into? (paragraph 2)
19. Toxins accumulation in the tissues of organisms as they pass through a food chain/web is called .....
20. Ocean currents are powered by