Environmental Sciences Quiz 687 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do you call an organism that kills another for food?
2. Which of the following is the best definition of a natural resource:
3. Destroyed by CFCs
4. What can add dissolved oxygen to the water?
5. Numerical data
6. Adding data and dividing it by the number of objects
7. What causes elevated nitrates in an aquatic ecosystem?
8. Is the following statement true or false? "Fossil energy is a renewable energy resource."
9. A group of the same species that live in the same area
10. Identify the following as a renewable or nonrenewable resource:Wind
11. Earth consists of
12. Longitude is the measurement east or west of the prime meridian. Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles. These lines are known as meridians.
13. Which method of waste disposal was done in the past in the United States and is still done in developing nations?
14. Air occupies space and has .....
15. How does the Sun affect air?
16. Ted is looking at a map of Texas. He wants to know which direction is North. What part of the map should he look at to find his answer?
17. ..... are living parts of an ecosystem.
18. A species that is influential to the survival of many other species in its ecosystem is called a .....
19. Wrote the book, Silent Spring, which warned of the ominous effects of pesticide use.
20. Permanently frozen soil is: