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Environmental Science Reviewer E-Quiz 1 d. Using a battery to store useable energy from aa 1. Pollution that is ____ will break down over renewable source time. A good example would be ________________....

Environmental Science Reviewer E-Quiz 1 d. Using a battery to store useable energy from aa 1. Pollution that is ____ will break down over renewable source time. A good example would be ________________. 7. Which is an example of a way you can a. Biodegradable / A styrofoam box reduce? b. Persistant / An aluminum can a. buy products with less packaging c. Biodegradable / Grass clippings b. walk to school d. Persistant / Lead c. use cloth shopping bags d. collect plastic bottles 2. Environmental science is the study of the interaction of humans with the 8. What does recycle mean? environment. Which of these would NOT be a. To rot away included as part of the environment? b. To use less of a. What the soil is made of. c. To make something new b. The average temperature, wind, precipitation, d. To use again and other climate factors. c. Animals and plants in the region and 9. Which is a major environmental concern for surrounding areas. our oceans? d. All of these would be considered part of the a. Air pollution environment. b. Plastic pollution c. Nutrient pollution 3. What does reuse mean? d. Option 4 a. To rot away b. To use less of 10. Environmental science is an c. To make something new interdisciplinary field of study. This means d. to use again that… a. Each environmental issue is specific to only 4. According to the Law of Supply and one type of science. Demand, if the amount of oil extracted b. Many science and non-science fields of worldwide were to increase and the demand study, such as economics and politics, are stayed the same, the price of oil should included. ___________. c. It is limited to only one branch of science; a. Increase ecology. b. Decrease d. Multiple branches of science only (biology, c. Remain stable chemistry, etc) are covered. d. Fluctuate randomly 11. What does it mean to reduce? 5. The process of making the environment a. To cut things up into little pieces. dirty or not safe to use is... b. To use less of something. - Pollution c. To use as much of something as you can. d. To use something again. 6. Which of the following examples demonstrates the effects of the second law of 12. Which is a nonrenewable natural resource? thermodynamics on an energy source? a. Trees a. The intermittent nature of solar energy b. Oil b. Excess heat emanating from a nuclear c. Oxygen power plant d. Solar energy c. Converting organic matter to fossil fuels over million of years 13. An example of an inexhaustible resource 20. Trees are considered ______________ would be: resources because they will eventually a. Sunlight regrow, given enough time. b. Iron ore a. Renewable c. Coal b. Inexhaustible d. Trees c. Nonrenewable d. Recyclable 14. Most people didn’t recycle or conserve resources before 1970 because they did not 21. Why is biomass considered a renewable a. have time. energy source? b. know how humans were hurting the planet. a. The use of biomass speeds up the carbon c. care about the planet. cycle. d. have enough recyclable items. b. The combustion of biomass does not result in carbon emissions. 15. One of the three major environmental c. The growth of biomass removes carbon problems is resource depletion. Which is a dioxide from the atmosphere. major contributing factor to this problem? d. Biomass can be regrown at an equal or a. Developing countries have a much higher rate greater rate than it is consumed. of resource consumption than others. b. The human population overall is too small. 22. What is the name of the fuel made from c. Developed countries have a much higher plants? rate of resource consumption than others. a. Solar energy d. Each country uses approximately the same b. Trees amount of resources. c. Water d. biofuel 16. Why did bison almost go extinct in the late 1800s? 23. Which of the following components of the a. Disease environment are effective transporters of b. Climate change matter? c. Overhunting a. Atmosphere and hydrosphere d. Ice age b. Atmosphere and Lithosphere c. Hydrosphere and lithosphere 17. Which major topic of environmental science d. Lithosphere and thermosphere refer to providing the same resources for future generations? 24. A material left over or thrown away is... a. Urbanization a. Wastes b. Science and values b. Resources c. Human population growth c. Pollution d. Sustainability d. Conserve 18. What does decompose mean? 25. What exactly does biodiversity measure a. To rot away within an ecosystem? b. To build up a. The number of different species within an c. to make something new ecosystem d. To use again b. The total population of every living organism within an ecosystem 19. It is said to be the underlying reason of c. The number of different animals within an environmental problems. Select one: ecosystem a. Sustainability d. The total population of a single species within b. Urbanization an ecosystem c. Human population growth d. Science and values E-Quiz 2 7. What harmful gas does the rainforest help 1. Which human activity is correctly paired to get rid of from our atmosphere? with its likely future consequence? a. Nitrogen a. overfishing in the Atlantic — increase in b. Oxygen supply of flounder and salmon as food for c. Carbon dioxide people d. Nitrous oxide b. development of electric cars or hybrid vehicles — increased rate of global warming 8. When ________________ are consumed by c. use of fossil fuels — depletion of humans, the surrounding ecosystems can be underground coal, oil, and natural gas impacted. supplies a. natural resources d. genetically engineering animals — less food b. coal available to feed the world’s population c. species d. community 2. Which of the following does NOT cause water pollution? 9. Solid waste produced from sewage a. oil spills treatment plants is what type of pollution? b. garbage a. light pollution c. fertilizers from farms b. noise pollution d. Smoke c. land pollution d. water pollution 3. __________________ is using materials wisely to protect them. 10. Garbage produced by households and a. Pollution businesses b. Conservation a. hazardous wastes c. Recycling b. school wastes d. Smog c. municipal solid wastes d. city water 4. Which pollution is caused by burning of fossil fuels such as cars and airplanes? 11. _________________________ can help a. air pollution _________________________ the amount of b. noise pollution natural resources being wasted. One c. land pollution example is to turn off the faucet when d. light pollution brushing your teeth. a. consumers, reduce 5. To reduce pollution in the environment, b. natural resources, greater people should ______________ materials. c. consumers, increase a. Recycle d. population, consumes b. Pollute c. throw away 12. An example of something that is d. clean biodegradable is a. a plastic milk jug in a landfill 6. During the Mindoro oil spill, many marine b. a leaf in a compost pile animals were killed. Why? c. a polystyrene burger container in a trash can a. The animals drank the oil from the ship's tank. d. a rusted iron in dumpster b. The oil spilled into the ocean and poisoned the animals food. 13. Cannot be broken down by biological c. Marine animals were not killed because they processes swam to safety. a. plant wastes d. The oil was absorbed by the ocean. b. paper c. plastic d. yard wastes 14. How do landfills effect the environment? 21. These are two ways people can reduce air a. Landfills cause chemicals from trash to pollution. absorb into the soil and harm plants. a. Drive vehicles that get low gas mileage / Burn b. Landfills cause smog in the air. trash at home c. Landfills support plant growth and healthy b. Burn styrofoam at landfills / Use more chlorine soil. c. Create major forest fires / Use CFC's d. Landfills cause fish to be poisoned and die. d. Burn less fossil fuels / walk and ride bikes 15. The _____________ the human population, 22. Which human activity would most likely the ______________ the amount of deplete nonrenewable resources? resources being used. a. governmental restriction of industrial pollution a. greater, greater b. development of wildlife refuges b. greater, least c. increased use of fossil fuels c. least, greater d. use of natural enemies to eliminate insect pest d. least, least 23. How can trash effect wildlife? 16. What does biodiversity mean? a. Wildlife animals are afraid of trash. a. The different amount of species in an area b. Wildlife could eat trash that they think is b. Only one species in an area. food. c. Nitrogen fixation c. Trash makes it hard for wildlife to camouflage. d. All abiotic life d. Wildlife animals cannot hunt prey because of the smell of garbage. 17. What is one thing humans can do to positively impact the environment? 24. The human activity, among the following, a. They can empty their drinks into rivers and which causes maximum environmental other water sources. pollution having a regional and global b. They can recycle items if possible. impact, is c. They can throw their trash away anywhere. a. Agriculture d. They can work in factories that produce a lot b. Urbanization of smoke. c. Industrialization d. Mining 18. Which is an example of recycling? a. Using paper cups instead of glasses 25. Approximately 75 percent of the Earth's b. Turning all the lights on when it's dark surface is covered in water. So why is water c. Turning the water off while you brush your considered such a precious resource? teeth a. The greenhouse effect is causing most of the d. Making new glass bottles from old ones world's freshwater to be trapped in the 19. Which is considered an energy source atmosphere a. granite b. Only a small fraction of the Earth's water is b. water freshwater available for drinking and c. petroleum irrigation d. iron c. Each year, more freshwater is being trapped in icecaps located at the North and South Poles 20. Select the natural form of air pollution. d. Global warming caused by greenhouse gas a. CFC's emissions will likely cause Earth's oceans to b. Paints and Solvents evaporate c. Forest Fires d. Burning Fossil Fuels E- Quiz 3 b. Alternate energy increases the amount of sulfur 1. Which of the following describes the dioxide ejected into the atmosphere. importance of biodiversity to an ecosystem? c. Alternate energy does not produce radioactive a. People like to be able to see all the different waste. plants and animals d. Alternate energy is more efficient than fossil b. If there aren't all the different species, there fuels. will be resources that aren't being used c. Biodiversity is not as important as many 7. Which of the following is an example of a people think biodiversity-friendly practice? d. Biodiversity can help minimize the effects of a. mowing the lawn losing a species. b. planting native plant species c. clear-cutting land for farms 2. What long-term impact could the d. eating less meat destruction of large areas of forests have on Earth? 8. All of the following are considered a. increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels renewable energy sources EXCEPT b. increased atmospheric oxygen levels a. wind c. decreased amount of acid rain b. coal d. decreased rate of erosion c. biomass d. solar 3. What is global warming? a. the melting of ice caps and glaciers 9. Which is a major disadvantage of wood b. the decrease of oxygen level in the Earth's harvesting and deforestation? atmosphere a. It increases health risks for workers. c. the increasing temperature of Earth's b. It discharges sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere atmosphere d. the increasing heat of Earth's asthenosphere c. It releases harmful pollution into the soil. d. It can lead to soil erosion and surface 4. Energy that can be replenished at the same disruption. rate as it is used a. Renewable Energy 10. What is greenhouse effect? b. Alternative Energy a. increasing Earth's temperature c. Natural Gas b. increased carbon in the Earth's atmosphere d. Nonrenewable Energy c. absorbs and emits radiant energy from the sun d. warm atmosphere around Earth caused by 5. How does biomass reduce our carbon trapped sun's radiation footprint by producing less CO2 than fossil fuels? 11. This classification of risk means that the a. Biomass doesn't release any CO2 when species is at serious risk of extinction. burned. a. extinct b. Biomass filters CO2 to make it more b. endangered environmentally stable. c. vulnerable c. Plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere and d. threatened put it permanently into the ground. d. Plants absorb the same amount of CO2 that 12. Which of these is an effect of air pollution? is released when it is burned. a. Decrease in global temperatures b. Increased disease for humans 6. What is the major advantage that alternate c. Reduced food sources for humans energy has over fossil fuels? d. Respiratory problems a. Alternate energy reduces the amount of carbon dioxide ejected into the atmosphere. 13. Which environmental concern is most 20. How agriculture can negatively impact the associated with burning of fossil fuels? environment? a. pollution of ocean waters a. Agriculture reduces the amount of oxygen in b. ozone layer destruction the atmosphere. c. global climate change b. Farmers use fertilizers which contaminate d. decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide rivers and streams. c. It can increase the amount of flooding. 14. What does biodiversity mean? d. It releases CO2 into the atmosphere. a. Only one species in an area. b. All abiotic life 21. What two human activities contribute the c. The different amount of species in an area most to global warming? d. Nitrogen fixation a. Burning fossil fuels and deforestation b. Mining and vehicle exhaust 15. Globally, the leading cause of biodiversity c. Burning fossil fuels and agriculture loss is d. Deforestation and agriculture a. habitat change and loss b. pollution 22. Forest clearing, farming, and road building c. poaching and overharvesting are all examples of d. invasive species a. Climate Change b. Habitat loss 16. Using Earth's resources carefully and c. Population distribution sustainably in order to prevent loss or waste d. Biodiversity is called a. disturbance 23. Why is solar energy considered renewable b. resilience energy? c. preservation a. It's cheaper than fossil fuels d. conservation b. The sun's energy would not run out for billions of years 17. In what way are humans most impacting the c. Solar energy recharges batteries biodiversity of ecosystems around the d. All of them world? a. We are putting too many organisms in zoos or 24. Pollution hanging over urban areas that keeping them as pets causes reduced visibility is called b. We are increasing biodiversity by breeding a. Smog new species b. Light pollution c. We are destroying the habitats of a large c. Temperature inversion number of species d. Air pollution d. Recreational hunting 25. Which of these is not a cause of the loss of 18. Energy that cannot be replaced in our biodiversity? lifetime a. pollution a. Alternative Energy b. playing too much sports b. Geothermal c. climate change c. Renewable Energy d. natural disasters d. Nonrenewable Energy 19. How urbanization affect an area? a. decreases human population b. increases biodiversity c. decreases the need of natural resources d. increase the risk of flooding in an area