EXAMINATION IN Environmental Science

NAME______________________COURSE/YEAR_____________DATE____________SCORE_____

TEST l. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read and understand the statements carefully. Write the letter
corresponding the best answer on the space provided for each item.

___1. People are important to environmental science practice because they interact with
and _____ the environment around them.
A. buy
B. change
C. trade
D. sell
___2. Identify the field(s) of science that is (are) often incorporated into the practice of
environmental science??
A. Physics
B. Biology
C. Chemistry
D. Biology and Chemistry are often included in environmental science practice
___3. What scientific discipline would be best applied to address and better understand
potential ground water contamination issues near a landfill?
A. Climatology
B. Sociology
C. Environmental Science
D. Geology
___4. Select the item that presents an accurate description of a hypothesis as it relates to
using the scientific method.
A. Neither answer describe accurately a hypothesis
B. Both answers accurately describe a hypothesis
C. It is testable through experimentation
D. Involves formulating a proposed explanation that aims to answer a question.
___5. Which of the following situations best describes the use of a renewable resource?
A. a filling a car with gasoline
B. mining copper

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 C. building wooden furniture
D. burning coal in a power plang
___6. In which country is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly?
A. Kenya
B. Australia
C. Germany
D. Norway
___7. Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up
a
lake and make it healthy again describes
A. Ecology
B. Earth Science
C. Environmental Science
D. Social Science
___8. Why is the world’s loss of biodiversity a source of concern?
A. Humans depend upon other organisms for food and oxygen.
B. Loss of biodiversity is not a concern because extinctions are common
C. Species extinctions have been rare throughout history
D. None of the above
___9. _____ is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumulate
more rapidly than it can decompose.
A. plastic
B. newspaper
C. mercury
D. metal junk cars
___10. Which of the following describes the depletion of a renewable resource? Citizens
are taught what society considers most important.
A. hunting of excess deer to maintain a healthy population size
B. mining coal
C. intensive cultivation of farm land that exhausts soil nutrients
D. increasing use of solar energy to generate electrical power
___11. A sustainable world would be characterized by the

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 A. preservation of rare animals by relocation from natural habitats to laboratories.
B. maximum exploitation of natural resources using more advanced technologies.
C. invention of safer storage facilities for increased amounts of toxic wastes.
D. indefinite existence of human populations in a healthy and prosperous condition
___12. According to the law of supply and demand, what would occur if the supply of oil
declined and the demand remained the same?
A. oil prices would drop
B. oil usage would drop
C. oil prices would increase
D. oil usage would increase
__13. An ecological footprint is the
A. mark a person’s shoe makes in soft earth.
B. mount of land and ocean area needed to support one person.
C. number of animals a person has killed.
D. number of trees people cut down.
__14. Using economic considerations of resource use, the law of supply and demand
describes_____
A. the availability of abundant resources.
B. the worth of nonrenewable resources.
C. the relationship between the availability and the worth of resources.
D. reduced demand resulting from a lack of available resources.
___15. The term biodiversity refers to
A. the number of species living on Earth.
B. The number and variety of species that are considered renewable.
C. The number and variety of species living on Earth.
D. The number and variety of species that live in an area.
___16. Restrictions pollution into the atmosphere.
A. Safe Drinking Water Act
B. Clean Air Act
C. Clean Water Act
D. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
___17. What exactly does biodiversity measure within an ecosystem?

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 A. The number of different species within an ecosystem
B. The total population of every living organism within an ecosystem
C. The number of different animals within an ecosystem
D. The total population of a single species within an ecosystem
___18. Absorbs almost all the ultra-violet radiation that reaches the earth.
A. Atmosphere
B. Greenhouse gases
C. Stratospheric ozone
D. Tropospheric ozone
___19. This happens when climate changes.
A. More frequent typhoons
B. Water in the oceans warms and expands
C. Ice melts and islands disappear
D. All of these
___20. It refers to the extreme warming of the central and eastern Pacific
A. El Niño
B. La Niña
C. Tropical storm
D. Winter
___21. Which of the following is the consequence for biodiversity loss?
A. Habitat alteration or destruction
B. Forest fires
C. Excessive mining
D. Global warming
___22. What is the economic term to the exhaustion of raw materials within a region?
A. Shutdown
B. Famine
C. Resource depletion
D. Species are endangered
___23. This is a form of heat energy, which originates deep in the earth's molten interior.
A. Solar
B. Biomass
C. Hydropower

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 D. Geothermal
___24. Trees decrease the level of oxygen in the atmosphere.
A. True
B. False
__25. One of the causes of resource depletion is the non-equitable distribution of resources.
A. True
B. False
___26. At what rate is the population rate increasing?
A. Logistically
B. Exponentially
C. Ecstatically
D. Logarithmically
___27. What islands did Charles Darwin observe to create his theory of evolution?
A. Galapagos
B. Caribbean
C. Hawaii
D. Aleutian
___28. What happens when two different species occupy the same niche?
A. The equally share resources
B. They leave each other alone
C. They will directly compete with each other
D. One tries to costume the other
___29. What is the highest level of taxonomy?
A. Phylum
B. Kingdom
C. Family
D. Domain
___30. When predator and prey evolve and change at the same rate, it is known as..
A. Competitive Speciation
B. Competitive Evolution
C. Co-evolution
D. Co-speciation

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___31. What type of relationship has one species benefiting and other unaffected?
A. Commensalism
B. Mutualism
C. Symbiotic
D. Parasitism
___32. What separates secondary succession from primary succession?
A. Organisms are already in place
B. Microbes and Bacteria are already in place
C. Soil levels are already in place
D. There is no difference
___33. What term describes the limit of a species population?
A. Limiting Factors
B. Logistic Growth
C. Carrying Capacity
D. S curve
___34. What biome has high precipitation, a low range of temperature, and high average
temperatures?
A. Temperate Forest
B. Tundra
C. Forest
D. Tropical Rainforest
___35. What biomes have large range of temperatures, little precipitation, and extreme
seasons?
A. Boreal forest
B. Desert
C. Tundra
D. Temperate Grassland
___36. If an area receives less than 10 inches of precipitation in a year, what type of biome is
it?
A. Tundra
B. Tropical Savanah
C. Desert

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 D. Temperate Grassland
___37. Which area would not be best represented by a temperate grassland?
A. The Kalahari
B. Mongolian Steppes
C. Patagonia
D. The Great Plains
___38. Which is only continent to not contain a desert?
A. Asia
B. South America
C. Australia
D. Europe
___39. What is the driest desert in the world?
A. The Gobi (China/Mongolia)
B. The Atacama (Chile)
C. The Sonoran (American Southwest)
D. The Sahara (Africa)
___40. Which area is not best represented by a tropical rainforest?
A. The Yucatan Peninsula
B. The Amazon Basin
C. The Congo
D. Indonesia
___41. Which of the following does NOT affect ocean currents?
A. Marine organisms
B. Prevailing winds
C. Atmospheric temperatures
D. Position of the continents
___42. Subduction occurs:
A. When one tectonic plate slides underneath another.
B. Due to mining activities.
C. On the leeward side of a mountain.
D. Because of the Coriolis effect.
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 areas?
A. Buildings and paved roads don’t absorb water, so run off is significantly greater in
developed areas.
B. Precipitation is usually greater in urbanized areas than in natural areas due to heat
islands.
C. Most urban areas don’t have adequate sewer systems to handle the rain.
D. Urbanized areas are almost always built on floodplains and hence are more prone to
flooding.
___44. The number of different species in a community describes its
A. Threatened species
B. endemic species.
C. invasive species.
D. Species richness.
___45. Even if all burning of fossil fuels was stopped today, why will temperatures continue to
increase?
A. Fossil fuel emissions are not responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect.
B. Greenhouse gases remain in the atmosphere for many years.
C. Deforestation must also be stopped in order for temperatures to decline.
D. Increased methane emissions will more than make up for the difference.

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