This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Ecology Environment > Studies > Ecology And Environment – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ecology And Environment Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why are Americans warned to avoid drinking the water when visiting developing countries? A) Water in developing countries is discolored. B) Water in developing countries is composed of different elements. C) Water in developing countries may be minimally treated and could cause illness. D) Water in developing countries contains large amounts of chlorine from over treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water in developing countries may be minimally treated and could cause illness. 2. The major cause of acid in rain is industrial activity. This including the burning of ..... A) Burning of coal,. B) Burning of gasoline,. C) Burning of oil. D) All of the above cause acid rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above cause acid rain. 3. Because no one nation owns the earth's atmosphere, there is very little ..... for any one country to keep it clean. A) Money. B) Time. C) Reason. D) Incentive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incentive. 4. After a volcanic eruption, lava covers the land. What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area? A) Lichens $\rightarrow$ tree $\rightarrow$ shrubs$\rightarrow$Grasses. B) Lichens $\rightarrow$ Grasses $\rightarrow$ Shrubs $\rightarrow$ Trees. C) Lichens $\rightarrow$ Shrubs $\rightarrow$ Grasses $\rightarrow$ Trees. D) Grasses $\rightarrow$ Lichens $\rightarrow$ Shrubs $\rightarrow$ Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lichens $\rightarrow$ Grasses $\rightarrow$ Shrubs $\rightarrow$ Trees. 5. Where do you take your plastic bottles? A) Recycling bank. B) Buy-back centre. C) Bin. D) Into rubbish bin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buy-back centre. 6. Decisions about how to protect Earth's atmosphere are made on a ..... level. A) Local. B) Personal. C) National. D) Global. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Global. 7. Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspring A) Extinction. B) Homeostasis. C) Selective Breeding. D) Natural Selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural Selection. 8. What are two ways to add to a population's growth rate? A) Mortality and Emigration. B) Mortality and Natality. C) Immigration and Emigration. D) Natality and Immigration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natality and Immigration. 9. Precipitation is a MAJOR part of which cycle? A) Both nitrogen and water cycles. B) Carbon cycle. C) Nitrogen cycle. D) Water cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both nitrogen and water cycles. 10. What would Earth be like without the greenhouse effect? A) A little warmer than it is now. B) A little cooler than it is now. C) . Too cold to live. D) The same temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) . Too cold to live. 11. Death and decomposition are part of many life cycles. What else helps return nitrogen and carbon to the ground? A) Rain. B) Animal waste. C) DNA. D) Lightning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animal waste. 12. The amount of resources that you use is called your ..... A) Ecological footprint. B) Use / nonuse data. C) Nonrenewable/renewable data. D) Resource debt to use ratio. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecological footprint. 13. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed. A) Competition. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitsm. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitsm. 14. Lions eat gazelle. There are 1000 units of energy in the level of the pyramid with the gazelle. What is the amount of energy at the lion's level? A) 10. B) 100000. C) 100. D) 10000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100. 15. Primary succession begins where there was no ecosystem and no soil such as A) A severe storm. B) A volcanic eruption. C) An old farm is abandoned. D) A forest fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A volcanic eruption. 16. What system classifies climates? A) Mcdonalds numbering system. B) Naperville street system. C) Kelvin Temperature System. D) Koppen Classification System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Koppen Classification System. 17. All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except A) Astronomy. B) Ecology. C) Biology. D) Chemistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Astronomy. 18. Presence of abnormally high concentrations of harmful substances in the environment, often put there by people A) Water Quality. B) Pollution. C) Pollutant. D) Turbidity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 19. Kudzu, a vine covering many acres of North Carolina, was introduced to the United States in 1876 to control erosion. Over the years, scientist found that Kudzu creates problems by rapidly growing and preventing other species from getting sunlight. Which best describes kudzu? A) An invasive, nonnative species. B) An agent of erosion. C) A noncompetitive species. D) An abiotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An invasive, nonnative species. 20. What do scientist call organisms that are not native to an ecosystem and cause harm to native organisms? A) Natural species. B) Invasive species. C) Native plants. D) Invaders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invasive species. 21. Two species of ground squirrels live in the same habitat and eat the same types of seeds. What is the best description of their relationship? A) Commensalism. B) Symbiosis. C) Predator/prey. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition. 22. The most common kind of dispersion in nature is A) Clumped. B) Uniform. C) Random. D) Inderminate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clumped. 23. What climate zone is a rain forest A) C. B) B. C) D. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 24. ..... can be grouped in two categories, point source and nonpoint source. A) Pollution. B) Natural resources. C) Population growth. D) Environmental science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pollution. 25. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria use sunlight to make food A) Autotroph. B) Herbivore. C) Heterotroph. D) Detritovore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autotroph. 26. Secondary succession (thnk soil) forms after a catastrophic event like a forest fire and has a ..... growth rate than primary succession because soil already exists. A) Extremely slower. B) Slower. C) Faster. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faster. 27. A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is consumed is a A) Non-point-source pollutant. B) Renewable resource. C) Non-renewable resource. D) Biodegradable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable resource. 28. What are limiting factors A) The availability to food, water, shelter and space. B) The number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container. C) The highest possible vital index of a species. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The availability to food, water, shelter and space. 29. The presence in or introduction into the air ofa substance, which has harmful or poisonous effects. A) Solid waste pollution. B) Biofuel. C) Sanitation. D) Air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Air pollution. 30. What is a characteristic of a desert? A) Little rain. B) Always cold. C) A lot of rain. D) Always Hot. 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