Ecology And Environment Quiz 4 (30 MCQs)

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1. Why are Americans warned to avoid drinking the water when visiting developing countries?
2. The major cause of acid in rain is industrial activity. This including the burning of .....
3. Because no one nation owns the earth's atmosphere, there is very little ..... for any one country to keep it clean.
4. After a volcanic eruption, lava covers the land. What is the order that plants grow to repopulate the area?
5. Where do you take your plastic bottles?
6. Decisions about how to protect Earth's atmosphere are made on a ..... level.
7. Organisms that are better adapted to the environment survive to pass traits to their offspring
8. What are two ways to add to a population's growth rate?
9. Precipitation is a MAJOR part of which cycle?
10. What would Earth be like without the greenhouse effect?
11. Death and decomposition are part of many life cycles. What else helps return nitrogen and carbon to the ground?
12. The amount of resources that you use is called your .....
13. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
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?
15. Primary succession begins where there was no ecosystem and no soil such as
16. What system classifies climates?
17. All of these fields of study contribute to environmental science except
18. Presence of abnormally high concentrations of harmful substances in the environment, often put there by people
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?
20. What do scientist call organisms that are not native to an ecosystem and cause harm to native organisms?
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?
22. The most common kind of dispersion in nature is
23. What climate zone is a rain forest
24. ..... can be grouped in two categories, point source and nonpoint source.
25. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria use sunlight to make food
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.
27. A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which it is consumed is a
28. What are limiting factors
29. The presence in or introduction into the air ofa substance, which has harmful or poisonous effects.
30. What is a characteristic of a desert?