Environmental Science Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. 2 Which type of mining is associated with disturbing more land?

Correct Answer: A) Surface mining.

2. To achieve and maintain clean air that meets the National Air Quality guidelines.

Correct Answer: A) Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999.

3. To create comprehensive framework for systematically integrating the concept of climate change, in synergy with disaster risk reduction.

Correct Answer: A) Climate Change Act of 2009.

4. The variety of organisms in an area, by species, genes, populations, and communities is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Biodiversity.

5. To ..... is to process used objects so that they can be used again

Correct Answer: B) Recycle.

6. Organisms that cannot make their own food and must obtain energy from external sources are called

Correct Answer: B) Heterotrophs.

7. In scientific experiment, the variable(s) which is/are manipulated is/are

Correct Answer: A) The independent variable.

8. Which of the following pairs are design features that nuclear power plants and coal-fired power plants share?

Correct Answer: B) Turbines and generators.

9. What has happened to human resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

Correct Answer: C) It has increased dramatically.

10. All the members of a species living in the same area at the same time is called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Population.

11. What is the term for the technology that generates electricity when sunlight in semiconductors, causing them to move?

Correct Answer: C) Photovoltaic cells.

12. Climate is different from weather because

Correct Answer: D) Climate is based on long-term averages.

13. Which is a natural activity that increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: C) Cellular respiration.

14. Which of the following is a source of alternative energy?

Correct Answer: D) Hydrogen fuel.

15. This process occurs when species partition, or divide, the resource they use in common by specializing in different ways.

Correct Answer: C) Resource Partitioning.

16. Which of the following is NOT included in a typical age structure diagram?

Correct Answer: C) The population's historical growth.

17. Biodiversity tends to ..... near the equator.

Correct Answer: A) Increase.

18. If a species is brought to an area it is not native to and causes damage it is called an.....

Correct Answer: C) Invasive species.

19. Sound science is based on .....

Correct Answer: C) Replication.

20. Humans lived in tribes, using fires to maintain the prairie

Correct Answer: A) Hunter-gatherer period.