Environmental Science Quiz 76 (20 MCQs)

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1. All the living and non-living things that interact in an area
2. Birds eat the flies off of a rhino's back in the savannah
3. The variety of life in the world, a habitat, or an ecosystem
4. Which of these factors does NOT affect population growth?
5. What is the term scientists use to describe how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment?
6. What is the most plentiful fossil fuel?
7. The probability of an unwanted outcome is .....
8. To help them survive in the tundra, caribou have various adaptations, such as
9. An example of an renewable resource would be:
10. Water that flows over land and has not been absorbed into the ground.
11. The ..... was the time period when humans began to farm and raise animals.
12. This describes the ratio of water vapor the air contains to the maximum amount it could have at a particular temperature.
13. A kind of forest that consist of tall trees with minimal branches and considered as major source of timber and other major forest products.
14. Which topic might an environmental scientist study?
15. At sea level the troposphere has the highest
16. As water vapor rises, it enters into a colder atmosphere, causing the water to condense into liquid water and clouds are formed
17. All of the following are true of density dependent factors except .....
18. Water move toward areas of ..... salinity.
19. In the Tragedy of the Commons, Hardin is concerned with which of the following:
20. The field of science that focuses on the environmental effects of human activities is called?