CP Environmental Exam Review Fall 2021

CP Environmental Exam Review Fall 2021

by Amanda Duncan

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Float near the surface of the water

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

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Are free-swimming organisms

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

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Are bottom-dwelling organisms

• Plankton

• Nekton

• Benthos

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Eutrophication is an increase in

• the amount of sunlight in a lake

• the amount of nutrients in a lake

• the amount of pollution in a lake

• the temperature of a lake

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Eutrophication happens naturally, but can be accelerated by

• an increase in the number of fish

• fertilizer and pesticide runoff

• decomposition

• high temperatures

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What has been done in order to preserve our wetlands?

• Many fences have been built around them

• They have been drained and developed

• Laws have been passed to protect them

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An estuary

• Is another name for a saltwater marsh

• Is an area where freshwater and saltwater mix

• Is not a productive ecosystem

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Why are estuaries are more susceptible to pollution?

• Rivers carry wastes downstream

• They exist in populated areas

• Sunlight cannot break pollution down

• Freshwater and saltwater mix there

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Coral polyps are predators that do not chase their prey.

• True

• False

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What is the biggest threat to coral reef habitats worldwide?

• Predators

• Human activity

• Zooplankton

• Erosion

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Where is most ocean life found?

• Near the surface of the open ocean

• In shallow, coastal waters

• In the deepest parts of the ocean

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Why do arctic ecosystems depend on marine ecosystems?

• All of the food comes from the ocean

• All of the freshwater is frozen

• Plankton cannot survive such cold temperatures

• The human population is using all the land resources.

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What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?

• Industrial Revolution

• development of agriculture

• bubonic plague

• human settlement began

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Which combination of factors will produce the highest rate of population growth?

• high life expectancy and high infant mortality

• low life expectancy and low infant mortality

• low life expectancy and high infant mortality

• high life expectancy and low infant mortality

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The richest one fifth of the world's people uses what percent of the world's resources?

• 5

• 20

• 43

• 86

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Diagram used to show population ages and M:F ratios

• age structure diagrams.

• life expectancy diagrams.

• demographic diagrams.

• infant mortality diagrams.

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In recent years, the human population has

• increased exponentially.

• decreased exponentially.

• decreased slowly.

• increased slowly.

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Humans are generally

• carnivores

• herbivores

• omnivores

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Any being that uses the sun’s energy to create sugars is a

• producer

• secondary consumer

• primary consumer

• apex predator

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An organism that depends on another without killing it is a predator.

• True

• False

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A nation where most of the people eat a primarily vegetarian diet will be able to support a lower population than it would if the people ate a lot of meat.

• True

• False

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Yearly weather patterns in Earth’s atmosphere such as rainfall and temperature describe

• Climate

• Climatograph

• Weather

• Biome

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Which biome has the most diverse plant life?

• savanna

• taiga

• tropical rainforest

• desert

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What kind of plants will grow in an area with lots of rain and high temperatures?

• short shrubs

• tall trees

• grasses

• cactuses

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Which biome gets less than 25 cm of rain each year?

• desert

• temperate grassland

• chaparral

• savanna

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Which biome has been affected by human activity?

• desert

• all of them!

• chaparral

• savanna

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Coldest biome

• tundra

• desert

• tropical rainforest

• savanna

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Driest biome

• tundra

• desert

• tropical rainforest

• savanna

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Wettest biome

• tundra

• desert

• tropical rainforest

• savanna

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Cactus and succulent plants

• temperate deciduous forest

• tropical rainforest

• desert

• savanna

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Cactus and succulent plants

• temperate deciduous forest

• tropical rainforest

• desert

• savanna

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Giant trees, leafy plants and epiphytes

• temperate deciduous forest

• tropical rainforest

• desert

• savanna

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Nonrenewable energy resources such as coal, natural gas and oil.

• sustainable

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

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A measure of the environmental effects of an individual or population in terms of land and water needed for consumption and waste disposal.

• sustainable

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

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A practice that can continue at the same rate into the foreseeable future.

• sustainable

• fossil fuels

• ecological footprint

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

• It has remained at the same level.

• It has decreased only slightly.

• It has increased dramatically.

• It has decreased dramatically.

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Environmental policy is based only on scientific information.

• True

• False

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Matter that organisms require for their life processes are called

• legumes.

• decomposers.

• fertilizers.

• nutrients.