Environmental Science Formative Assessment

The environment contains:

• living things only
• nonliving things only
• both living and nonliving things
  both living and nonliving things
• only artificial things

Which of the following is NOT an example of a natural resource?

• coal
• sunlight
• timber
• plastic

Which of the following is ALWAYS a nonrenewable natural resource?

• wind
• freshwater
• oil
• soil

Which of the Earth's spheres encompasses all of the Earth's water?

• the hydrosphere
• the atmosphere
• the asthenosphere
• the geosphere

The crust, mantle, asthenosphere, and core are part of Earth's

• atmosphere
• biosphere
• hydrosphere
• geosphere

An organism that must get nutrients by eating other organisms is called a

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer
• nitrifying bacteria

The phosphourous cycle involves mainly the

• atmosphere and hydrosphere
• lithosphere and hydrosphere
• geosphere and biosphere
• asthenosphere and hydrosphere

Which of the following describes a population that is distributed evenly across an area?

• random
• clumped
• uniform
• crowded

A group of individuals that interbreed and produce fertile offspring is a common definition for

• ecology
• species
• population
• community

Which of the following terms describes seasonal movement of individuals into and out of a population?

• immigration
• emigration
• natality
• migration