Environmental Science Summary Quiz 101

During the agricultural revolution,

• plants and animals were domesticated
• fossil fuel increased
• human populations decreased due to disease
• nothing significant happened

How did the Himalayas Mountains form?

• erosion
• convection
• glacial movements
• colliding tectonic plates

Without the greenhouse effect, Earth's atmosphere would be ______ to support life.

• too hot
• too cold
• too wet
• lacking oxygen

Which of the following best describes the use of a renewable resource?

• filling a car with gasoline
• building wooden furniture
• mining copper
• burning coal in a power plant

What are wind and water erosion not likely to affect?

• mountains
• rocks
• tides
• soil

________ is a biodegradable material that becomes a pollutant if allowed to accumulate more rapidly than it can decompose.

• plastic
• mercury
• newspaper
• metal from junk cars

All of the following issues involve environmental science except...

• measuring smog level in cities
• asking people questions about the cost of various responses
• studying the loss of plant and animal species
• publishing the results of a study on fossil fuel depletion

The "Tragedy of the Commons" describes the conflict between...

• developing and developed nations
• farmers and industrialized society
• individuals and society
• Canada and Mexico

The term 'biodiversity' refers to...

• the number of species living on Earth
• the number of variety of species living on Earth
• the number and variety of species that are considered renewable
• the number and variety of species that live in an area

An ecological footprint is the...

• mark of a person's shoe makes in soft Earth
• number of animals a person has killed
• amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person
• number of trees people cut down