Environmental Science Culminating Assessment

What is the name of the process that causes land to becomes more extremely dry like a desert because of human activity or climate change?

• Erosion
• Desertification
• Salinization
• Compost

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Energy can be classified into two major categories

• Renewable and non renewable
  
• Natural and non renewable
• Renewable and Natural
  
• All of them

A natural resource that is naturally formed much more slowly than we use it is called

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• sustainable

• ecological

Which of the following is an example of a nonrenewable natural resource?

• wind energy

• natural gas

• geothermal energy

• sunlight

What is the term for organisms, including plants and algae, that create their own food?

• consumers

• producers

• legumes

• decomposers

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which is NOT a process of the water cycle?

• precipitation
• freezing
• transpiration
• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Level 1 on the pyramid

• Producers

• Primary Consumer

• Secondary Consumer

• Tertiary Consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is an herbivore?

• An organism that only eats plants for energy
• An organism that eats animals for energy
• An organism that eats both plants and animals for energy.

What are "trophic levels"?

• Levels in a food web/food chain
• Levels of land in a mountain
• Animal diets

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which of these keeps prey populations under control?

• apex predator
• zebra
• producer
• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4