Final Exam Review Quiz

What is an example of a non-renewable energy source?

• Sunlight

• Wind

• Oil

________ energy sources cannot be replaced quickly.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

The water cycle is driven by

• water

• wind

• the sun

• Earth's rotation

When water turns to vapor and rises into the atmosphere from the ocean, it is called

• condensation

• transpiration

• evaporation

• sublimation

What is the only process that removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• combustion
• cellular respiration
• photosynthesis
• decomposition

Animals use O₂ in the process of _____ to make more CO₂

• photosynthesis

• fermentation

• cellular respiration

• decomposition

Excess phosphates from fertilizer runoff can

• be used to synthesize lipids.

• be absorbed directly by phosphate rock.

• be decomposed and returned to large bodies of water.

• provide nutrients for algal blooms, which can cause eutrophication.

Describing the cycling of elements between living organisms and the non-living environment.

• Chemical

• Biological

• Geological

• Biogeochemical

78% of the Earth's atmosphere is ___________ and 21% of the Earth's atmosphere is _____________.

• Oxygen, Nitrogen

• Nitrogen, Oxygen

• Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

In the troposphere, the temperature _____ as altitude increases.

• Increases

• Decreases

• Stays the same

• Goes up and down