AP Environmental Science Exam

This was the most horrific mercury poisoning incident the world has seen.

• Love Canal

• Three Mile Island

• Minamata Disaster

• Bhopal Disaster

The Tragedy of the Commons

• Thomas Malthus

• Garrett Hardin

• Paul Ehrlich

• Norman Borlaug

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Which describes the situation that any resource open to everyone will eventually be overused and depleted because everyone can use the resource but no one is responsible for it?

• “Tragedy of the Commons”

• Sustainability

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

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The study of environmental science primarily considers

• interactions among human systems and those found in Earth

• the effect of human systems

• abiotic factors that influence the state of our environment

• factors that affect global climate change

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Place the ecology levels of organization in proper order (smallest to largest)

• organism > population > community > ecosystem > biosphere

• community > organism > ecosystem > biosphere > population

• organism > community > biosphere > population > ecosystem

• population > biosphere > ecosystem > community > organism

Which best describes the concept of net primary production?

• total amount of energy available from the Sun

• total amount of cellular respiration conducted within an ecosystem

• energy captured minus energy lost

• total amount of energy available from the producer

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In which biome would you expect to find an area with an average temperature of 10^oC and 200 cm of precipitation annually?

• Temperate seasonal forest

• Temperate rainforest

• Woodland/shrubland

• Tropical seasonal forest

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Which biome is characterized by the presence of permafrost?

• temperate seasonal forest

• woodland/shrubland

• tundra

• boreal forest

Terrestrial biomes are defined by ____ and ____ variables.

• temperature; precipitation

• temperature; animals

• precipitation; plants

• animals; plants

Which of the following has a negative impact on biodiversity?

• Accidental introduction of invasive species

• Burning fossil fuels

• Burning the Amazon forest

• Population growth

• Overconsumption

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