Worksheets2nd Semester E. Science
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 47mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What prediction have scientists made about modern extinction rates of species?
a)
20% gone
b)
all gone
c)
half gone
d)
remain the same
2.
What would be considered habitat fragmentation?
a)
a river tigers have to cross
b)
a mountain separating 2 populations of tigers
c)
tigers living in different family groups in the same jungle
d)
tigers killing each other for food
3.
Not making the Dominican Repulic pay back a loan if they agree to protect biodiversity is?
a)
mass extirpation
b)
species survival plan
c)
wildlife corridor
d)
debt for nature swap
4.
what biome has the highest net primary production?
a)
savanna
b)
boreal forest
c)
coral reef
d)
desert
5.
What aquatic zone supports the most organisms?
a)
aphotic zone
b)
photic zone
c)
benthic zone
d)
all the same
6.
A wetland entirely covered in thick floating mass of vegitation
a)
bog
b)
marsh
c)
swamp
d)
field
7.
Risk assesment
a)
creating a plan to control environmental damage
b)
board game about animals fighting
c)
finding the most possible protections
d)
measuring chance a hazard will cause environmental harm
8.
Which of the following is the hardest to control?
a)
high fat diet
b)
industrial pollution
c)
smoking cigarettes
d)
lack of exercise
9.
A substance posing a chemical hazard
a)
VOC
b)
allergen
c)
carcinogen
d)
toxicant
10.
Asbestos, radon, VOCs, carbon monoxide, and lead all:
a)
can be found indoors
b)
are dangerous carcinogens
c)
cannot be prevented to exposure
d)
are only made by humans
11.
Renewable resources are all but
a)
timber
b)
water
c)
coal
d)
animals
12.
What approach has to be the most flexible?
a)
maximum sustainalble yield
b)
ecosystem based management
c)
adaptive management
d)
command and control
13.
What is true of national forests in the US?
a)
can only be used for recreation
b)
can only be harvested by government agencies
c)
can be harvested if soil is not damaged
d)
must have roads in place wherever there is havesting
14.
Fires set on purpose by humans.
a)
prescribed burns
b)
destroy old growth forests every time
c)
never get out of conctrol
d)
fire break
15.
no atmosphere or greenhouse gasses would result in?
a)
all the sun's heat reflected back into space
b)
radiation all absorbed by the earth
c)
no change at all
d)
earth would fall out of orbit
16.
what produces the most population growth
a)
high life expectancy high infant mortality
b)
low life expectancy low infant mortality
c)
low life expectancy high infant mortality
d)
high life expectancy low infant mortality
17.
What is a populations fertility rate?
a)
average number of men
b)
average children per family unit
c)
average # of children a woman has in her life
d)
total number of babies born
18.
put in the correct order.
a)
pre industrial, industrial, post industrial, transitional
b)
pre industrial, transitional, industrial, post industrial
c)
transitional, pre industrial, industrial, post industrial
d)
post industrial, transitional, industrial, pre
19.
What usually happens during a societies transitional period?
a)
Birth rates fall
b)
Death rates fall
c)
birth rates increase
d)
death rates increase
20.
The richest one fifth of the world's population use what percent of the world's resources?
a)
5
b)
20
c)
60
d)
86
21.
What should we always strive to do when considering environmental issues?
a)
be as green as possible
b)
balance environmental issues with economic issues
c)
let business decide for itself
d)
live in dirt huts
22.
Which mining method is most likely to destroy wildlife habitat?
a)
surface mining
b)
strip mining
c)
solution mining
d)
placer mining
23.
what is the best way to control erosion after strip mining?
a)
replace removed soil
b)
plant plants
c)
let land recover on its own
d)
add tailing areas
24.
large quantities of tailings are permanently stored in?
a)
surface tunnels
b)
open pits
c)
mountaintops
d)
impoundment dams
25.
Energy of motion
a)
kinetic
b)
potential
c)
chemical
d)
electrical
26.
Cell phone charging at home is considered
a)
transportation energy
b)
residential energy
c)
industrial energy
d)
commercial energey
27.
What is the easiest way for you to protect the environment?
a)
reuse instead of throwing away
b)
use a composting toilet
c)
design a town recycling program
d)
install solar panels
28.
In the primary extraction of oil,
a)
oil rises to the surface without being pumped
b)
water is pumped into the ground to force the oil to the surface
c)
chemicals are used to dissolve the oil and bring it to the surface
d)
carbon dioxide is pumped beneath oil deposits
29.
How is natural gas transported from its source to where it is used?
a)
truck
b)
ship
c)
railroad tanker cars
d)
pipelines
30.
If fossil fuels continue to be used at their current rate,which will probably be used up first?
a)
coal
b)
oil
c)
natural gas
d)
methane hydrate
31.
Although acid drainage can be a natural process, it speeds up when an area is strip mined because strip mining
a)
exposes large areas of new rock surface
b)
removes large amounts of rock
c)
releases lage amounts of coal dust, which forms acid drainage
d)
exposes underground water, which combines with minerals to form acid.
32.
When you roast marshmallows over a campfire, you are using
a)
biofuel energy
b)
geothermal energy
c)
biomass energy
d)
solar energy
33.
A characteristic of ground source heat pumps is that
a)
they use heated underground rocks
b)
underground soil temperature remains constant year round
c)
they do not use water
d)
heat does not have to be transferrred
34.
At the present time, the best and least expensive way to produce hydrogen fuel is by
a)
the electrolysis of water
b)
the breakdown of methane
c)
nuclear fission
d)
reaction of algae
35.
What is used to absorb heat in a flat plate solar collector?
a)
A photovoltaic cell
b)
glass panes
c)
a heat pump
d)
a metal plate
36.
A rock containing iron truns red as its surface is exposed to air and water over time. This is an example of
a)
physical weathering
b)
chemical weathering
c)
primary succession
d)
decomposition
37.
Most of the nutrients in soil come from
a)
chemical weathering
b)
mechanical weathering
c)
erosion
d)
decomposition
38.
Providing water by way of human constructed structures is known as
a)
precipitation
b)
irrigation
c)
salinization
d)
fertilization
39.
What percntage of the atmosphere is composed of oxygen?
a)
12
b)
21
c)
58
d)
78
40.
Pollutants are removed or changed chemically before they leave factory smokestacks by a(n)
a)
chlorofuorocarbon
b)
scrubber
c)
inversion
d)
catalytic converter
41.
What is one of the primary factors that draws people from rural areas to urban areas?
a)
less pollution
b)
more jobs
c)
more open space
d)
heat islands
42.
Which of the following has caused an increase in the per capita land consumption?
a)
few and poor roads
b)
low urban crime rates
c)
expensive rural land
d)
Internet based technologies
43.
Sprawl increases carbon dioxide emissions by
a)
generating more factories
b)
increasing the need to drive
c)
resulting in more tree growth
d)
expanding the use of public transportation.
44.
Which of the following is a principle of smart growth?
a)
promoting a mix of land uses
b)
focusing development outside of existing urban centers
c)
creating neighborhoods best suited for cars
d)
building out, not up
45.
Which of the following statements about greenways is true?
a)
They only benefit humans
b)
they limit the movement of wildlife
c)
they decrease property values
d)
they protect water quality
46.
Which statement about sustainalbe cities is true
a)
They can help improve the standard of living for residents
b)
no major cities have made significant progress toward sustainability yet
c)
they are only successful in developed world
d)
they often help encourage sprawl
47.
Non-liquid waste that comes from homes, institutions, and small businesses is called
a)
industrial waste
b)
hazardous waste
c)
municipal solid waste
d)
compost waste
48.
The scraps of wood left over during the production of household and office furniture would be considered
a)
industrial waste
b)
wastewater
c)
municipal solid waste
d)
hazardous waste
49.
What are the two primary methods of waste recovery?
a)
surface impoundment and deep well injection
b)
incinerating and open air burning
c)
recycling and composting
d)
sanitary landfills and open dumps
50.
Only a very small portion of Earth's water is both liquid and
a)
fresh
b)
salty
c)
frozen
d)
undergournd
51.
Drainage basins are sometimes called
a)
monsoons
b)
runoffs
c)
groundwaters
d)
watersheds
52.
To conserve water, what is the best time of day to water a lawn or garden? (think least amount of evaporation)
a)
early evening
b)
afternoon
c)
morning
d)
night
53.
Species richness generally increases toward the poles
a)
True
b)
False- North
c)
False - Equator
d)
False - end of the month
54.
Most scientists agree that cloning provides much help to prevent biodiversity loss.
a)
true
b)
false - less
c)
false - extreme
d)
false - purple
55.
On a biome map, patches representing the same biome tend to occur at similar longitudes.
a)
true
b)
false- times
c)
false- latitudes
d)
false - land masses
56.
The populations of many fishes have decreased because the fishing industry has become highly mechanized.
a)
true
b)
false - increased
c)
false - stayed the same
d)
false - proprotional
57.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is decreasing.
a)
true
b)
false- increasing
c)
false - staying the same
d)
false - experimental
58.
Other factors aside, an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide would be likely to increase the amount of vegetation.
a)
true
b)
false- decrease
c)
false -not impact
d)
false -falsify
59.
Since the 1960s the human population growth rate has increased.
a)
true
b)
false- decreased
c)
false- stayed level
d)
false- exploded
60.
The Mohs scale is a measure of the luster of a mineral
a)
true
b)
false - brightness
c)
false - color
d)
false - hardness
61.
biodisesel is a biofuel that is used as a supplement to power gasoline engines in cars.
a)
true
b)
false- methane
c)
false- ethonol
d)
false- hydrogen
62.
The ozone layer is found withing the troposphere.
a)
true
b)
false- stratosphere
c)
false-methoshere
d)
false-hydrosphere
63.
The vast grasslands that once covered the middle of North America have mainly been replaced by parks and forest land.
a)
true
b)
false- airports
c)
false- cities
d)
false -farmland
64.
Consumers can help reduce the waste by choosing goods with more packaging.
a)
true
b)
false- less
c)
false-artificial
d)
false-colorful
65.
Construction standards for hazardous waste landfills are more lenient than those for ordinary sanitary landfills.
a)
true
b)
false- open
c)
false- strict
d)
false-blue
66.
Sewage pouring out of a pipe into a river would be considered point-source pollution.
a)
true
b)
false- atmospheric
c)
false- open
d)
false-
67.
Most of the oil released into the oceans by human activity comes from tanker spills.
a)
true
b)
false- seaweed
c)
false- sewage
d)
false- runoff
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