WorksheetsOnline Environmental Science Final Exam
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
There is good Ozone and bad Ozone. Good Ozone absorbs almost all the ultra-violet radiation that reaches the Earth. Where is this layer of good Ozone located?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
This term below refers to the extreme weather phenomenon that warms the central and eastern Pacific Ocean in winter months due to unusually weak tradewinds.
El Nino
Hurricane
Tornado
Indian Summer
What is a producer?
Organisms that get their food by eating other organisms
An Organism the break down/decomposes dead organism
Organisms that makes it's own food, grows and supplies energy to others in the food chain/web
An Organism that only eats vegetation, no meat ever.
Which of the following situations best describes the ideal use of a renewable resource?
filling a car with a small gas tank and engine with gasoline and motor oil
building wooden furniture from recycled wood and natural materials
mining copper in with a deep underground mine with flashlights that use renewable batteries
burning coal in a power plant and cleaning up coal dust inside with brooms and vacuums.
Several items are listed below. choose and answer that only lists biotic factors in this image?
water, sunlight, dirt, air
birds, plants and trees
clouds, water, and sky
trees, water and rocks
What is the name of this president who founded Yellowstone National Park?
George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt
Donald J Trump
Barack Obama
If a river is dammed, what effect would this have on the river?
The river ecosystem below the dam would be changed.
The entire river ecosystem would be changed.
The river ecosystem above the dam would be changed.
The river ecosystem would not be changed.
Finding dead fish in a body of water is an indicator of eutrophication. This means...
There are not enough nutrients in the water
The flow rate of water has increased
There is an excess of nutrients in the water
There was too much oxygen in the water
What is true about the conditions of a body of water undergoing eutrophication?
high nutrients; low algae; low oxygen
high nutrients; high algae, low oxygen
low nutrients; high algae; high oxygen
low nutrients; low algae; low oxygen
People get fresh water from
reservoirs
lakes and rivers
pumping groundwater up from aquifers using wells
all of the above
What are the main components of the water cycle?
runoff
transpiration
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
What is the best definition of a water table?
The level to which a river rises when it floods
The boundary between the land and the ocean
The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer
The bottom of the saturated zone in an aquifer
The top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer
What would cause the water table to lower?
High rates of evaporation and transpiration
Low rates of evaporation and transpiration
Increasing amounts of runoff
A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation
Sunlight reacts with waste gases from the burning of fossil fuels to form
greenhouse gases
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
photochemical smog
rain
Which object is NOT carried by runoff into streams and rivers?
ozone
fertilizer
pesticides
sediment
permanently dark layer of the oceans below the photic zone
aphotic zone
photic zone
surface zone
intertidal zone
the earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean
aphotic zone
deep zone
open ocean
continental shelf
Where do you think I will hide?
A ship carrying gasoline runs into shore and spills large amount of gasoline.
Point
Non-Point
The gradual downward flow of water that soaks into surface
river
erosion
infiltration
water uptake
What percentage of water on Earth is salt water?
1%
3%
70%
97%
Which of the following best describes primary succession?
Volcano wipes out ecosystem that gradually grows back from ash covered soil
Volcano creates a new island of rock that must break down to form an ecosystem
Forest fire burns down forest that must bounce back over time
Tornado destroys a crop that must slowly grow back over time.
How do pioneer species compare in primary and secondary succession?
primary starts with grass and weeds, secondary starts with mosses
primary starts with forest fire, secondary starts with volcano
primary starts with a volcano, secondary starts with a forest fire
Lichens and moss in primary, and grasses/ ferns in secondary
The end result of ecological succession is usually a(n)
A.land biome.
B.aquatic biome.
C.unstable community.
D.climax community.
Several years after a building had been torn down and the ground cleared, grasses began to grow in that area. After 10 years, small bushes replaced the grasses. This pattern of plant growth is known as:
Biological
control
Cover cropping
Ecological
succession
Land-use
management
A rock deep within the Earth experiences extreme temperature and pressure. After a long period of time it becomes which rock?
Magma
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
What must happen to a metamorphic rock before it becomes a sedimentary rock rock?
It must be broken down into sediment
It must be melted into magma
Its minerals must dissolve in water
It must be exposed to high temperature and pressure
Based on the law of superposition, what is the order of these rock layers, from oldest to youngest?
1, 2, 3, 4
2, 1, 4, 3
3, 2, 1, 4
4, 3, 2, 1
Leo does an experiment to test how the type of water affects the growth of a plant. Which of the following is NOT a constant?
amount of water
type of plant
type of soil
type of water
Fossils are often found in this rock.
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic
Why do winds change during the day and night near a beach?
The warm air over land sinks and stays there
The warm air over water sinks and stays there
The temperature over air and the land change
Cool air sinks over the land and stays there
Examples are mushrooms and mold
Fungi
Protista
Protista
Plantae
Animalia
Leaking fuel tank: Point source or Nonpoint source?
Point source
Nonpoint source
Both of them
