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Environmental Science Test Questions 1
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Environmental Science Test Questions 1
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1. Looking at Table 12.1, which of the following is a type of natural organic pesticide?
2. With regard to plant produce, the acronym GMO stands for
3. Toxic pollutants trapped indoors and mixed with mold spores has led to
4. Electricity sent out in small amounts to nearby points where it is needed is known as
5. The Earth’s rotation is a major factor in
6. Drainage basins with thousands of streams and rivers draining to them are also called
7. In plate tectonics, colliding plates along a convergent margin often form
8. Chance alterations in the genetic material of a cell’s nucleus are known as
9. Seismographs record earthquake primary waves, secondary waves, and
10. In the biological carbon cycle, the two major processes that play a role in carbon movement are photosynthesis and
11. When rocks of one type are changed into another type by heat or pressure, they become
12. The Staebler-Wronski effect describes
13. Gause’s principle explains that
14. Which layer of the atmosphere is the most active with regard to weather?
15. Frost wedging represents what type of weathering?
16. All organisms need __________ to function.
17. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that nearly three billion people suffer from
18. The overall number of different organisms, species, and ecosystems is called
19. With international timber trade at over $200 billion/year, which of the following three countries produce the most?
20. Due to the problem of storing water and finding shelter from extreme heat, which are the dominant creatures in warm deserts?
21. The rule of 70 is used by researchers to estimate a population’s
22. Life expectancy is the number of years a person is expected to live based upon
23. In 1898, which scientist coined the term radioactivity?
24. Any solid material that settles out from a liquid is known as
25. Of the 439 nuclear power plants worldwide, how many are in the United States?