What is the rule of 70?

70/Annual Percentage Growth Rate

What causes salinization of soil?

Intensive irrigation in dry climates

What is Net Primary productivity?

Gross Primary Productivity-Respiration

What is exponential growth?

A quantity increased at a fixed percentage

These are all reasons amphibians are disappearing besides...

Growth of native predator population

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1
What is a main concern with sanitary landfills?
Air Pollution
Leachate
Soil Degradation
Toxicity
2
What is the rule of 70?
Annual Doubling Time/70
Natural Capital/70
70/Annual Percentage Growth Rate
70/Annual Percentage Doubling Time
3
What causes salinization of soil?
Intensive irrigation in dry climates
Overgrazing
Desertification of Arid Land
Intensive Fertilization in dry climates
4
Mangrove forests are destroyed to build all the following except?
Coastal Cities
Dams
Agriculture
Shrimp Farms
5
What is a regions general pattern of atmospheric conditions over long periods called?
Weather
Climate
Temperature
Precipitation
6
What is spoils?
oil spills
Waste Material from Sewage
Waste material from mining
A result of mountaintop removal
7
What is Net Primary productivity?
Gross Primary Productivity-Respiration
Respiration-Gross Primary Productivity
Respiration-Consumption
Consumption-Respiration
8
What is exponential growth?
A quantity increased at a fixed percentage
A J-Curve
A decreasing unit of measurment
An increase at a varying percentage
9
What would be the most productive way to produce food for the most people?
Monoculture Farming
Only Meat
Only Vegetables
Urban Agriculture
10
A J-Curve do not have a...
Biotic Potential
Population Size
Exponential Growth
Carrying Capacity
11
Which is the best kind of lumbering?
Selective Cutting
Clear-Cutting
Strip Cutting
12
How many sentences for a discuss question on an FRQ?
2-4
1-2
3-5
5-7
13
What does succulent mean?
Prickly
Smooth
Fleshy
Delicious
14
Where do tropical rainforests hold their nutrients?
The Soil
The Plants
The Animals
The Rivers
15
What is the pesticide treadmill?
Humans Poisoning Their Food With DDT
An Example of Co-evolution
An Example of Commensalism
An Example of Overuse of Antibiotics
16
Random changes in DNA molecules are?
Mutations
Carcinogens
Teratogens
Genetic Variability
17
What is the acronym for the biogeochemical cycles?
PATRC
SPFAN
PLBA
CHOMPS
18
What crops were developed to be more productive?
Rice and Corn
Rice and Wheat
Corn and Millet
Corn and Wheat
19
Was this a good quiz? (No Points...Maybe)
No
Yes
20
Which is not a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere?
H2O
Methane
Radon
CO2
21
What is another name for field research?
Remote Sensing
Eco-Analysis
Muddy Boots Research
Ecosystem Search
22
Which fishing practice involves scraping the ocean floor?
drift net
longlining
trawler
purse-seine
23
What Biome covers 30% of the world's land?
Deciduous Forest
Desert
Savanna
Tundra
24
What is the the most useful form of coal?
Anthracite
Peat
Bituminous
Lignite
25
What period did not have a mass extinction?
Ordovician
Devonian
Silurian
Permian
26
Which is needed to sustain life on Earth?
Mr. Jones
Flow of High-Quality Energy
Ecological Niche
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
27
What type of mining is used in flat terrain?
Area Strip Mining
Contour Strip Mining
Open-Pit Mining
Surface Mining
28
Which is not a part of environmental policy?
Identify Problem
Drastic Improvement
Solution Looking
Search for Funding
29
What is a heritable trait that enables an organism to survive?
Adaption
Mutation
Differential Reproduction
Gene Swapping
30
What is an example of IPM?
Sterilization of male pests
Ideal Pesticide
Intensifying Agricultural Production
Using antibiotics
31
What type of lake is lacking in nutrients?
Dead
Degraded
Eutrophic
Oligotrophic
32
These are all reasons amphibians are disappearing besides...
Growth of native predator population
Habitat Loss
Prolonged Drought
Increased ultraviolet radiation
33
Which is not a greenhouse gas?
Methane
H20
Bicarbon
Ozone
34
Which of these is not a moderately developed country?
Singapore
Mexico
Brazil
India
35
A country with a rapid growing population will have which kind of pyramid?
More Females
Large Top
Equal Top and Bottom
Broad Based
36
What is a positive feedback loop?
Tragedy of Easter Island
Compound Interest
Flooding covering the land
Less death due to stable environment
37
What converts solar energy directly into electrical energy?
Hydrogen Power
PV Cells
Thermal Converter
Insulator
38
What is the other name for Superfund?
Brownfield
EPA
NPL
CERCLA
39
What are species that accidentally or purposely are introduced to an area called?
Indicator
Invasive
Killer
Takeover
40
What is SARS?
An Equation
A Respiratory Disease
A Law
A Neurological Disease
41
All Birds Have Feathers-Eagles are Birds-All Eagles Have Feathers
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
42
Which of these is a grassland?
Alpines
Boreal Forest
Taiga
Tundra
43
Where do we live?
Ozone Layer
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Atmosphere
44
Which of these places most likely did not destroy a marine ecosystem in it's development?
Guangzhou, China
Santa Monica, California
Southampton, New York
Bangladesh
45
What part of the water supply is available to humans?
.69%
1.21%
.024%
.98%
46
What is unsafe working conditions?
Cultural Hazard
Chemical Hazard
Physical hazard
47
What is advanced sewage treatment?
Chemical and Biological
Physical and Biological
Chemical
Chemical and Physical
48
What is a good formula to always do with population equations?
Unit Conversions
Rule of 70
BDIE/BIDE
NO/O
49
What is the the proportion of the incident light or radiation that is reflected by a surface?
light refractor
bioluminescence
albedo
white light
50
What is the cite of the world's most serious nuclear power plant accident?
Chernobyl
Fukushima
Yucca Mountain
Three Mile Island
51
What is a tree?
52
Floodplain zones tend to be?
River Deltas
Mountains
Flat valleys
Oxbow Lakes
53
What happened to the people of Bhopal, India?
Nuclear Fusion Plant Failure
Exposure to DDT
Poisoned Drinking Water
Exposure to toxic cloud of pesticides
54
If Logantown has 800 births, 20 Immig., 650 Deaths, and 2 Emig. what is the pop. change?
166
150
168
252
55
What is the third largest killer of all viral diseases?
West Nile Virus
Hepatitis B
AIDS
SARS
56
What is the human issue with grassland?
Controlled Fires
Conversion to Cropland
Large Cities
Mineral Extraction
57
What is the last resort?
Reduce
Repurpose
Recycle
Reuse
58
Which of these is not an atomic building block?
Proton
Nucleus
Nuetron
Electron
59
How is nitrogen made available to living beings?
Nitration
Nitrification
Oxification
Ammonification
60
How many Americans live in urban centers?
80%
90%
70%
20%
61
What are harming bees?
Neurotoxin
Neonicitoids
Mutagens
IPM
62
What causes oceanic ridges?
Convergent Plate Boundary
Earthquakes
Divergent Plate Boundary
Transform Fault
63
What law has the cradle to grave system?
Superfund
CERCLA
RCRA
NPL
64
Which is not a solution to reducing pop growth?
Better Health Care
Reduce unsustainable production and consumption
National Population Policies
Women Protection Agencies
65
What is an option to replace tree cutting?
Riparian
Kenaf
Selective Cutting
Cutting in Non-developed Areas
66
Who is known for exposing DDTs dangerous properties?
The Sea Around Us
Darren Dennis Carlton
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
67
What is Mr. Jones first name?
Josiah
James
Jacob
Joseph
68
What large American body of water has been practically drained from agricultural use?
Ogallala Aquifer
Aral Sea
Hetch Hetchy
Mono Lake
69
How does large amounts of nitric oxide go into the air?
Burning Ammonia
Acid Rain
Burning Fuel
Nuclear Fission Reactors
70
What is the half life formula?
1*2(x)^x
1/2x
2^x/1
1/2^x
71
What is the the risk with the highest death probability?
Nuclear Power Plant
Poverty
Smoking
Fire
72
What is secondary sewage treatment?
Biological
Physical
Chemical
Environmental
73
Which is not a solution to reducing threats from invasive species?
Fund massive research programs to study invasive species
Kill Invasive Species to stop reproduction
Increase Ground Surveys
Identify Harmful Invaderss
74
What is not a problem for urban areas?
Less Opportunities
Noise Pollution
Increased Flooding
Loss of Land
75
How is CO2 converted into glucose?
Aerobic Respiration
Glucosication
Fossil Fuels
Photosynthesis
76
Who is ready for the AP Exam? (Not for points)
I'm Not
I am
77
Growth in a place without soil is an example?
Primary Succession
Secondary Succession
Facilitation
New Growth
78
How much land worldwide is suffering from desertification?
92%
70%
55%
60%
79
What law regulates air pollution?
Emission Clause of the Montreal Protocol
Air Pollution Act of 1986
Kyoto Protocol
Clean Air Act
80
Who regulates the sale and use of pesticides?
CERCLA
EPA
FIFRA
IPM
81
Which kind of forest fire is not controlled?
Ground Fires
Slash and Burn
Wildfire
Crown Fire
82
What produces DMS?
Trioxide Gas
Aerial Biosulfides
Marine Algae
Terrestrial Mammals
83
What companies negligence led to the issues at Love Canal?
Superfund Chemicals
Carter Chemicals
Benzine Mining Co.
Hooker Chemical
84
What are lush vegetation along river beds called?
Nitrate Enrichment
Riparian Zones
Rangeland
Eutrophication
85
What fossil fuel is most commonly used?
Oil
Biomass
Coal
Natural Gas
86
Which of these is a limiting factor?
Nitrogen
Carbon
Sulfur
Phosphorous
87
Which of these is not a point source?
Exhaust from a Car
Drainpipe of a Factory
Fertilizer from a golf course
Smoke from an Industrial Plant
88
What time of the year is the ozone hole at it's greatest extent?
Antarctic Summer
Antarctic Spring
Antarctic Winter
Antarctic Autumn
89
How are CFCs affecting penguin eggs?
Loss of Sea Ice
Migratory Birds
Albedo
Traveling Through the Biosphere
90
What is the process by which certain species survive and others do not?
Darwinism
Natural Selection
Chemical Evolution
Geographical Evolution
91
What is used in the tragedy of the commons?
free-access resources
yield growth
ecological footprint
sustainable yield
92
What is entropy?
A part of the first law of thermodynamics
the amount of matter in an ion
Observed energy
the amount of energy which is unavailable to do work
93
Which is not a way to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy?
tax credit for energy efficiency
phase out nuclear power subsidies
Phase out coal subsidies
phase out hydrogen power subsidies
94
What is the greenhouse effect?
Warming of Troposphere
Cooling of Troposphere
Warming of Stratosphere
Cooling of Stratosphere
95
Which does not live in the benthic zone?
Decomposers
Bloodworms
Detritus Feeders
96
If the old pop. was 845 and the new pop. is 925, what is percent increase?
5%
9%
15%
20%
97
Which of these is not a principle of sustainability?
Reliance on Solar Energy
Lowered Urbanization
Population Control
Biodiversity
98
R-selected species tend to have...
Keystone Species
Specialist Niche
Cyclic Fluctuations
Small Offspring
99
What law protects the wolves of Yellowstone?
Yellowstone Protection Committee
The National Park Agency
Greencorp
US Endangered Species Act
100
Which Brazilian species is an invasive species in the US?
Alligators
Horned Toad
Zebra Mussels
Killer Bees

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