Environmental Science Final Review

Soil provided most, but not all the essential nutrients needed by plants.

Which aspect of soil as a quick indicator of the pasture’s overall fertility?

Incomplete dominance is when there is a _____________ of traits.

A farmer interested in raising healthy crops should look for a

Brachiation is a movement characterized by which motion?

Which of the following would be near the top of a saturated sample of soil

Which statement about the littoral zone in a lake or pond is true?

The amount of which of the following DOES NOT impact color of the soil

Which of the following is not an essential nutrient provided to plants by air

Which of the following is an example of an element that both plants and animals need

Lakes and oceans are transfers of water not stores of water.

Transgenic organisms are organisms that are

Excessive pumping in relation to recharge can cause_______

Infiltration is when water goes into the soil.

As a result of GM plants, what overall trend has occurred in herbicide use?

Conservation of which of the following is dependent on the reduction of pesticide use?

Producers get their food through

Components of the hydrologic cycle include precipitation, condensation, surface runoff, and __.

Which one of the following features is a sure sign of karst?

One of the problematic side effects of pesticide use is the fact that

Transcription converts a gene from DNA to RNA.

Which of the following is NOT a factor that influences soil formation

Which biome would have the lowest net primary production?

Which of the following leads to nitrogen fixation

Arable land is land capable of

What is an artesian well?

Which of the following can contaminate an aquifer?

Which zone of an aquatic ecosystem tends to have the highest temperatures?

What on a plant’s root system allows you to identify that it’ll add nitrogen back to the soil

The best groundwater reservoirs have __________ .

Ecologists use similarities between ecosystems to classify them into broad categories called

Interaction in which individual of one species kills and consumes an individual of another

The process of ________ adds organic matter to the soil.

Glofish, Spider Goats, and Cancer-Resistant Mice are examples of what type of GM

In an urban environment, which of the following is not a factor in altering the water cycle?

Which of the following is NOT a component of DNA?

Water filtering down through bedrock is

The following process is why locations along the Mississippi River contain so many nutrients.

Overall, what has happened to pesticide use over the past 40 years?

A rock containing iron turns red as its surface is exposed to air and water over time.

Process by which water enters the small pore spaces between particles in soil or rocks

The percent of available freshwater is _____ of the total water on the Earth

Selective breeding is the process by which

Soil sample is discovered to be low in nitrogen. What could be done to add nitrogen to the soil

Which type of soil has the highest level of infiltration

Soil sample appears very dark, almost black. It is reasonable to note that this soil is high in

In the Tropical Rain Forests, animals that live in the trees are called

Surface runoff occurs when the precipitation rate is _____ the infiltration rate

Underground water; the water which supplies wells is

Higher yields results in which of the following?

Which of the following is an example of an element that plants need that animals do not

Which of the following materials has the lowest porosity?

Most groundwater withdrawn in the United States is used for ________ .

Boreal Forest are home to which types of trees?

Where rivers flow into the ocean, brackish ecosystems occur which are called

Water only provides two of the essential nutrients needed by plants.

Quaternary consumers tend to be

Deterioration of the soil’s fertility and ability to provide ecosystem services is called

In US food travels 2400 km to reach buyer. 1 alternative to this energy-inefficient practice is

Mitosis is the process by which what is replicated?

Which of the following is an example of inorganic material found in soil

What is the difference between swamps and freshwater marshes?

How does GM plants result in loss of biodiversity?

In Alabama, the soil is red due to the high levels of

The infiltration of water into the subsurface is the __________ .

Animals living in the desert have adapted to living in very harsh conditions.

To help them survive in the tundra, caribou have various adaptations, such as

What is DNA’s BEST known function?

Which word does not describe a term in the hydrological cycle?

Relative proportions of sand, silt, and clay determine which property of soil

Primary consumers tend to be

The boundary between the saturated zone and the unsaturated zone is called the______ .

An example of soil parent material is

For optimal plant growth, plants prefer which type of soil

The following is an example of physical weathering

Giraffes, lions, zebras, hyenas, and all the other living things of the Serengeti make up a(n)

Which problem is not caused by groundwater withdrawal?

Quaternary consumers are also called

The percentage of a rock's total volume that is taken up by pore space is called the _______ .

When the environment changes too quickly for an organism to adapt, what will occur?

How much of the Earth's water is stored in underground aquifers?

The Savanna is characterized by

Organic Agriculture’s main purpose is to

Why are feedlots so prevalent today?

What powers the hydrologic cycle?

Company against use of fertilizers. What can they do to increase their nitrogen levels

Which of the following is an example of quantitative data?

Chaparral is characterized as

Why do shorter trees and plants in understory of tropical rain forests have large, flat leaves?

Which of the following is not a variable in the Darcy’s Law equation?

Which of the following is not a factor resulting in undernourishment?

While human population continues to grow, one of the following will not

Prairie Dogs are commonly found in which biome?

A seed bank is used for

California imports most of its water supply. What is most of the water used for?

Topsoil is found in which layer of soil?

Climate impacts soil formation in which of the following ways

Tertiary consumers eat

Water with a salinity that is greater than freshwater but less than saltwater is classified as

Blue eyes=xx. Parent 1=brown eyes (Xx) Parent 2=blue eyes (xx) what % child have blue eyes?

Autotrophs are

The process by which plants lose water through small openings in leaves.

The Hydrological Cycle is the same as the water cycle.

Which soil breakdown displays loam soil?

In order to be characterized as a desert, it must receive how much rainfall per year?

Criteria such as salinity depth and water is flowing or standing are used by scientist to

A food desert is an area where

Withdrawing water from an aquifer can affect the depth to the local water table

The water which falls to Earth after condensing into either rain or snow.

Which of the following is an example of codominance?

GM foods are engineered to resist herbicides so that

Which steps are usually near the beginning of a scientific investigation?

Most of the nutrients in soil come from

The Seralini Study showed which of the following side effects of GMOs?

A company request a soil profile from a geologist. What are they wanting to see?

Groundwater is ______________ to clean up pollutants than surface water.