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Environmental Science Mid-Term Review
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This is a mid-term review for my academic environmental science class
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These are many-celled organisms that make their own food using the sun's energy
Bacteria
Fungi
Plant
Protist
2
What is a mean?
The medium.
The average.
The distribution
The range.
3
What is the source of energy for almost all organisms?
The sun
Sugar
Air
Water
4
This is the reason why different breeds of dog, like the Chihuahua, exist
Evolution
Artificial selection
Coevolution
Natural selection
5
What organisms are examples of decomposers?
Fungi
Bacteria
Protists
Plants
6
The reformation of the ecosystem after the eruption of Mt. St. Helen is an example of...
Old-field succession
Secondary succession
Primary succession
7
Nitrogen makes up what percentage of the Earth's atmosphere?
10%
78%
0.04%
60%
8
This biome is typically found near the equator
Savanna
Tropical Rainforest
Temperate Rainforest
Tundra
9
What is the ability of one or more organisms to tolerate a particular chemical.
Intolerance
Coevolution
Pesticide
Resistance
10
What term refers to the number and variety of species that live in an area?
Species
Organism
Biodiversity
Habitat
11
Environmental science is the study of the interactions of humans with the natural environment.
True
False
12
What impact did Hunter-Gatherers have on the environment?
Domesticated animals
Domesticated plants
Settled in one area
Over-hunted large mammals
13
Which is an example of a pioneer species?
Large oak
Grass
Small tree
Shrubs
14
What factors are represented in a climatogram
Latitude
Precipitation
Altitude
Temperature
15
Which of the following would be subject to primary succesion?
An abandoned farm
A forest that has been cut down
A forest that has been burned down
A rock exposed by a retreating glacier
16
What was a positive outcome of the Industrial Revolution?
Habitat destruction.
Increased pollution
Decreased productivity
Improved medical care and nutrition
17
This biome features fertile soil where a majority of our food is grown.
Taiga
Tropical Rainforest
Grasslands
Deciduous Forest
18
The picture below represents....
Food chain
Food web
Trophic levels
Energy pyramid
19
This is the distance north or south of the equator
Latitude
Longitude
20
This is an organism that eats both plants and animals.
Carnivore
Producer
Omnivore
Herbivore
21
What factor has contributed to the increase in the world's population over the last 200 years?
All the above
Medical advances
Improved hygiene and sanitation
The expansion of agriculture
22
What is NOT an example of a renewable resource?
Air
Coal
Fresh water
Trees
23
This biome receives little precipitation and experience very warm temperatures.
Desert
Tundra
Temperate Rainforest
Taiga
24
Who developed the concept of Evolution by Natural Selection?
Ms. Zebedeo
Marco Polo
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
25
What is each step in an energy pyramid called?
Food chain
Energy level
Food web
Trophic level
26
What is the process plants use to produce their own food?
Nitrogen Fixation
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Respiration
27
Which country is more likely to have a rapidly increasing population?
France
The United States
India
Australia
28
What percentage of energy is passed on from one trophic level to the next?
10%
90%
100%
1%
29
This biome has the most biodiversity found on Earth.
Grassland
Desert
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
30
Which is an example of an organism?
Your classroom.
A pack of wolves
You dog.
The ants invading your picnic.
31
Which is an example of a biodegradable pollutant?
Mercury
Lead
Plastic
Newspaper
32
What is the chance that something will happen?
Probability.
The mean.
Risk
Correlations.
33
These are animals that lack a backbone
Vertebrates
Invertebrates
34
Another name for an autotroph is...
Consumer
Producer
Decomposer
Heterotroph
35
These are flowering plants that produce seeds in fruit
Gymnosperms
Evergreen trees
Deciduous forest
Angiosperms
36
Why do scientists use correlations?
All the above.
It's unethical to study.
It's impossible to study.
It happened too long ago for us to study.
37
The first trophic level is made up of
Producers
Primary consumers
Secondary consumers
Tertiary consumers
38
Which is NOT a biotic factor found in an ecosystem?
Plants
Dead leaves
Animal waste
Water
39
What is a change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next
Evolution
Hereditary traits
Adaptation
Natural selection
40
What is another name for the Taiga?
Desert
Chaparral
Coniferous Forest
Tropical Rainforest
41
The cells of animals, plants, fungi, and protist contain a nucleus. Therefore they are...
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
Autotrophs
Heterotrophs
42
This is a large region characterized by specific climate and types of plants and animals
Ecosystem
Community
Biome
43
This is the biome we live in.
Deciduous Forest
Taiga
Grasslands
Temperate Rainforest
44
Which country is likely to have individuals with a high ecological footprint?
The United States
Sri Lanka
Indonesia
Ethiopia
45
Which kingdom contains organisms whose cells have nuclei, cell walls, but NO chlorophyll
Animal
Fungi
Protist
Plant
46
What organism converts nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use?
Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria
Producers
Phosphorus Cycle
Decomposers
47
Secondary succession would most likely occur at which location?
On a glacier
In the desert
On volcanic rock.
A forest destroyed by a fire.
48
What are some characteristics of the agricultural revolution?
Domestication of animals
Development of farmland
All the above
Growing and caring of plants
49
You can go on a wild safari in this biome.
Savanna
Desert
Tundra
Tropical Rainforest
50
Which is NOT a model used to tell us about the environment?
Physical Model
Imaginary Model
Graphical Model
Mathematical Model
51
State when human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely?
Resource Depletion
Ecological Footprint
Consumption
Sustainability
52
Which is NOT one of the world's biomes?
Taiga
Savanna
Arctic
Chaparral
53
Which is NOT one of the three major environmental concerns of today?
Loss of biodiversity
Pollution
Ocean acidification
Resource depletion
54
The climate of a biome depends upon...
Size of biome
Types of vegetation
Precipitation
Temperature
55
This is a group of organisms of the same species living in a specific geographic location
Community
Population
Ecosystem
Species
