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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following human activities affect the biosphere?
Hunting/Gathering
Agriculture
Industrialization/Urbanization
All of these affect the biosphere
- 2. Multiple Choice
True or False: Some groups of humans around the world still follow the hunter/gatherer way of life to some degree.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
What reduced our need to search for food and effectively ended the hunter/gatherer life style?
Industrialization
Sustainable Development
The Green Revolution
Agriculture
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is a monoculture?
A single variety of crop grown year after year.
A single organism that can destroy a field of crops.
A single way of managing all different types of crops.
A yield of crops that can support a single household.
- 5. Multiple Choice
True or False: Fertilizers and pesticides have reduced plant growth.
True
False
- 6. Multiple Choice
What lead to the greed revolution?
Increased food supplies
Monocultures
Agricultural technology
All of these helped lead to the green revolution
- 7. Multiple Choice
True or False: As crop populations increased so did insect populations.
True
False
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is a resource that can regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by biogeochemical cycles if they are nonliving?
Renewable Resources
Nonrenewable Resources
Sustainable Resources
Air Resources
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an example of a nonrenewable resource?
Fossil Fuels/Oil
Coal
Natural Gas
Trees
- 10. Multiple Choice
True or False: The classification of the resource as renewable or nonrenewable is dependent on its context.
True
False
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is a way of using natural resources without depleting them and providing for human needs without causing long term environmental harm?
Ecological Development
Environmental Development
Sustainable Development
Long-Term Development
- 12. Multiple Choice
Soil erosion, or the wearing away of surface soils, along with dry climates, over farming, over grazing, and drought can lead to what event?
Desertification
Deforestation
Habitat Fragmentation
None of these
- 13. Multiple Choice
Deforestation can lead to what?
Sever soil erosion
Change in local soils
Change in microclimates
All of these
- 14. Multiple Choice
The effects of over-fishing can be lessened by what?
Marine hybridization
Aquacultures
Aqua-acceleration
Resource Strengthening
- 15. Multiple Choice
Pollutants in the air can show up in which of the following:
Air - Smog
Water - Acid Rain
Land - Crop Damage
All of these
- 16. Multiple Choice
What will likely happen to endangered species if they are not properly managed?
Increase in biodiversity
Nothing
Extinction
Repopulation
- 17. Multiple Choice
There are many different types of biodiversity, which of the following is NOT one of them that we have studied?
Ecosystem Diversity
Conservationist Diversity
Species Diversity
Genetic Diversity
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a way that humans have negatively impacted plants and animals?
Habitat alteration
Demand for wildlife products
Biological magnification
Conservationism
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is biological magnification?
An increase in the concentration of a harmful substance at higher trophic levels.
An decrease in the concentration of a harmful substance at higher trophic levels.
An increase in the concentration of a harmful substance at lower trophic levels.
An decrease in the concentration of a harmful substance at lower trophic levels.
- 20. Multiple Choice
What is it called when a new organism is introduced to a new habitat and it reproduces rapidly?
Invasive Species
Inclusive Species
Endangered Species
Intrusive Species
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which layer of the atmosphere helps absorb UV radiation?
Troposphere
Thermosphere
Ozone
Stratosphere
- 22. Multiple Choice
While climate natural shifts, human activity leading the the increase average temperature of the biosphere is called what?
Climate Change
Ozone Depletion
Climate Shift
Global Warming
- 23. Multiple Choice
True or False: It is not important to take care of ecosystems, even though they act as reservoirs for organisms and resources.
True
False
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