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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why is solar energy considered renewable energy?
It's cheaper than fossil fuels
The sun's energy will not run out for billions of years
Solar energy recharges batteries
All of them
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why is the conservation of natural resources important?
because many resources are nonrenewable and are being used up to quickly
because natural resources are all renewable
because many natural resources are inexhaustible
because conservation is practiced by most people
- 3. Multiple Choice
How do fossil fuels affect the environment?
Expensive
Leaves fossils at earth's surface
Causes air pollution when burned
Bonds sediment.
- 4. Multiple Choice
How does population growth affect natural resources?
The more people on the planet, the less natural resources that are available for each person.
The less people on the planet, the less natural resources that are available for each person.
The more people on the planet, the more natural resources that are available for each person.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which group includes ALL renewable resources?
Coal, Trees, Water, Oil
Water, Wind, Sun, Plants
Minerals, Sun, Natural Gas, Water
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of solar energy?
it is cheap to install
it is renewable
it is non-polluting
it can directly heat water
- 7. Multiple Choicewhat is a non renewable resource?waterwindcoalbiomass
- 8. Multiple ChoiceEnergy we get from burning living thingsHydroelectricityWind EnergyBiomass FuelHydrogen Power
- 9. Multiple Choice
The wolf population gets reintroduced to the ecosystem. There is enough deer to go around, so they eat comfortably. The wolf population begins to grow out of control with so much food. The different wolf families then begin to compete for the few caves that exist. Not everyone has good shelter so some have to sleep in the forest floors. What is the limiting factor to the wolves?
Overcrowding
Competition
Weather
Shelter
- 10. Multiple ChoiceIf the number of births in a population is the same as the number of deaths in a population, what will happen to the growth of the population?It will increase.It will decrease.It will stay the same.It will fluctuate.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich type of growth is best illustrated by this rabbit population?exponentiallogisticS-shapedpredator-prey
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhy has the population been able to grow so quickly in such a short period of time?Doctors have developed easier and safer ways to have babiesPeople needed more help to work their farms so they had more childrenBecause people stayed in one place and only moved when crowded outBecause of medical care, clean water and better access to nutritious food
- 13. Multiple Choice
Logistic population growth can be described as
growth when resources are limited
a s-shaped curve
reaching carrying capacity
all of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population? This situation is an example of a _____________ limiting factor.
density-independent
density-dependent
density- too high
density- too low
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these is a MAJOR cause of acid rain?spraying pesticides on cropsburning fossil fuels for energydumping sewage in river systemsusing uranium to generate electricity
- 16. Multiple Choice
What can acid rain corrode?
Statues
Houses
Brick
Trees
- 17. Multiple Choice
What happens when acid rain hits the ground?
Kills the grass
Evaporates
Once acid rain hits the ground it can leech aluminium from soil
Absorbs key nutrients for plants
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe pH scale is a range from:1-70-141-51-20
- 19. Multiple ChoiceA(n) ______ is a substance with a pH less than 7AcidAlkalineBaseBuffer
- 20. Multiple ChoiceHow is acid rain formed?Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide mix with water in the ocean.Carbon dioxide and oxygen mix with water in the air.Sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide mix with lake water.Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide mix with water in the air.
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