GE6200 - Environmental Science

Long Quiz 001

This idea proposes that life has greatly influenced the global environment, changing it and
improving the chances for the survival of the species.
Select one:
a. Gaia hypothesis
b. Sustainability
c. Human population growth
d. Precautionary principle

What are the highest trophic level that feed on dead organic materials?
Select one:
a. Decomposer
b. Humans
c. Herbivores
d. Carnivores

What is the study of the interaction among the organism and their environment?
Select one:
a. Biology
b. Sociology
c. Ecology
d. Ecosystem

Which does not refer to the precautionary principle?

Select one:
a. It may be applied while still gathering scientific evidence.
b. Life has greatly influenced the global environment.
c. It is applied to prevent adverse effects to the health of the environment and the organisms
living in it.
d. Even without full scientific proof, necessary precautionary principles should be employed.

Which major topic of environmental science refer to providing the same resources for future
generations?
Select one:
a. Urbanization
b. Science and values
 c. Human population growth
d. Sustainability

The more complex linkages of food chains are called food webs.
Select one:
True
False

This term refers to outputs of a system affecting its inputs.

Select one:
a. Open system
b. Feedback
c. Equilibrium
d. Loop

It is said to be the underlying reason of environmental problems.

Select one:
a. Sustainability
b. Urbanization
c. Human population growth
d. Science and values

When populations exceed the environment's carrying capacity, what will most likely happen?
Select one:
a. Populations will decline
b. Populations will overshoot and collapse
c. Populations will continue to grow
d. Population numbers will fluctuate before stabilizing

What refers to the dynamic complex of plants, animals and microorganism communities and
non-living elements interacting as a functional unit?
Select one:
a. Population
b. Ecosystem
c. Community
d. Biology
It is a set of components, or parts that function together as a whole. Examples of this ranges from
the human body to cities to earth.
Select one:
a. System
b. Closed system
c. Static system
d. Open system

Ecosystems support all forms of life

Select one:
a. No,they do not have life.
b. No,they do not support life.
c. True,because they are created like that
d. True,because ecosystem is composed of everything on the planet

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field which integrates both physical sciences and
social sciences.
Select one:
True
False

What refers to the chain where energy, chemical elements and compounds are transferred from
one creature to another?
Select one:
a. Energy chains
b. Food webs
c. Pathways
d. Food chains

Autotrophs consist of all green organisms, be it plant or animal.

Select one:
True
False

Which of the following statement is false?

Select one:
a. Species, population, and ecosystems are classified mainly as dynamic systems.
 b. When friction influences the pendulum, the system comes to a rest which is called
equilibrium.
c. The pendulum is an example of a system in constant condition in the absence of friction.
d. Species, population, and ecosystems are classified mainly as static systems.

What are among the services that the ecosystems provide?

Select one:
a. Prompt, cultural, regulating and supporting
b. Provisioning, cultural, regulating and supporting
c. Prompt, social, regulating and cultural
d. Provisioning,social, regulating and supporting

What kind of phenomenon refers to an increase in the current population of an area brought
about by availability of jobs, better health care and social services, and higher standards of
living?
Select one:
a. Negative feedback
b. Positive feedback
c. Feedback
d. Equilibrium

A high rate of transfer will affect a small lake in what way?

Select one:
a. It will have a short residence time and will therefore be more vulnerable to change and
pollutants.
b. It will have a long residence time and will therefore be less vulnerable to change and
pollutants
c. It will have a long residence time and will therefore be more vulnerable to change and
pollutants.
d. It will have a short residence time and will therefore be less vulnerable to change and
pollutants.

Which does not refer to the precautionary principle?

Select one:
a. It may be applied while still gathering scientific evidence.
b. Even without full scientific proof, necessary precautionary principles should be employed.
c. Life has greatly influenced the global environment
 d. It is applied to prevent adverse effects to the health of the environment and the organisms
living in it.

Which does not pertain to environmental science?

Select one:
a. None of the above
b. It involves the identification of environmental problems and the corresponding solutions.
c. An interdisciplinary field of study that integrates the physical and social sciences.
d. The process of environmental science includes understanding nature, determining the
interactions of organisms with one another and their environment, and

What refers to a more complex linkages of energy, elements and compounds?

Select one:
a. Pathways
b. Energy chains
c. Food chains
d. Food webs

What composes the autotrophs?

Select one:
a. Algae
b. Green plants
c. Certain bacteria
d. All of the above

The major theme of environmental science which refers to the thought that everything is
connected to everything else.
Select one:
a. Science and values
b. People and nature
c. Global perspective
d. Urban environments

It is defined as the study of organisms' interaction with one another and their environment.
Select one:
a. Ecosystem
b. Ecology
 c. Environmental science
d. Environmentalism

What environmental concept explains this: A change in one thing may affect everything else.
Select one:
a. Uniformitarianism
b. Environmental unity
c. Increasing human population growth
d. System responses

Chemical elements are recycled but energy flows in one way into and out of the system with
small fraction of it stored.
Select one:
True
False

This integrates the different disciplines of study in order to understand nature, the interaction of
organisms with nature, and to find solutions for environmental problems.
Select one:
a. Ecology
b. Environmental science
c. Environmentalism
d. Ecosystem

Most of the environments and natural systems are classified as:

Select one:
a. Steady-state equilibrium
b. Open systems
c. Closed systems
d. Dynamic equilibrium

This refers to two types of systems wherein one is in fixed condition while the other continues to
change over time
Select one:
a. Static and dynamic systems
b. Open and closed systems
c. Closed and materially closed systems
d. Steady-state and non-steady state open systems