Environmental Changes - Test Test Answers

Which area shows the climax community of secondary succession?

Which statement accurately compares timber and sunlight?

Which resource produces the cleanest energy?

Which would be the most accurate title for this picture?

Which natural occurrence is shown?

Which resource is a nonrenewable resource?

Which sustainable practice is paired correctly with its impact on the environment?

Favorable adaptations build up in a population over many generations due to long-term environmental change. What is the most likely result of this process?

What effect would El Niño most likely have on organisms?

A restaurant advertises that it is environmentally friendly. It describes the solar panels it uses to generate electricity and the locally grown produce it serves. All the meals it offers are prepared over an open wood fire. Food is served on recycled copper plates, and drinks are served in recycled aluminum cups. Which correctly lists three renewable resources used by the restaurant?

How does La Niña affect the climate of the Pacific Ocean?

A hunter illegally kills a wolf in Yellowstone National Park and attempts to bring the wolf's skull back to Florida. Which law is the hunter violating?

Which environmental change is considered short term?

Which substance is a greenhouse gas that is emitted by human activities, is the most widespread, and remains in the air the longest?

What kind of display would be the best way to represent the data? Type of species Critically endangered open paren percent close paren Endangered or vulnerable open paren percent close paren Plants 13 70 Invertebrates 0 35 Freshwater fish 9 37 Amphibians 7 30 Reptiles 5 28 Birds 0 12 Mammals 2 21

Rainforests around the world are being cleared at an alarming rate to make room for new communities, agriculture, mining, and roads, and to provide lumber for construction and furniture. How might the destruction of rainforests affect the balance of gases in Earth's atmosphere?

Which is one effect that would most likely result from a tsunami?

A new highly nutritious crop is going to be planted in an area where it has never been planted before. Which is the most likely outcome of such an event?

Which is a possible result of higher air temperatures caused by climate change?

Which correctly lists three greenhouse gases?

Which factors are causes of short-term climate change?

An ecosystem has experienced a flood. Which type of plants would you expect to see growing first after the flood?

Which human activity is correctly paired with the greenhouse gas that it increases?

Freshwater can be renewed, but environmentalists consider it nonrenewable. Why is there a contradiction in classification?