Environmental Science Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Environmental Science explores the interactions between the natural world and human societies, drawing on concepts from biology, chemistry, physics, and earth sciences. This course examines key topics such as ecosystems, biodiversity, pollution, natural resource management, and the impacts of human activity on air, water, and soil. Students will investigate environmental challenges, including climate change, waste management, and sustainability, while developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills to address these issues. Through hands-on activities, case studies, and discussions, learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex factors shaping our environment and the strategies needed to promote a more sustainable future.
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Discovering Physical Geography 3rd Edition by Alan F. Arbogast
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Physical Geography
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Q1) Geographers are analyzing data on where and when hurricanes strike,tornadoes form,flooding takes place,earthquakes happen,and the like.As the global population grows,many people are moving into areas affected by these events.This study falls into which of the following categories?
A) deforestation
B) farmland loss
C) global climate change
D) natural hazards
E) none of these
Answer: D
Q2) Geographers are analyzing data on the levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere from the past to the present.This study falls into which of the following categories?
A) deforestation
B) farmland loss
C) global climate change
D) natural hazards
E) none of these
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Geographers Tools
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Q1) Which of the following is not true when reading a topographic map?
A) The closer the spacing of contour lines, the steeper the slope.
B) Contour lines that are widely spaced represent relatively flat terrain.
C) Contours that form closed circles indicate hills.
D) Where contours cross a stream, they form V's that point downstream.
E) They are all true.
Answer: D
Q2) Isohyets connect points of equal amounts of precipitation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Longitude measures your position north or south of the Equator.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The largest freestanding rock in the world rises over 1100 feet and is called Uluru.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Earth-Sun Geometry and the Seasons
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Q1) Traveling west across the International Date Line will return you to the previous day.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The diameter of the Earth
A) is greater when measured around the poles than when measured around the Equator.
B) is the same when measured around the poles as when measured around the Equator.
C) is less when measured around the poles than when measured around the Equator.
D) is dependent on the position of the Earth and the Sun.
E) changes slightly with the seasons.
Answer: C
Q3) The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice occurs when the subsolar point is at the Tropic of Cancer.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Global Energy System
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Q1) Of all of the solar radiation entering the atmosphere,about 25% is direct radiation that reaches the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the range of wavelengths for visible light?
A) 250-500 micrometers
B) 375-740 nanometers
C) 475-800 picometers
D) 100-320 meters
Q3) If the global radiation budget shows a deficit,it means that the Earth is warming up.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Reflectance of an object is known as A) albedo.
B) angle of incidence.
C) solar radiation.
D) specific heat.
Q5) What is ozone? Where is the greatest concentration located? Why is it important?
Q6) Define the term solar constant. What is its numerical value?
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Chapter 5: Global Temperature Patterns
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Q1) Fill in the blanks with the correct words to make the following statement true: One of the reasons ______ environments tend to be warmer than _______ environments is that in _______ environments rainfall and snowmelt gradually soak the ground.
Q2) The climates of northeast Canada and northeastern Asia are under the influence of A) heavy moisture.
B) significant amounts of latent energy.
C) continentality.
D) maritime effects.
Q3) What is the measurement of human comfort in summer that implies warmer weather with high humidity?
A) adiabados
B) heat index
C) anthropogenic variation
D) wind chill
Q4) The lowest layer of the atmosphere is the troposphere.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the thermosphere,including elevation,composition,and lapse rate.
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Chapter 6: Atmospheric Pressure, wind, and Global
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Q1) At sea level,the air pressure is 1013.25 mb.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the center of a low-pressure system,in what direction is the flow of air?
A) rising vertically
B) horizontally
C) cannot be known without knowing the hemisphere
D) descending vertically
Q3) Advection is the vertical mixing of fluids material (or air)due to differences in temperature.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As air rises it __[1]___ and can hold __[2]___ moisture.
Answer 1 Choices: cools warms
Answer 2 Choices: less more no
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Chapter 7: Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
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Q1) The wet adiabatic lapse rate is
A) the average change in temperature of still air with altitude.
B) changes in temperature that occur due to variations in air pressure.
C) the rate at which an unsaturated body of air cools while lifting or warms while descending.
D) the altitude at which water changes from the vapor to the liquid phase.
E) the rate at which a saturated body of air cools as it lifts.
Q2) How much does water expand when it freezes?
A) 9%
B) 0%
C) -4%
D) 15%
Q3) If we raise an air mass,its relative humidity decreases.
A)True
B)False
Q4) About 1% of all the water available on the Earth is available for human,plant,and animal use.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why does ice float on water,even though both are made of the same substance?
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Chapter 8: Air Masses and Cyclonic Weather Systems
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Q1) If a midlatitude cyclone is centered in Kansas on Tuesday,by Wednesday it will most likely be centered in
A) North Dakota.
B) Utah.
C) Texas.
D) Indiana.
E) Florida.
Q2) The heaviest rain during a thunderstorm occurs during the mature stage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The fastest moving front is a cold front.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The passage of a warm front means the temperatures will rise.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A warm and moist air mass is called cT.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The cloud type BEST associated with lightning and thunder is the __________.
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Chapter 9: Global Climates and Global Climate Change
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Q1) Climate has a visible impact on the landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A climograph with a long,steep curve with the trough well below freezing and short or medium bars is
A) humid continental.
B) subarctic.
C) ice cap.
D) humid subtropical.
E) marine west-coast.
Q3) " B" climates are initially distinguished by A) topography.
B) temperature.
C) soil type.
D) air mass.
E) moisture.
Q4) "The barometric pressure is 1015 mb" is a statement about climate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The full name of the climate with the highest latitude is __________.
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Chapter 10: Plant Geography
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Q1) Which of the following SECONDARY factors influence the geographic distribution of vegetation?
A) climate
B) geology
C) soils
D) landscape position
E) human behavior
Q2) The climate zone that BEST matches the tropical rainforest biome is
A) tropical rainforest
B) tropical monsoon
C) marine west coast
D) tropical savanna
E) hot low-latitude desert
Q3) The forests of the west coast of North America are called temperate forests.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Areas of tall grasses in the midlatitude grasslands are called __________.
Q5) Between 1990 and 2000,every continent had a decrease in forest cover.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Global Distribution and Character of Soils
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Q1) The soil BEST associated with tundra is
A) entisols.
B) gelisols.
C) mollisols.
D) histosols.
E) inceptisols.
Q2) Inceptisols are the most poorly developed or youngest soils.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A clump of soil is called a(n)
A) colloid.
B) ped.
C) grain.
D) loam.
E) epipedon.
Q4) A mixed soil texture is a loam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A triangular diagram showing the percent distribution of different soil particle sizes is used to help identify the __________ of a soil.
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Chapter 12: Earth S Internal Structure, rock Cycle, and Geologic Time
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Q1) Naturally occurring substances with distinctive chemical configurations that manifest themselves in some kind of crystalline form are called __________.
Q2) Quartz,calcite,and feldspar are rocks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify whether the following rocks are either "intrusive" or "extrusive" and "felsic" or "mafic."
Rhyolite [1] [2]
Answer 1 Choices: Extrusive
Intrusive
Answer 2 Choices: Felsic
Mafic
Q4) Which of the following is a chemical sedimentary rock?
A) gneiss
B) coal
C) limestone
D) sandstone
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Chapter 13: Tectonic Processes and Landforms
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Q1) A topographic valley that occurs along the axis of a structural downfold is called a(n)
Q2) The instrument used to measure and record an earthquake is a A) climograph.
B) barometer.
C) Brunton compass.
D) seismograph.
E) hygrometer.
Q3) S waves move faster than P waves.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The chain of volcanoes that occurs along the edge of the Pacific lithospheric plate is called the Pacific __________.
Q5) The Wizard Island volcano is younger than Mount Mazama. A)True B)False
Q6) . A 5.0 earthquake is considerably stronger than one rated at 4.9. A)True
B)False
Q7) The largest of the types of volcanic cones is the __________.
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Chapter 14: Weathering and Mass Movements
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Q1) The lowest end of a slump is its A) head.
B) mouth.
C) foot.
D) limb.
E) toe.
Q2) A crack or fissure along horizontal or vertical planes in a rock mass that divides the rock into large blocks is a A) fault.
B) joint.
C) pipe.
D) dike.
E) niche.
Q3) Repeated heating and cooling of rocks results in mechanical weathering.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Carbonation is most effective on limestone.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mechanical weathering is also called __________ weathering.
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Chapter 15: Groundwater and Karst Landscapes
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Q1) When the pore spaces between sediment become too small and do not allow water to pass through,the sediment is said to be
A) permeable.
B) impermeable.
C) unsaturated.
D) saturated.
E) semipermeable.
Q2) A(n)___________ well is a well in which water from a confined aquifer rises to the surface through natural pressure.
A) saturated
B) artesian
C) center-pivot
D) depression
E) subsidence
Q3) Water covers 70% of the Earth's surface.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With increasing precipitation,pore spaces fill with hygroscopic water.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Fluvial Systems and Landforms
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Q1) Waterfalls are a result of the presence of a knickpoint.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A confluence is the place where two streams join together.
A)True
B)False
Q3) This is a fan-shaped landform of low relief that forms where a stream flows out of an area of high relief into a broad,open plain where deposition occurs.
A) alluvium
B) an alluvial terrace
C) an unpaired terrace
D) an alluvial fan
E) colluvium
Q4) A drainage system that is typically associated with a volcano is called
A) dendritic.
B) rectangular.
C) trellis.
D) radial.
E) parallel.
Q5) Describe the evolution of a graded stream associated with a valley.
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Chapter 17: Glacial Geomorphology: Processes and Landforms
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Q1) Describe the process of converting snow to glacial ice.
Q2) Which of the following is in the correct chronological order (oldest to most recent)?
A) Illinoisan Nebraskan Kansan
B) Nebraskan Illinoisan Kansan
C) Nebraskan Kansan Illinoisan
D) Kansan Nebraskan Illinoisan
E) Illinoisan Kansan Nebraskan
Q3) What are some of the forms of ground ice?
Q4) During the Last Glacial period (18KYBP),__________% of the Earth was covered by ice.
A) 10
B) 30
C) 57
D) 84
E) 100
Q5) What are the two main processes through which glacial erosion takes place? Define each.
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Q6) How do glaciers move? At what rate do glaciers move? What impacts their motion?
Q7) What is the difference between alpine glaciers and continental glaciers?
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Chapter 18: Arid Landscapes and Eolian Processes
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Q1) This type of dune is modified from barchan dunes and has a truncated crest and flattened lee slope.
A) barchnoid ridge
B) transverse
C) dome
D) reversing
E) longitudinal
Q2) An ecotone is a transition between two distinct ecosystems that contain species from each area.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Two processes are responsible for wind erosion.What are the two processes and how do they work?
Q4) This eolian feature is a steep-sided,narrow tower that is the final remnant of a plateau,mesa,or butte.
A) arroyo
B) playa
C) pinnacle
D) canyon
E) ventifact
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Chapter 19: Coastal Processes and Landforms
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Q1) Water that is under 35% but over 15% salinity is called ________ water.
A) fresh
B) marsh
C) brackish
D) brine
Q2) There are ____ geographic divisions of the world ocean.
A) two
B) three
C) five
D) six
E) seven
Q3) ____________ is the part of the beach that lies between the beach ridge and the foredune.
A) The backshore
B) The beach ridge
C) The foreshore
D) The offshore
E) The offshore bar
Q4) As a result of wave action along a shoreline,describe the four stages of bluff formation and retreat.
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Chapter 20: Population Growth and Environmental Impacts
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Q1) The process whereby soluble salts such as calcium and potassium accumulate on the soil is known as
A) saltation.
B) salinization.
C) calcification.
D) irrigation.
E) aridization.
Q2) Salinization is the process where soluble salts accumulate on the soil.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Las Vegas lies in the physiographic province named
A) Basin and Range.
B) High Tablelands.
C) Mountain.
D) Mediterranean Scrubland.
E) Midlatitude Broadleaf.
Q4) Explain issues with salinization in Australia and how Australia's physical environment contributes.
Q5) How have humans contributed to the initial downturn in numbers of Giant Pandas in the wild?
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