ENVS Exam 2 Quiz Questions and
Answers (Module 1)
The IPAT or ImPACT formula may be one way to estimate the:
Environmental footprint of a society
The environmental movement was a grassroots initiative that:
Primarily addressed the increasing pollution of the movement
Living organisms draw their essential elements from:
The atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere
Groups of organisms that may have been separated for millions of years may be
brought together in new combinations primarily by:
Plate tectonics
Plants grow as new organic molecules are formed by plant cells. Most of the
carbon in the newly created organic molecules of these plants ultimately come
from:
Carbon dioxide in the air
A population would be expected to grow if:
immigration increased and deaths and emigration decreased.
Justice and equity in regulating environmental quality are components of:
Stewardship
Which of the following events may have contributed the most to the decline of
fertility rates in the United States after 1963?
Improved methods of family planning
Along the shoreline of a pond, Canadian geese, American toads, and grass frogs
search for food while bluegill and bass prey on small fish in the shallow water.
These species, living and feeding in this particular location, represent one:
Community
The development of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution made food:
Less of a limiting factor on population growth
In general, it is rare for a parasite to:
Kill its host
Which of the following ecosystem service degradations is not a major
environmental concern for sustainable development?:
Depleting supplies of coal
When a single species evolves into two species, the new species must:
Be reproductively isolated.
Indonesia represents a nation in which:
women are now having smaller families because of economic and social service
constraints.
Most species around the world go extinct because:
of loss of habitat.
New genetic traits upon which natural selection can act usually arise from:
Mutations and crossover.
Answers (Module 1)
The IPAT or ImPACT formula may be one way to estimate the:
Environmental footprint of a society
The environmental movement was a grassroots initiative that:
Primarily addressed the increasing pollution of the movement
Living organisms draw their essential elements from:
The atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere
Groups of organisms that may have been separated for millions of years may be
brought together in new combinations primarily by:
Plate tectonics
Plants grow as new organic molecules are formed by plant cells. Most of the
carbon in the newly created organic molecules of these plants ultimately come
from:
Carbon dioxide in the air
A population would be expected to grow if:
immigration increased and deaths and emigration decreased.
Justice and equity in regulating environmental quality are components of:
Stewardship
Which of the following events may have contributed the most to the decline of
fertility rates in the United States after 1963?
Improved methods of family planning
Along the shoreline of a pond, Canadian geese, American toads, and grass frogs
search for food while bluegill and bass prey on small fish in the shallow water.
These species, living and feeding in this particular location, represent one:
Community
The development of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution made food:
Less of a limiting factor on population growth
In general, it is rare for a parasite to:
Kill its host
Which of the following ecosystem service degradations is not a major
environmental concern for sustainable development?:
Depleting supplies of coal
When a single species evolves into two species, the new species must:
Be reproductively isolated.
Indonesia represents a nation in which:
women are now having smaller families because of economic and social service
constraints.
Most species around the world go extinct because:
of loss of habitat.
New genetic traits upon which natural selection can act usually arise from:
Mutations and crossover.
