Environmental Science Quiz

What is interface?

• A boundary between regions with different properties

• A region with uniform properties

• A type of pollutant

• A natural resource

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

What is a natural hazard?

• A human-made disaster

• A non-human-related object, process, or situation causing potential harm

• A type of natural resource

• A form of pollution

What is a pollutant?

• A beneficial substance

• A type of natural resource

• Substances and forms of energy that pollute (solids, liquids, gases)

• A natural hazard

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

Which is dynamic equilibrium?

• environmental equilibrium resulting from opposing forces or actions balancing out

• all matter, time, energy, and space

• boundary between regions with different properties

• changes in the environment that occur in an orderly fashion in which the events constantly repeat.

What is natural resource?

• materials and energy sources found in the environment that humans use in their daily lives

  (for example: water, oil, metals, sand)

• substances that pollute

• changes in the environment that occur in an orderly fashion in which events repeat

• all matter, time, energy, and space.

What is rate of change?

• how the measurable aspect of environment, called a field, is altered over time (years, seconds, or hours)

• matter, time, energy, and space

• a non-human object, process, or situation that has the possibility of causing loss of life, personal injury, or loss of property.

cyclic change

• boundary between regions with different properties.

• changes in the environment that occur in an orderly fashion in which events constantly repeat.

• substances and forms of energy and pollute, including solids,l iquids, gases, energy

The rate of change can be measured in which units?

• Days, weeks, months

• Years, hours, seconds

• Minutes, hours, days

• Weeks, months, years

What is pollution?

• occurs when the concentration of any substance or form of energy reaches a proportion that adversely affects people or their property, or other life forms.

• all time, energy, matter, and space

• The constant aspect of a field

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is universe?

• measurable part of the environment, called a field is given over time-years, seconds, or hours

• all matter, time, energy, and space

• materials and energy sources found in the environment that humans use in their daily lives