ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1. It is the passage of energy in a one-way direction in an ecosystem? Energy flow
2. A U.S biologist who publish the 'Silent Spring" which heightened public awareness about that
dangers of DDT and other pesticide. Rachel Carson
3. What do you call the process which some of energy stored in the nutrient molecules is released
for use by the cells? Cellular Respiration
4. Which biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms? Nitrogen
cycle
5. A London physician who traced a part of the cholera epidemic to a contaminated water pump in
1855. John Snow
6. Which process in nitrogen cycle when plants and animals incorporate the NO3 and ammonia
formed through nitrogen fixation and nitrification? Assimilation
7. Which biogeochemical process that moves carbon between plants, animals, and microbes;
minerals in the earth and the atmosphere? Carbon cycle
8. Which type of consumer known for eating plants? Herbivores
9. Who set aside 58 million acres of forest and wilderness by the end of his presidency? Bill Clinton
10. Which biogeochemical cycle refers to the continuous circulation of water through the earth's
land, ocean and atmosphere? Hydrologic cycle
11. It refers to the sum of the external forces and conditions acting on an organism or community of
organism? Environment
12. Which ecological pyramid show the total number of individual organisms at each level in the
food chain of an ecosystem? Pyramid of Number
13. Which process in nitrogen cycle that implies transformation of the relatively gaseous nitrogen
into ammonia? Nitrogen fixation
14. Which biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformation and translocation of phosphorus
in soil, water and living and dead organic material? Phosphorus cycle
15. They use sources of heat such as solar radiation (direct and indirect) and conduction to help
adjust their body temperature. Ectotherms
16. Who predicted that eventually food and resources will run out as population explode and new
technologies create additional pollution. Thomas Malthus
17. It is a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding
relationship within a community? Food web
18. A biotic factors that e heterotrophs that breakdown dead tissue and waste products.
Decomposer
19. All organisms are interdependent and interconnected parts of nature and are completely
dependent on nature. Ecology
20. Which process in nitrogen cycle by converting nitrate into gaseous forms like nitrogen oxides and
nitrogen gas? Nitrogen fixation
21. It is the sequence of transfer of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to
organism? Food chain
22. Which ecological pyramids represent how much energy, initially from the sun, is retained or
stored in the form of new biomass at each trophic level? Pyramids of Energy
23. A biotic factor that are autotrophs that can make their own food through a process called
photosynthesis. Producers
24. Which type of organism is known for eating meat or animals? Carnivore
25. Which ecological pyramids represent the total living biomass or organic matter present at
different trophic level? Pyramid of Biomass
26. It refers to study of the relationship between organisms and their environment? Ecology
27. Which process in nitrogen cycle by which ammonia are sequentially oxidized to nitrite and
nitrate? Nitrification
28. A biotic factor that is known as the clean up crew of the ecosystem. Decomposer
29. Which symbiotic relationship in which two partners from a close relationship that produces
equal benifits? Mutualism
30. Which type of consumer is known for eating both plants and animals? Omnivores
31. Which symbiotic relationship in which only one of the partner species derives a benefit from
participating in symbiotic relationship. Commensalism
32. It is the study of the interactions among physical, chemical and biological components of the
environment? Environmental Science
33. A biotic factors that are heterotrophs, they only depend on producers for their food. Consumers
34. Which symbiotic relationship in which one member of the relationship benefits while the other
is harmed? Parasitism
35. Which ecological pyramids represent how much energy, initially from the sun, is retained or
stored in the form of new biomass at each trophic level? Pyramids of Energy
36. A biotic factor that are autotrophs that can make their own food through a process called
photosynthesis. Producers