True/False
Indicate whether the
statement is true or false.
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Chemical pesticides influence the appearance of food items.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Dried manure can be used for...
a. | Feed additives | c. | Making storage basins | b. | Gravel road
beds | d. | Run off diversion and
control |
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Odor from manure is made worse by...
a. | Aerobic conditions | c. | Anaerobic conditions | b. | Aerating lagoons | d. | Good planning |
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Which of the following is a change in land-use patterns of a community that
occurs as the population increases?
a. | A community uses more water per day | b. | Fewer streets are built | c. | Fewer classrooms are
built | d. | Less land is required |
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Which of the following is not a soil forming factor?
a. | Biotic activity | c. | Distance from water | b. | Climate | d. | Parent material |
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Which of the following is not a true statement about natural disasters?
a. | Natural disasters are episodes in which the processes of nature cause human or
animals suffering | b. | Population density has no effect on how many
people are injured by natural disasters | c. | Most of the processes that are considered
natural disasters have been occurring for thousands of years | d. | Hurricanes are
considered natural disasters |
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Which of the following is not a land-use problem associated with failure to
consider slope?
a. | Areas being covered with hot lava | c. | Landslides | b. | Soil
erosion | d. | Drainage |
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Which of the following chemical elements is not needed to form an organic
chemical?
a. | Chlorine | b. | Hydrogen | c. | Oxygen | d. | Carbon |
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The fatal botulin toxin can be found where?
a. | In the soil | c. | In water | b. | In the air | d. | In the
rainforest |
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A soap and water mixture affects which systems of the insect?
a. | Circulatory | b. | Nervous | c. | Reproductive | d. | Respiratory |
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Which of the following items is not found on a chemical label?
a. | Directions | b. | Safety tests | c. | Ingredients | d. | Precautions |
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How are the contaminant residues generally measured in drinking water?
a. | Parts per thousand (ppt) | c. | Parts per billion
(ppb) | b. | Parts per million (ppm) | d. | Parts per hundred (pph) |
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Air pollutants which adhere to precipitation and falls to the earth is
called...
a. | Leachate | c. | Leaching | b. | Acid drainage | d. | Acid rain |
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Which of the following is a non-exhaustible resource?
a. | fish and wildlife | c. | soil | b. | forest | d. | solar energy |
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A food chain...
a. | consists of animals feeding on each other | b. | consists of only
producers | c. | is the sequence of organisms through which food (energy) passes | d. | consists only of
nonliving organisms by which living organisms feed |
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A food web is different from a food chain because...
a. | animals eat plants in a food web and they do not in a food chain | b. | a food web is a
combination of several food chains | c. | decomposers eat animals in a food chain but not
in a food web | d. | a food web and a food chain are the same thing |
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Carbon is returned to the atmosphere through...
a. | the burning of fossil fuels | b. | carbon is completely used and never returns to
the environment | c. | respiration of producers, consumers, and decomposers | d. | the water
cycle |
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Plants that undergo the process of nitrogen -fixing by absorbing nitrogen gas
(N2) and converting it to nitrates are called
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a. | cool season grasses | c. | nitrators | b. | legumes | d. | warm season
grasses |
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The most important factor in determining how many and what types of organisms
live in an ecosystem is the available...
a. | energy | b. | soil | c. | temperature | d. | water |
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Fire is an important factor in maintaining grasslands because it...
a. | burns up all the nutrients | c. | leaves behind
litter | b. | damages roots of grass species | d. | serves to weaken competing
trees |
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Highly degraded soil organic matter is / are known as...
a. | humus | c. | microbial soil | b. | pedogenisis | d. | soil beginnings |
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Which of the following is a function of soil as a medium for plant
growth?
a. | serving as an aggregate for asphalt and concrete | b. | serving as a road
bed | c. | supplying water to roots | d. | supplying material for land
fills |
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Before the ingredients of soil are broken down and form soil they are known
as...
a. | felsic mix | c. | parent material | b. | organic minerals | d. | presoil mix |
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What process is occurring when freezing and thawing of water break down
rocks?
a. | construction | c. | regeneration | b. | photosynthesis | d. | weathering |
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What is the purpose of adding calcium carbonate to soil?
a. | improve the structure of the soil | b. | to increase the pH of soil (decrease
acidity) | c. | to prevent erosion by working as an adhesive to soil | d. | to replace nitrogen
of soil |
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What is the primary problem of applying sewage sludge to land?
a. | most sewage sludge is too acidic | b. | sewage sludge decreases organic matter in
soil | c. | some sewage sludge may contain heavy metals | d. | sewage sludge is
hard to transport because it is heavy |
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Which of the following is a manure treatment system?
a. | Anaerobic lagoon | c. | Solid manure stack | b. | Earth bank storage | d. | Underground pit |
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All of the following are byproducts of manure have the potential for polluting
water except:
a. | bacteria | b. | nitrates | c. | oxygen | d. | zinc |
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Which of the following plants does not contain a toxic chemical which is fatal
to livestock?
a. | black nightshade | c. | blue grass | b. | black cherry tree | d. | fescue grass |
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30.
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Eighty five percent of the irrigated land in the United States is located in
states.
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31.
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The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA was formed in what year?
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32.
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Residue tolerances are established by the EPA under the authority of which
federal provision?
a. | Purchase “general-use” products only | b. | Apply
“general-use” products only | c. | Apply and purchase “restricted-use”
products | d. | Apply and purchase “general-use” products |
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33.
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All municipalities must have at least which phase of waste treatment implemented
to meet federal regulations?
a. | Primary | b. | Secondary | c. | Tertiary | d. | Slurry |
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The primary source of food energy in a food chain comes from....
a. | consumers | b. | decomposers | c. | producers | d. | water |
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