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Semester 1 2015: Ecosystems, Populations, Biomes, Human Impact, Water Cycle. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

What produces the most amount of smog?
a) burning wastes
b) heating buildings
c) cars
d) power plants

During which part of the water cycle is energy absorbed by water
a) evaporation
b) precipitation
c) geosphere
d) runoff

How much of the Earth is fresh water?
a) 5%
b) 1%
c) 25%
d) 75%

Where is groundwater stored?
a) in lakes and rivers
b) in oceans
c) in ice caps at the poles
d) in cracks and pores beneath Earth's surface

What percent of Earth's surface water is found in swamps?
a) 2%
b) 11%
c) 20%
d) 87%

what provides the energy that keeps the water cycle going?
a) wind
b) the sun
c) water
d) hydrogen

The natural location where water is stored
a) resevoirs
b) precipitation
c) runoff
d) water vapor

Natural resources are saved, and damage to the environment is reduced by reducing, reusing and
a) reclamation
b) recycling
c) reforestation
d) reusing

what refers to all the populations in an ecosystem
a) populations
b) community
c) ecosystem
d) habitat

what type of animal eats other animals
a) carnivore
b) bacteria
c) herbivore
d) omnivore

when areas of land that had been good farm land become dry and dusty
a) urban sprawl
b) reforestation
c) desertification
d) reclamation

Not knowing where the pollution is coming from
a) urban sprawl
b) desertification
c) nonpoint-source pollution
d) reforestation

When many people build houses and suburbs clearing out land
a) urban sprawl
b) reforestation
c) reclamation
d) nonpoint-source pollution

where animals can roam nearly as free as in the wild
a) desertification
b) urban sprawl
c) reclamation
d) reforestation

children planting trees where extensive logging had taken place.
a) reforestation
b) urban sprawl
c) desertification
d) nonpoint-source pollution

Estuaries and wetlands purify water and filter out
a) africa
b) people
c) salt water
d) pollution

When water evaporates it enters the...?
a) geosphere
b) atmosphere
c) biosphere
d) hydrosphere

Heartworms in a dog
a) parasitism
b) mutualism
c) commensalism
d)

sea anemones help crabs fight off predators, and eat leftovers from the crabs meals
a) parasitism
b) mutualism
c) commensalism
d)

remoras attach themselves to a shark's body , they eat the scraps left behind, neither helping or hurting the shark.
a) parasitism
b) mutualism
c) commensalism
d)

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