Environment Quiz 56

Environment Quiz 56

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1. Name the first person to walk to both Poles

Robert Swan
Ben Saunders
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Robert Falcon Scott

2. What is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets called?

Limnology
Autecology
Hydrogeology
Hydrology

3. What is the study of inland waters called?

Hydroecology
Oceanology
Limnology
Lithology

4. When is Wold Water Day celebrated?

April 22
March 22
December 22
June 22

5. What was the theme of World Water Day 2017?

Why waste water?
Water and Jobs
Water and Sustainable Development
Water and Energy

6. What is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake called?

Benthic Zone
Cold Seeps
Demersal Zone
Oceanic Zone

7. Where is the Anti-Atlas or Little Atlas mountain range?

Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Australia

8. The Johore Strait, the international strait in Southeast Asia, separates which of the following countries?

Singapore and Myanmar
Philippines and Malaysia
Singapore and Malaysia
Indonesia and Brunei

9. Which is the world's longest estuary (the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream)?

Gulf of Ob
Yenisei Gulf
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Thames Estuary

10. What is the fossilized animal dung called?

Paleofeces
Fecalith
Coprolite
Gastrolith

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