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__________________ College of Arts and Sciences
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GE10 Environmental Science
2nd Semester, S.Y. 2021-2022

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

I. Multiple Choice
Instruction: Read and understand the following questions carefully. Choose the letter
that corresponds to the best answer for each given item.

1. What is another term for affluence in the IPAT equation?

a. Resource consumption per impact
b. Resource consumption per person
c. Resource consumption per population
d. Resource consumption per unit
2. Environmental impact model was developed in the early ________.
a. 1940s
b. 1950s
c. 1960s
d. 1970s
3. It is an analysis that calculates the natural areas required to satisfy human needs
and demands in food, housing, transportation, consumer goods, and various
services such as absorbing wastes.
a. Data Analysis
b. Dimensional Analysis
c. Environmental Analysis
d. Footprint Analysis
4. It represents a region’s biologically productive land and sea area available to meet
the population’s demand.
a. Bio-capacity
b. Biological Footprint
c. Biological Production
d. Ecological Footprint
 5. It is a protocol that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and other
greenhouse gases.
a. CarGre Protocol
b. Kyoto Protocol
c. Madrid Protocol
d. Reduction Protocol
6. What do you call this process where the air tends to dry out plants and soil below?
a. Aerial effect
b. Environmental effects
c. Greenhouse effect
d. Rain Shadow effect
7. Climate and vegetation vary according to____________.
a. Latitude and elevation
b. Latitude and longitude
c. Low tides and high tides
d. Temperature and pressure
8. Which of the following choices below is not belong to Greenhouse gases?
a. Carbon dioxide
b. Cyanide
c. Methane
d. Nitrous oxide
9. It is the pattern of atmospheric conditions in a given area over periods ranging
from at least three decades to thousands of years.
a. Biosphere
b. Climate
c. Stratosphere
d. Weather
10. Gene flow is also known as _________.
a. DNA replication
b. Gene migration
c. Genetic variable
d. Mutation

II. Identification
Instruction: Identify what is being asked in the following statements.

1. It is a diagram that shows how lineages share ancestors.

2. It is referred to as the genetic makeup of organisms within a population change.
3. It is the number of different individuals, species, and ecosystems within an
environment.
4. It deals with how we should conceptualize our task of forging a sustainable future.

5. This is a common cause of gene variation in plants.

6. He is the proponent of evolution theory.

7.  It is the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and
relies on the process of natural selection.

8. It is a characteristic that enhances the survival or reproduction of organisms that

bear it, relative to alternative character states (especially the ancestral condition in
the population in which the adaptation evolved).

9. This is the only mechanism known to cause the evolution of adaptations.

10. It is an interdisciplinary study of how the earth (nature) works, how humans
interact with the environment and how humans can live more sustainably.

11. It is a branch of biology that focuses on how living organisms interact with the
living and the nonliving parts of their environment.

12. It is a biological community of organisms within the defined area of land or

volume of water that interacts with one another and with the nonliving chemical
and physical factors in their environment.

13. It is a form of development or progress that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

14. It is a society in balance with the natural world, continuing generation after
generation, neither depleting its resource base by exceeding sustainable yields nor
producing pollutants over nature's capacity to absorb them.
15. The circulation of nutrients from the environment through various organisms and
back to the environment.
16. It consists of all the organisms living in one area.
17. He worked with two very identical species which are Paramecium caudatum and
Paramecium Aurelia.
18. It is the pathway along which food is transferred from one trophic or feeding level
to another.
19. It is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community
over time. 
20. It is a large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate. 
III. True or False (2 points each)
Instruction: Write the first two letters of your FIRST NAME if the statement is true
and write the first two letters of your LAST NAME if the statement is false.

1. Grassland is found near the equator with abundant rainfall, stable temperatures,
and high humidity.
2. Desert covers huge areas in both the temperate and tropical regions of the world.
3. Temperate deciduous forest is the largest terrestrial biome.
4. Taiga is commonly referred to as the frozen desert because it gets very little
rainfall and what rainfall occurs cannot penetrate the frozen ground.
5. Asexual reproduction encourages a population's gene combinations to change,
resulting in genetic variety.
6. The mechanisms of natural selection and biological evolution rely heavily on
genetic variation.
7. The earth’s circulation patterns, prevailing winds, and configuration of continents
and oceans are all factors in the formation of seven Hadley cells- huge regions.
8. Various topographic features of the earth’s surface can’t create local climatic
conditions that differ from the general climate in some regions.
9. The rain shadow effect is a reduction of rainfall and loss of moisture from the
landscape on the leeward side of a mountain.
10. The technology factor of the IPAT model can neither be harmful nor beneficial.

IV. Enumeration
Instruction: Enumerate the following keywords/statements.

1-3. Categories for interactions within a community.

4-9. Principles to consider in making environmental policies.
10-12. Key Principles of Sustainability.

13-16. Four global environmental concerns.

17-23. Features that can be handed down from parents to kids.
24-25. Two scientists developed the environmental impact model or known as the
IPAT model.
26-28. Several factors help determine regional climates.
 29-30. Key Components of Sustainability.

V. A. ESSAY
Instruction: Answer the following statements/questions comprehensively. (10 points
each)

1. Why is biodiversity so important and worthy of protection?

2. In what way can one's knowledge of science help in forging a sustainable future?
B. Provide your thoughts/opinions/ideas on the following statements. What do these have on
today's generation? (25 points each)

1.

2.
 The basis for grading an essay questions

“Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing
that everyone has a different question paper”.

ALFRED E. TORGA
Guest Instructor