This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If the production of a good generates a positive externality, the government can increase allocative efficiency by: A) Setting a price ceiling to encourage production of the good. B) Taxing the producer of the good. C) Prosecuting firms that produce the good without proper permits. D) Subsidizing the producer of the good. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subsidizing the producer of the good. 2. Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 reasons that the study of environmental science is so difficult? A) There is no control earth to compare our data to. B) Subjectivity:people's personal feelings/opinions regarding the environment. C) Human well-being. D) Interactions between humans and the environment are simple and easy to understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interactions between humans and the environment are simple and easy to understand. 3. Radioactive waste is the main concern with the use of nuclear power plants. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Which of the following is an advantage of a seed bank? A) All seeds can be stored. B) Biopiracy. C) Increased genetic diversity. D) Inexpensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased genetic diversity. 5. What might arise if too much fluorine is added to a water sample? A) The taste might be affected and pipes will become corroded. B) Your teeth might become stained. C) The water might become hardened. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your teeth might become stained. 6. Why is sediment pollution harmful? A) It blocks light, preventing photosynthesis. B) It contains poisonous elements. C) It makes water cloudy so humans and animals can't see. D) Blue and yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blue and yellow. 7. An ecological footprint is a measurement of A) The mark a person's shoe makes in soft earth. B) The number of animals a person has killed. C) The amount of land and ocean area needed to support a person's lifestyle. D) The number of trees people cut down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The amount of land and ocean area needed to support a person's lifestyle. 8. Smallest unit of an element A) Atom. B) Compound. C) Molecule. D) Product. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atom. 9. Nonrenewable energy resources, such as oil, coal, and natural gas A) Fossil fuels. B) Industrial revolution. C) Hydroelectric power. D) Coal power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fossil fuels. 10. An ecological footprint is the A) Amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person. B) Mark a person's shoe makes in soft earth. C) Number of animals a person killed. D) Number of trees people cut down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amount of land and ocean area needed to support one person. 11. What is the definition of CONVECTION A) When heat transfers through waves. B) When heat transfers from objects that are touching. C) A hot liquid or air that expands, becomes less dense, and rises or becomes more dense, and sinks. D) Heat traveling from the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hot liquid or air that expands, becomes less dense, and rises or becomes more dense, and sinks. 12. Turning the heat down before going to bed is an example of whcich type of conservation? A) Recycling. B) Replenishing. C) Reusing. D) Reducing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reducing. 13. An experiment in which the researcher actively chooses and manipulates the independent variable A) Natural. B) Correlation. C) Manipulative. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manipulative. 14. What do plants release into the air? A) Oxygen. B) Smell. C) Food. D) Water vapor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 15. A farmer decides to test three brands of fertilizer on growth of strawberry plants. His independent variable in this experiment is what? A) Growth of strawberry plants. B) Type/brand of fertilizer. C) Amount of water needed. D) How fast they grew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type/brand of fertilizer. 16. What does non renewable energy mean? A) Oil & Natural Gas. B) A resource being used up faster than it is being made. C) A resource constantly being replaced. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A resource being used up faster than it is being made. 17. On a biome map, patches representing the same biome tend to occur at similar A) Latitudes. B) Meridians. C) Doldrums. D) Longitudes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latitudes. 18. Gulf of Mannar is an example for A) National Park. B) Biosphere Reserve. C) Botanical Garden. D) Wildlife Sanctuary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere Reserve. 19. Any obstruction placed in a river or stream to block its flow A) Water diversion. B) Dam. C) Reservoir. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dam. 20. Population divided by Area = A) Population growth. B) Population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population density. 21. Deforestation is an especially serious problem in tropical rain forests because A) Farmers must repeatedly clear additional forest area to obtain land that can support crops. B) It takes so long for the replacement seedlings to reach maturity due to the hot climate. C) They are located in developed nations with high per person resource consumption. D) The downed trees are left to rot, damaging the soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It takes so long for the replacement seedlings to reach maturity due to the hot climate. 22. What is the basis for the division of the layers of the atmosphere surrounding earth? A) Changing amount of oxygen. B) Changing composition. C) Changing temperature. D) Changing weather patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Changing temperature. 23. Which is NOT a characteristic of global winds? A) They occur as global wind belts. B) They occur within small areas. C) They occur over large areas. D) They blow steadily over long distances. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They occur within small areas. 24. A break in Earth's crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another A) Fault. B) Lava. C) Magma. D) Tributaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fault. 25. The site of controlled fission reaction A) Hydroelectric power plant. B) Coal fired power plant. C) Nuclear reactor. D) Wind farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuclear reactor. 26. Which state of matter is the earth's inner core? A) Liquid. B) Plasma. C) Gas. D) Solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solid. 27. The tundra ..... A) Has a layer of soil that is permanently frozen beneath the top soil. B) Is too cold to support insect life. C) Is resistant to environmental damage because it is usually frozen. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has a layer of soil that is permanently frozen beneath the top soil. 28. Food helps us to ..... A) Cry. B) Grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grow. 29. Generally, climates located farther from the equator have A) More rain. B) Warmer ocean currents. C) High humidity. D) Lower temperatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lower temperatures. 30. This world wide conflict lasted many years. It caused President Franklin Roosevelt to make some cuts to the National Parks service? A) Revolutionary War. B) Korean War. C) Vietnam War. D) WWII. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) WWII. 31. Only a small amount of the energy stored in food is available to the next organism in a food chain because ..... A) There are too many producers. B) There are fewer top consumers in a food chain. C) Primary and secondary consumers compete for food. D) Most of the available energy is used by the organism or released as heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Most of the available energy is used by the organism or released as heat. 32. Societies when people learned they could grow and harvest certain plants instead of gathering them. A) Agricultural. B) Industrial. C) Pastoral. D) Horticultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horticultural. 33. The amount of carbon dioxide emissions for which an individual or group is responsible is known as a A) Carbon offset. B) Carbon sequestration. C) Carbon footprint. D) Carbonic acid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon footprint. 34. ..... succession is a successional progression that begins with the destruction or disturbance on an existing ecosystem. A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Land. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary. 35. A resident of which country will have the largest ecological footprint? A) Germany. B) Pakistan. C) United States. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) United States. 36. How does energy flow through an energy pyramid? A) 90% is lost as heat. 10% is passed to the next level. B) 10% is lost as heat. 90% is passed to the next level. C) All the energy is used by the consumer. D) All the energy enters the next level. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 90% is lost as heat. 10% is passed to the next level. 37. Located near the bottom of a pond or lake A) Decomposers. B) Benthic zone. C) Swamp. D) Dams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benthic zone. 38. How does repeating an expirement improve the likelihood of obtaining accurate results? A) Procedures can be changed. B) Data can be compared. C) Equipment can be added. D) Time can be decreased. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Data can be compared. 39. What type of energy is being used when photovoltaic cells power a calculator? A) Wind. B) Solar. C) Hydroelectric. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar. 40. The application of ethical standards to relationships between people and nonhuman entities is known as environmental A) Justice. B) Ethics. C) Standards. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethics. 41. The variety of species in an ecosystem is called A) Biodiversity. B) Resistance. C) Resilience. D) Biogeography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biodiversity. 42. Succession can occur in areas that previously did not support life, this type of succession is called A) Primary succession. B) Ecological succession. C) Pioneer succession. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary succession. 43. According to one source, approximately 70% of the world's freshwater is currently used by agricultural industries. What problem is at the root of this stress on the world's freshwater sources? A) Increasing numbers of pathogens in aquatic ecosystems. B) Exponential human population growth. C) Development of genetically modified crops. D) Lack of funding for aquaculture programs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential human population growth. 44. The 6 R's stand for: A) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Repair, React. B) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reconsider, Refuse, Redistribute. C) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Repair, Refuse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink, Repair, Refuse. 45. The environment contains A) Biotic organisms. B) Abiotic things. C) Both biotic and abiotic things. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both biotic and abiotic things. 46. Which is an example of a tragedy of the commons? A) Air conditioning. B) Fishing limits. C) Recycling. D) Solar Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air conditioning. 47. Sound Science is based on a one-time occurrence A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 48. Regions of Earth that are defined by their climate and the unique plants & animals that live there A) Ecosystem. B) Biome. C) Niche. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 49. Energy from living organisms. A) Geothermal. B) Fossil fuels. C) Oil. D) Biofuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biofuels. 50. Where do the majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur on Earth? A) Ring of Fire. B) Japan. C) West Coast of United States. D) Hawaii. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ring of Fire. 51. Between nonmetals A) Ionic Bonds. B) Covalent Bonds. C) Both bonds. D) Neither bond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Covalent Bonds. 52. What happens to red blood cells when they are placed into pure water? A) They will burst. B) They will shrink. C) They will remain the same size. D) They will expand and then shrink. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will burst. 53. Which statement best defines the concept of "ethics" ? A) Ethics is the ability to tell the difference in right and wrong behavior. B) Ethics is trying to judge people by what they believe and do. C) Ethics is a society's standards of conduct based on moral values and principles of its members. D) Characteristics that bring people praise and admiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethics is the ability to tell the difference in right and wrong behavior. 54. The Sun is the biggest star. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. A mass extinction is A) A rapid increase in biodiversity. B) Beneficial to the environment tagsSEV4. C) Caused by the introduction of exotic species. D) The extinction of many species in a short period of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The extinction of many species in a short period of time. 56. What does municipal mean? A) Pertaining to a city or town. B) Farmland. C) Industrial area. D) Homelife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pertaining to a city or town. 57. What is the other name for fool's gold? A) Calcite. B) Pyrite. C) Lead. D) Sterlite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pyrite. 58. What is eutrophication? A) The loss of algae due to water containing toxic levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. B) The loss of water life due to an over heating caused by excess water and nitrogen. C) The loss of oxygen in the water due to the decaying algae after an algal bloom, leading the to suffocation of water life. D) The loss of fish and water life due to eating harmful algae after an algal bloom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The loss of oxygen in the water due to the decaying algae after an algal bloom, leading the to suffocation of water life. 59. Where do angiosperms produce their seeds? A) Pollen. B) Cones. C) Flowers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flowers. 60. What is a Landfill A) A massive Compost Facility. B) Its where your burn plastic. C) A place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil. D) Where you get your food. 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