This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 108 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 108 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for propane and butane gases that can be liquefied under high pressure during the production of natural gas? A) Liquefied natural gas (LPG). B) Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). C) Methane. D) Gaseous hydrocarbons. E) Unconventional gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). 2. Various species of warblers all utilize the same evergreen trees, but each species forages in a specific zone of the trees. This is an example of ..... A) Interference competition. B) Resource partitioning. C) Competitive exclsion. D) Character displacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resource partitioning. 3. True or false:trees are a type of pioneer species A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. Plants:sunlight:: A) Erosion:rock. B) Water:evaporation. C) Air:nitrogen. D) Organisms:water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organisms:water. 5. Carbon dioxide is..... A) A greenhouse gas. B) Released from rocks through weathering. C) What plants make. D) Used as a fertilizer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A greenhouse gas. 6. A smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake. A) Divergent Fault Line. B) Earthquake. C) After Shock. D) Transform Fault Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After Shock. 7. Which energy source use heat generated inside the earth? A) Geothermal. B) Hydroelectric. C) Biomass. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geothermal. 8. ..... increases an organism's chance of surviving. A) Coevolution. B) Evolution. C) Natural selection. D) An adaptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An adaptation. 9. How can water be an agent for physical weathering? A) By absorbing gases from the atmosphere and ground to chemically react with minerals. B) By seeping into the soil and dissolving the minerals in rocks. C) By absorbing sulfur oxides and creating acid precipitation. D) By seeping into the cracks of rocks and freezing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By seeping into the cracks of rocks and freezing. 10. According to most scientists, what is the biggest cause of most mass extinctions? A) Evolution of new species to replace old ones. B) Major change in environment/habitat. C) Asteroid impact. D) Overhunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Major change in environment/habitat. 11. In paragraph 2, the word "it" refers to ..... A) Room. B) Rainforest. C) Deforestation. D) Process. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deforestation. 12. "RENUHG" Tick on the correct word. A) Thirsty. B) Hunger. C) Sad. D) Excited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hunger. 13. These statements may "cherry pick" evidence, or over-hype the facts. A) Science. B) Pseudoscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pseudoscience. 14. Which of the following is correctly arranged from the lowest trophic level to the highest trophic level? A) Bacteria, frog, eagle, raccoon. B) Algae, deer, wolf, hawk. C) Grass, mouse, snake, eagle. D) Grass, bass, minnow, snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grass, mouse, snake, eagle. 15. With respect to energy Earth is A) Unstable system. B) Open system. C) Closed system. D) Stationary system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Open system. 16. Why is water important? A) All living things need water. B) Many living things live in water. C) Water carries out body processes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. El Niño and La Niña occurs in the ..... A) Pacific Ocean. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Baltic Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific Ocean. 18. The shift of a population from the countryside to cities is called ..... A) Urbanization. B) Infrastructure. C) Land preservation. D) An ecological footprint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urbanization. 19. In a scientific investigation, the number of objects or events being sampled should be A) Small, just 1-2 individuals. B) Large so the whole population can be estimated. C) Equal to the mean number of objects not being sampled. D) Equal to the statistical population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large so the whole population can be estimated. 20. A ..... is a device that permits sustained, controlled nuclear fission chain reaction. A) Fission plant. B) Nuclear plant. C) Fusion reactor. D) Nuclear reactor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nuclear reactor. 21. Which of the following is a major contributor of CH4? A) Atmosphere. B) Ocean. C) Agriculture. D) Fossil combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agriculture. 22. Why is nitrogen fixation important? A) It converts nitrate to nitrogen gas. B) It converts nitrogen gas to nitrite. C) It converts nitrogen gas to ammonium. D) It converts ammonium to nitrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It converts nitrogen gas to ammonium. 23. What is one human action that may have caused global warming? A) Reducing our use of plastic. B) Recycling. C) Using alternate energy. D) Burning fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning fossil fuels. 24. Erosion is the removal and transport of surface material by ..... A) Water. B) Wind. C) Both water and wind. D) Neither water or wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both water and wind. 25. Release of water vapor from the leaves of plants into the air A) Translocation. B) Condensation. C) Transpiration. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transpiration. 26. What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)-? A) An act that deals with imposing liability on potentially liable parties for releases of harmful chemicals. B) An act that deals with regulation of the generation, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste. C) An act that encourages states to develop waste management programs. D) An act that is the comprehensive Federal law that regulates air emissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An act that deals with regulation of the generation, treatment, and disposal of hazardous waste. 27. True or False:Fertilizers used for growing crops always stay within the boundaries of the farm. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. A geothermal power plant gets energy by A) Holding water behind a dam. B) Circulating fluid underground. C) Pumping heated water or steam from rock formations. D) Using methane from decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pumping heated water or steam from rock formations. 29. Playing around during a lab is allowed. A) True, I agree. B) False, I do not agree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False, I do not agree. 30. Based on a review of the available scientific literature, Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina developed the idea that CFCs break down in the uppermost atmosphere and react with ozone, destroying it in the process. This idea would be called a(n) A) Controlled variable. B) Independent variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Model. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 31. This property of water is why people prefer living near large bodies of water in extreme temperatures. A) Cohesion. B) Universal Solvent. C) Ice Density. D) Resistance to Temperature Change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resistance to Temperature Change. 32. How many mussels are less than 25 mm in length? A) 9. B) 15. C) 12. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 33. Identify the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE:You experiment to see if a bouncy ball or a tennis ball bounces higher. A) Type of ball. B) Same drop height. C) Height of bounce. D) Same surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type of ball. 34. Which atmospheric gas is responsible for increasing the acidity of the ocean? A) Water Vapor. B) Nitrogen. C) Carbon Dioxide. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon Dioxide. 35. Wind power is the ..... energy source in the world. A) Most abundant. B) Most reliable. C) Least problematic. D) Fastest growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fastest growing. 36. Which ecosystem has a better chance of surviving when environmental conditions change over a long period of time? A) One with a great deal of biodiversity. B) One with plants and animals but no bacteria. C) One with animals and bacteria but no plants. D) One with little or no genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One with a great deal of biodiversity. 37. The term for environmental factors that limits a population irrespective of (not related to) its density is A) Density independent limiting factors. B) Intrinsic density dependent limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) Extrinsic density dependent limiting factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density independent limiting factors. 38. A volcano erupts destroying thousand of acres of forest giving scientists a chance to study how the environment rebuilds itself. This is what type of experiment? A) Controlled experiment. B) Natural experiment. C) Environmental experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural experiment. 39. High levels of GDP per capita indicate ..... A) Higher levels of happiness. B) Higher standard of living. C) Equal levels of wealth. D) Self-sufficient communities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Higher standard of living. 40. What is made up of all the living and nonliving things which an organism interacts with? A) Water Supply. B) Atmosphere. C) Soil. D) Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Environment. 41. ..... is the process of reclaiming raw materials and reusing them to create new products. A) Reducing. B) Repurposing. C) Composting. D) Recycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recycling. 42. Like a spaceship, Earth has a limited amount of air, water and natural resources considered a(n) A) Closed system. B) Open system. C) Ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Closed system. 43. What kind of species is the first to colonize an area during primary succession? A) Colonizer Species. B) Pioneer Species. C) Settler Species. D) Climax Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pioneer Species. 44. What are some factors that can increase a population's size? A) Immigration and births. B) Emigration and deaths. C) Clumped populations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigration and births. 45. What is the water that flows over land and collects in a stream or river? A) Watershed. B) Recharge zone. C) Water table. D) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Runoff. 46. Deliberately set, controlled small fire that removes flammable small trees and underbrush in the highest-risk forest areas A) Buffer zone. B) Overgrazing. C) Prescribed Burns. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prescribed Burns. 47. How is electricity generated in a coal powered plant? A) Heat from the burning coal boils water and produces steam which turns the turbines. B) Heat from the burning coal heats the air which turns the turbines. C) The turbine breaks down the coal into liquid fuel that powers the generator. D) The coal is heated until it vaporizes and the vapor is the distilled in the combustion chamber which turns the turbine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat from the burning coal boils water and produces steam which turns the turbines. 48. Which effect is not currently considered to be caused by global climate change? A) Reduction in Arctic sea ice. B) Rising sea levels. C) Increased precipitation worldwide. D) More severe tropical storms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increased precipitation worldwide. 49. Anthropogenic ozone is formed and located in which layer? A) Thermosphere. B) Exosphere. C) Stratosphere. D) Troposphere. E) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Troposphere. 50. What is one action that can be used to reduce global warming? A) Use more fossil fuels. B) Use less fossil fuels. C) Use more plastic containers. D) Reduce our recycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use less fossil fuels. 51. Which of the following is NOT an important effect of the agricultural revolution? A) Soil erosion. B) Pollution. C) Plant and animal domestication. D) Habitat destruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 52. In a positive feedback loop, each action creates a consequence that ..... the other action. A) Decreases. B) Has no effect on. C) Amplifies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amplifies. 53. What do we call the process of collecting and reusing old materials to make new products? A) Consumption. B) Recycling. C) Pollution. D) Disposal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling. 54. What keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun? A) Magnetism. B) Gravity. C) Friction. D) Elasticity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gravity. 55. Fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas that were formed over millions of years from decayed plants and animals. This process requires time, pressure, and heat and helps to create ..... A) Renewable Resources. B) Fossil Fuels. C) Dinosaurs. D) Fancy looking seashells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fossil Fuels. 56. Wind is part of what sphere of Earth? A) Airosphere. B) Windosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere. 57. Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres? A) Geosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrosphere. 58. A solid fossil fuel formed from the remains of land plants that are buried and exposed to intense heat and pressure for 300-400 million years A) Commercial energy. B) Crude oil. C) Coal. D) Petrochemical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 59. Local winds are produced by geographic features. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 60. When a measurement is repeatable and consistent it is said to have ..... A) High accuracy. B) High precision. C) Low accuracy. D) Low precision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High precision. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEnvironmental Sciences Quiz 1Environmental Sciences Quiz 2Environmental Sciences Quiz 3Environmental Sciences Quiz 4Environmental Sciences Quiz 5Environmental Sciences Quiz 6Environmental Sciences Quiz 7Environmental Sciences Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books