This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 112 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 112 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of the following environmental issues is the primary cause of the others? A) Increasing Resource Use. B) Human Population Growth. C) Destruction of Habitat. D) Premature Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human Population Growth. 2. A declining population of one species can affect an entire what? A) Community. B) Habitat. C) Edge effect. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 3. Only about ..... of energy is passed to each trophic level. A) 0%. B) 10%. C) 90%. D) 15%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10%. 4. Characterized by rapid population growth, lower average incomes and agriculture-based economies like Brazil and India A) Tragedy of the commons. B) Industrial revolution. C) Developed countries. D) Developing countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Developing countries. 5. Most unknown species belong to this group A) Insects. B) Fungi. C) Biodiversity hotspot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insects. 6. The gradually sloping part of a continent that extends under the ocean is the ..... A) Abyssal plain. B) Trench. C) Continental shelf. D) Continental slope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continental shelf. 7. Why are certain biomes considered "dry" ? A) Because they have no tress. B) Because the temperature is always high. C) Because there is a low amount of rainfall. D) Because there is little net primary production. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because there is a low amount of rainfall. 8. The Clean Air Act is monitored and enforced by the A) GSA-Government Services Agency. B) The Paris Accord. C) EPA-Environmental Protection Agency. D) Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EPA-Environmental Protection Agency. 9. Location where carbon resides A) Reservoirs. B) Oceans. C) Fossil pools. D) Fluxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reservoirs. 10. ..... are faster than postcards and inland letters. A) Newspapers. B) Emails. C) None. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emails. 11. Scientific evidence indicates that extinction rates in the past few centuries have risen mainly due to natural causes. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. A (An) ..... is a pollutant that does not rot or break down in the environment. A) Biodegradablepollutant. B) Nonbiodegradable pollutant. C) Animal product. D) Plant product. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonbiodegradable pollutant. 13. Rules and regulations that governs how humans interact with their environment. A) Environmental issues. B) Environmental ethics. C) Environmental law. D) Environmental science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environmental law. 14. Non-renewable or Renewable:Water A) Non-Renewable. B) Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 15. In the vocab picture, "Logistic Growth, " which factors level the population size and cut off exponential growth? A) Water, space, food, disease, predators. B) Ice, fire, dandruff, donuts. C) Fatty acids, amino acids, lava, grapes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water, space, food, disease, predators. 16. Air's ability to hold water vapor increase as ..... increases. A) Wind speed. B) Temperature. C) Air pressure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature. 17. Lead is a carcinogen, which means A) It is a chemical which causes cancer. B) It causes people to go hungry from a shortage of food. C) It is a chemical which is probably fine in small amounts. D) None of the other options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is a chemical which causes cancer. 18. Environmental science studies which types of interactions between humans and the environment? A) How humans use natural resources. B) How humans relate to the nonliving environment. C) How humans actions alter the environment. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. A ..... ship takes you on a holiday. A) Cargo. B) Cruise. C) Large boat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cruise. 20. Matter with no definite volume and no definite shape is a ..... A) Plasma. B) Solid. C) Liquid. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gas. 21. How many cells are found in Archaebacteria? A) Unicellular. B) Multicellular. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unicellular. 22. When the media repeats the same stories and headlines, it is bias by A) Prejudice. B) The source. C) Numbers and statistics. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 23. Which of the following are examples of secondary pollutants? A) Carbon Dioxide and Smog. B) Acid Rain and Ozone. C) Ozone and PM. D) Acid Rain and Carbon Dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acid Rain and Ozone. 24. You can not see air around you, because it is ..... colour. A) Many. B) No. C) None of these. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 25. When organisms use sunlight to make sugar, this process is known as A) Biomagnification. B) Photosynthesis. C) Cellular respiration. D) Carbohydrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photosynthesis. 26. How does carbon dioxide leave the atmosphere? A) Sunlight. B) Through factory emission. C) Through photosynthesis. D) Through transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Through photosynthesis. 27. A carbon footprint is the contribution of carbon by A) Humans. B) Extinct animals. C) Plants. D) The ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humans. 28. What part of the carbon cycle releases carbon held in coal and oil deposits? A) Respiration. B) Combustion. C) Exchange. D) Burial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Combustion. 29. The relationship between 2 items is A) Developed countries. B) Developing countries. C) Your ecological footprint. D) Correlation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Correlation. 30. A food chain shows A) How energy passes from consumers to producers. B) The amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. C) The flow of energy through a series of organisms. D) Biotic and abiotic factors in an area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The flow of energy through a series of organisms. 31. Identify the following as a renewable or nonrenewable resource:Chicken A) Nonrenewable. B) Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 32. Which of the following represents a freshwater ecosystem? A) Ocean. B) Sea. C) Wetlands. D) Saltwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wetlands. 33. Environmental policy addresses all of the following issues EXCEPT ..... A) Natural disasters. B) Air pollution. C) Water pollution. D) Overfishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural disasters. 34. Where plates slide passed each other. A) Convergent boundaries. B) Divergent boundaries. C) Transform boundaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transform boundaries. 35. What is labeled B? A) Evaporation. B) Precipitation. C) Condensation. D) Inflitration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condensation. 36. Free-swimming organisms A) Temperature. B) Pond. C) Nekton. D) Benthos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nekton. 37. Why do peppered moths tend to be the same color as the trees on which they live? A) It makes the moths harder to see. B) It makes the moths faster than the birds. C) It keeps the moth the same temperature as the tree. D) The coloring goes along with tasting like the tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It makes the moths harder to see. 38. It is the capacity of the earth and human beings to survive to conditions in the next generation. A) Ecology. B) Biocapacity. C) Ecosystem. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sustainability. 39. How does climate change impact ecosystems? A) Climate change only impacts temperature and precipitation. B) Climate change only impacts extreme weather events. C) Climate change impacts ecosystems by altering temperature and precipitation patterns, causing shifts in species distribution, disrupting food webs, and increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. D) Climate change has no impact on ecosystems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate change impacts ecosystems by altering temperature and precipitation patterns, causing shifts in species distribution, disrupting food webs, and increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. 40. How do consumers get nitrogen? A) Eating plants and animals. B) Absorbing it through their skin. C) Taking in nitrates from soil. D) Taking vitamins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eating plants and animals. 41. Something to create a sense of belonging could be A) Trees. B) Parking lots. C) Welcome signs. D) Stop signs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Welcome signs. 42. Hunter-Gathered Period A) Where people work in factories. B) Where stay in one place and farm. C) Where people followed animals for food. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where people followed animals for food. 43. What might help to restrain global warming? A) Increasing deforestation. B) Ceasing cutting down trees. C) Stabilising deforestation. D) Clearing more trees for farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ceasing cutting down trees. 44. ..... :maximum number of individuals in a particular population that its environment can support A) Limiting factor. B) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carrying capacity. 45. A small family is also called a ..... family. A) Nuclear. B) Large. C) Joint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuclear. 46. Which species is the key to the health of an ecosystem? A) Endemic. B) Keystone. C) Indicator. D) Native. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keystone. 47. Overshooting the carrying capacity of a population's environment leads to a population crash. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. In which part of our body do we have brain and hair A) Leg. B) Hand. C) Nose. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Head. 49. Which is one reason that trash and litter can hurt wildlife? A) Wildlife are afraid of human garbage. B) Trash covers the scent of other animals they are hunting. C) Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them. D) Trash and litter removes their camouflage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them. 50. Sunlight, wind and water are ..... resources A) Renewable. B) Semirenewable. C) Nonrenewable. D) Unrenewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable. 51. To prevent sunburn, we monitor the atmosphere's ability to filter out which form of radiation? A) Ultraviolet. B) Conduction. C) Visible. D) Infrared. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ultraviolet. 52. It is the study of human population, dynamics and statistics. A) Sociology. B) Geology. C) Transpiration. D) Psychology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sociology. 53. After a scientist concludes their research they hold a ..... to discuss it. A) Review. B) Seminar. C) Discussion. D) Press Conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Press Conference. 54. Electrostatic precipitators can be used to remove this type of air pollutant. A) Ground level ozone. B) Volatile organic compounds. C) Particulate matter. D) Sulfur dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Particulate matter. 55. The amount of food available for the world's population A) Green revolution. B) Malnutrition. C) World food supply. D) Calories. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World food supply. 56. The industrial Revolution led to factories and ..... A) Farming. B) Machinery. C) Human labor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Machinery. 57. The wall of a coal seam A) Long wall. B) Bond. C) Alloy. D) Quarry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long wall. 58. Lack of vegetation leads to all Except? A) More run-off. B) Biodiversity. C) Desertification. D) More carbon in the atmoshpere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biodiversity. 59. The marine biological crisis occurring today is a result of all of the following EXCEPT: A) Water pollution. B) Overfishing. C) Habitat loss. D) Increased demand for hydroelectric power. E) Warming waters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased demand for hydroelectric power. 60. Which of the following species is extinct? A) Passenger pigeon. B) Giant panda. C) Bald eagle. D) Green sea turtle. 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