This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 135 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 135 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Nutrient availability, sunlight and temperature influences: A) What organisms are in an aquatic ecosystem. B) How much oxygen content is in the water. C) The salinity of the water. D) Where an organisms lives in an aquatic ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where an organisms lives in an aquatic ecosystem. 2. How much percent of the earth is ocean A) 10%. B) 50%. C) 90%. D) 70%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 70%. 3. What do control rods do in a nuclear reactor? A) Reduce heat produced by the uranium rods. B) Produce neutrons to increase the rate of reaction. C) Produce electricity. D) Regulate the rate of reaction by absorbing neutrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulate the rate of reaction by absorbing neutrons. 4. The more stuff we have, the greater our ..... A) Shoe size. B) Environmental prints. C) Ecological footprint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecological footprint. 5. Name three types of natural resources. A) Fictional resources. B) Imaginary resources. C) Artificial resources. D) Renewable resources, Non-renewable resources, Biological resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Renewable resources, Non-renewable resources, Biological resources. 6. Soil pollution is a major concern in ..... countries. A) Industrial. B) Developing. C) Industrial and developing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrial and developing. 7. In which organelle does photosynthesis occur? A) Cell Wall. B) Chlorophyll. C) Chloroplast. D) Cytoplasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chloroplast. 8. Which of the following are used in the light dependent reactions? A) Crest. B) Cytoplasm. C) Thylakoids. D) Stroma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thylakoids. 9. Has a role in understanding and helping the environment A) Mathematics. B) Politics. C) Science. D) Social Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Science. 10. When a species is forced to go extinct A) Ecosystem continue to thrive. B) It reduces the planets biodiversity. C) New species emerge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It reduces the planets biodiversity. 11. Which two kingdoms do not contain organisms with cells that can perform photosynthesis? A) Animal and Fungi. B) Plant and Archaea. C) Plant and Eubacteria. D) Animal and Protists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Animal and Fungi. 12. The amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc. A) Carbon Footprint. B) Carbon Reservoir or Carbon Sink. C) Carbon Cycle. D) Carbon Offset. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon Footprint. 13. The mudskipper, mangrove trees, cicadas, bracket fungi and monitor lizard in Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve are a ..... A) Community. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Community. 14. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in areas of the Pacific Ocean called the "Ring of Fire." Scientists agree that the reason for this is A) That part of the Earth is hotter than all other parts of Earth. B) A large number of people live in these areas. C) The ocean weighs so much that it forces magma up. D) Plate boundaries are located in those areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plate boundaries are located in those areas. 15. Technique of cultivation and breeding of forest plants is called: A) Floriculture. B) Horticulture. C) Silviculture. D) Forestry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silviculture. 16. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers is called a/an A) Surface water. B) Watershed. C) Aquifer. D) Groundwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Groundwater. 17. What is the lion in this food chain? A) Secondary consumer. B) Tertiary consumer. C) Primary consumer. D) Quaternary consumer. E) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tertiary consumer. 18. Law of conservation of energy states that energy can not be created or destroyed. It is just transferred from one thing to another. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What are the two main factors determining climate? A) Average temperature and amount of cloud cover. B) Proximity to a body of water and average temperature. C) The jet stream and average amount of precipitation. D) Average temperature and average precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Average temperature and average precipitation. 20. What is the term for taxes imposed on companies that participate in activities or produce products that are harmful to the environment? A) Green Taxes. B) Cap Taxes. C) Tax Breaks. D) Trade Taxes. E) Subsidies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green Taxes. 21. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. A) True, according to the first law of thermodynamics. B) False, according to the first law of thermodynamics. C) True, according to the second law of thermodynamics. D) False, according to the second law of thermodynamics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True, according to the first law of thermodynamics. 22. The relative arrangement of the members of a statistical population A) Mean. B) Statistics. C) Probability. D) Distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Distribution. 23. A scientific hypothesis: A) Is a prediction about something that has not yet been observed but that you want to test in a controlled manner. B) Always consists of one independent variable to be measured by a scientist. C) Is a testable proposition that explains an observed phenomenon or answers a question. D) Includes the design of an experiment that can be used in scientific inquiry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is a testable proposition that explains an observed phenomenon or answers a question. 24. If 2000 kcal/m2/year of primary production occurs at the producer level of this food web, how much energy will be present for the secondary consumer level? A) 200kcal/m2/year. B) 2kcal/m2/year. C) 2000kcal/m2/year. D) 20kcal/m2/year. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20kcal/m2/year. 25. Independent variables depend on experimental conditions. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 26. ..... is the frozen water part of the Earth system. A) Biosphere. B) Lithosphere or Geosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Hydrosphere. E) Cryosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cryosphere. 27. Limestone islands in the sea built by coral animals. A) Taiga. B) Temperate forest. C) Coral Reef. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coral Reef. 28. What drives oceanic currents? A) Wind. B) Waves. C) Animal migration. D) Tectonic plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind. 29. What is species richness? A) Number of ecosystems in a given area. B) Number of different species in a given area. C) Number of individuals in a species. D) Number of different genes in a species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Number of different species in a given area. 30. Nitrogen is essential for living organisms to make: A) Carbohydrates. B) Lipids. C) Proteins. D) Fats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proteins. 31. A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place. A) Community. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 32. A carpenter makes ..... A) Cakes. B) Pots. C) Pipes. D) Tables and chairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tables and chairs. 33. What do you call a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit? A) Commensalism. B) Competition. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. E) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Mutualism. 34. What is the Lincoln Index also known as? A) Diversity index. B) Mark, release and recapture. C) Species richness index. D) Biodiversity index. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mark, release and recapture. 35. Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 ways humans are currently combating deforestation? A) Managing forest resources. B) Eliminating clear cutting. C) Reforestation. D) Encouraging clear cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Encouraging clear cutting. 36. True or False:Surface water always moves from higher elevation to lower elevation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. An organism's job, or way of life, is its A) Niche. B) Community. C) Habitat. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niche. 38. Variable that depends on the conditions set up in the experiment. A) Dependent Variable. B) Independent Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent Variable. 39. The ..... climate has cool summers, bitterly cold winters and permafrost. A) Tundra. B) Desert. C) Marine continental. D) Tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tundra. 40. Deposits of natural gas are most numerous in ..... A) The Middle East. B) Panama. C) South America. D) USA and Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA and Russia. 41. The function of Structural Enzymes, and the forming of muscles/skin/organs ..... A) Carbohydrates. B) Lipids. C) Nucleic Acids. D) Proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proteins. 42. This person was the founder of the Sierra Club A) Aldo Leopold. B) Gifford Pinchot. C) John Muir. D) Theodore Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Muir. 43. ..... destroys plants, pollutes water sources and soil and erodes buildings A) Gases. B) Evaporation. C) Acid rain. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Acid rain. 44. The main component of photochemical smog is A) Water vapour. B) Sulphur dioxide. C) Oxides of nitrogen. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. Biggest source of fresh water A) Groundwater. B) Lakes. C) Oceans. D) Icebergs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Groundwater. 46. Population levels are considered to be normal for their survival A) Vulnerable species. B) Normal species. C) Rare species. D) Endangered species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Normal species. 47. These bacteria incorporate sulfur into sulfate salts which can be taken up by plants A) Aerobic bacteria. B) Anaerobic bacteria. C) Both A & B. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aerobic bacteria. 48. Farming of the ocean A) Agriculture. B) Terracing. C) Sustainability. D) Aquaculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aquaculture. 49. Unregulated consumption of shared resources leading to depletion. A) Tragedy of the Commons. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Ecological Footprint. D) Resource Conservation Ethic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy of the Commons. 50. Most air pollution is caused by ..... A) The burning of fossil fuels. B) Solar and wind energy products. C) CFC's from cheese whiz and hairspray. D) Eased methane levels from livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The burning of fossil fuels. 51. Which law is a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats? A) Clean Air Act. B) Safe Drinking Water Act. C) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). D) Clean Water Act. E) Endangered Species Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Endangered Species Act. 52. Punishment if rules are broken A) Cap and trade. B) Subsidies. C) Tax breaks. D) Regulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulation. 53. Renewable energy sources CAN be depleted if used too fast. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. Which type of macromolecule is the main source of energy for living things? A) Proteins. B) Nucleic acids. C) Carbohydrates. D) Lipids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbohydrates. 55. What are the two main strategies for managing solid waste? A) Source reduction and incineration. B) Source reduction and recovery. C) Source reduction and composting. D) Recovery and incineration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Source reduction and recovery. 56. A diagram which shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another is A) An Ecosystem. B) A Food Web. C) An Energy Pyramid. D) A Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An Energy Pyramid. 57. During which part of the environmental policy process is lobbying used? A) Proposing a solution. B) Pinpointing a problem. C) Gaining access. D) Gathering data. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gaining access. 58. Substances that can eat through or dissolve metal storage tanks and equipment are called A) Ignitable. B) Toxic. C) Corrosive. D) Reactive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corrosive. 59. A three-dimensional model you can touch A) Control group. B) Conceptual model. C) Physical model. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical model. 60. 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