This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 138 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 138 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Earth has a fixed amount of ..... A) Trees. B) Carbon. C) Carbon dioxide. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon. 2. What form of electromagnetic waves are felt as heat? A) Ultraviolet radiation. B) Visible light. C) Greenhouse radiation. D) Infrared radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infrared radiation. 3. An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant is in the same type of pot and has the same amount of soil and sunlight. What is the independent variable? A) The type of liquid the plant gets. B) The type of pot the plant is in. C) The amount of sunlight. D) The type of plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The type of liquid the plant gets. 4. The fossil fuels are this. A) Crop rotation. B) Environmental Science. C) Nonrenewable resources. D) Ecological footprint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonrenewable resources. 5. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere A) Has been decreasing since the 1800's. B) Can not be reliably measured. C) Is increasing in part due to deforestation. D) Is increasing in part due to fossil fuel use. E) Has not significantly changed in the past 200 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is increasing in part due to fossil fuel use. 6. It is a vital substance that is needed by all living things. A) Sun. B) Stars. C) Water. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water. 7. ..... people are moving from farms to cities than are moving from cities to farms A) Fewer. B) More. C) Equivalent numbers of. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More. 8. Primary pollutants are A) Ill. B) Ill. C) Storm. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 9. Which pollutant is NOT typically found in the air surrounding CAFOs? A) Hydrogen Sulfide. B) Methane. C) Cinnamon. D) Ammonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cinnamon. 10. An biotic factor is: A) Living. B) Non-living. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living. 11. Which regulation makes states in charge of managing hazardous waste? A) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. B) Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act. C) Clean Water Act. D) Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. 12. Water is the only substance that can exist in all 3 states; Liquid, gas and solid. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What is an adaptation of an alveoli? A) Rough walls. B) Soft walls. C) Thin walls. D) Thick walls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thin walls. 14. ..... is the information obtained from a scientist A) Hypothesis. B) Prediction. C) Data. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. 15. The high heat capacity of water causes what effect when combined with ocean circulation? A) The high salinity of deep polar water in the thermocline cycle. B) Warm temperatures in continental coastal areas. C) The suppression of upwelling during an ENSO event. D) The heat transfer between the ocean and atmosphere due to evaporation along the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Warm temperatures in continental coastal areas. 16. What is biodiesel production related to? A) Capture sunlight and convert it into electricity. B) Generate wind energy. C) Reduce emissions from internal combustion engines. D) Convert vegetable oils and animal fats into a renewable fuel source. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convert vegetable oils and animal fats into a renewable fuel source. 17. Which of the following hypotheses is written correctly? A) If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high. B) If a tennis ball is frozen, it won't bounce as high as one that is not frozen. C) Frozen tennis balls will not bounce as high. D) If I heat up a tennis ball it will bounce high. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high. 18. How is the ocean involved in the carbon cycle? A) Aquatic plants absorb CO2 to perform photosynthesis. B) The surface of the ocean absorbs and dissolves CO2. C) Certain aquatic plants take in carbon to make their shells. D) The ocean releases carbon that was stored in the remains of dead organisms. E) All of the options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the options are correct. 19. Which one is a fossil fuel? A) Oil. B) Wind. C) Hydro. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oil. 20. A factory is located next to a river. The factory has a sewage pipe running straight out of the factory and into the river. This is an example of ..... A) Non-point pollution. B) Point source pollution. C) Tertiary receiving stream. D) Primary treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point source pollution. 21. When roots become saturated with water due to over-irrigation, it causes death in plant roots. This is called: A) Desertification. B) Salinization. C) Waterlogging. D) Agroforestry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waterlogging. 22. Developing countries have all but which of the following? A) Lower average incomes. B) A good amount of land per person. C) Rapid population growth. D) Agriculture based economies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A good amount of land per person. 23. Good scientist/citizens demonstrate the habit of mind called ..... when they do not believe everything they are told. A) Skepticism. B) Intellectual honesty. C) Curiosity. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skepticism. 24. How much energy moves up each level of the energy pyramid? A) 90%. B) 10%. C) 50%. D) 5%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10%. 25. What are all living things made of? A) Carbon. B) Nitrogen. C) Phosphorus. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon. 26. Air pollution which can occur indoors is attributed to ..... A) Chemical compounds in plastic products. B) All of the options. C) Asbestos. D) Radon gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of the options. 27. Renewable resource is to nonrenewable resource as A) Trees is to oil. B) Trees is to sunlight. C) Iron is to water. D) Water is to trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trees is to oil. 28. An area has an average daily temperature of 86$^\circ$F and an average annual rainfall of 6 centimeters. Which type of climate zone is this area most likely to be? A) Polar. B) Temperate. C) Tropical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical. 29. Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated? A) Spirally. B) Unevenly. C) Circularly. D) Kinetically. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unevenly. 30. Select the correct order of waves on the EMS from the longest wavelength to the shortest wavelength A) Vis, Micro, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma, Radio. B) Gamma, X-ray, Ultra, Vis, Infra, Micro, Radio. C) Radio, Micro, Infra, Visible, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. D) Micro, Radio, Vis, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radio, Micro, Infra, Visible, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. 31. Among the levels of organization, in which level do spinal cord belongs? A) Organs. B) . System. C) Population. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organs. 32. A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ..... A) Continents are moving. B) The Earth's magnetic pole flips. C) The sea floor is spreading. D) Continents were once joined. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continents are moving. 33. The buildup of soil in aquatic ecosystems A) Contour farming. B) Loaming. C) Siltation. D) Cover crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siltation. 34. What is causing many animals, such as the box turtle's habitat to be fragmented? A) Houses. B) Roads. C) Powerlines. D) Streams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roads. 35. How did they transport the statues around Easter Island? A) Pulled with logs and ropes. B) Carried by the natives. C) Pulled by ropes making them "walk". D) The aliens transported them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulled by ropes making them "walk". 36. Bees pollinating our crops would be considered what type of ecosystem service? A) Supporting. B) Provisioning. C) Regulating. D) Cultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supporting. 37. Fill in the blank:Sun $\rightarrow$ ..... $\rightarrow$ Consumer $\rightarrow$ Decomposer A) Rain. B) Omnivore. C) Producer. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producer. 38. The organisms rank on the pyramid is the ..... A) Trophic Level. B) Food Web. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trophic Level. 39. Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth's surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource? A) Wind. B) Biomass. C) Geothermal energy. D) Solar energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geothermal energy. 40. Water supply to the reservoir should be the following: A) Irregular and small in volume with cold climate. B) Regular and small in volume with a dry climate. C) Irregular and large in volume with a hot climate. D) Regular and large in volume with a cold climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regular and large in volume with a cold climate. 41. Look at the Vocab Picture, "Survivorship Curve" What organism is in the middle of Juan's graph? A) Monkey. B) Mr. Graham. C) Bird. D) Donkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bird. 42. Which of the following is NOT a way to combat climate change? A) Cap-and-trade. B) Weakening restrictions in the Clean air act. C) Carbon Taxes. D) Carbon offsets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weakening restrictions in the Clean air act. 43. ..... Observations are factual descriptions or Measurements. A) Quantitative. B) Qualitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantitative. 44. The gene pool of two populations is separated. The populations may develop into a new species and this is called ..... A) Interspecific competition. B) Natural selection. C) Speciation. D) Genetic separation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speciation. 45. Which type of plate boundary is located at the San Andreas Fault? A) Convergent. B) Transform. C) Subduction. D) Divergent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transform. 46. Which is a major source of air pollution created by humans? A) Hydroelectric plants. B) Industrial factories. C) Nuclear power. D) Reforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial factories. 47. Climate change and the warming of our oceans will likely make global inequalities worse, partially because catches in tropical regions are expected to decrease A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. The total effect of a large number of people exploiting resources and degrading them due to each person thinking their little waste, pollution doesn't matter is known as the 'The Tragedy of Commons'. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 49. Manipulated factor, the variable a scientist manipulates (change) in an experiment A) Dependent variable. B) Independent variable. C) Controlled variable. D) Responding variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent variable. 50. The purpose of a code of ethics is A) Set standards for a profession. B) Know our unique values and makes decisions based off them. C) Be a guide for professional behavior. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 51. Which of the following statements best describes the composition of air? A) Air is only made up of oxygen. B) Air is only made up of carbon dioxide. C) Air is only made up of nitrogen. D) Air is made up of a mixture of different gasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Air is made up of a mixture of different gasses. 52. The bars used to count frequencies are called ..... A) Tally Marks. B) Bars. C) Range. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tally Marks. 53. What is a controlled fire to clear fire fuel called? A) Prescribed burn. B) Unplanned ignition. C) Random blaze. D) Wildfire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prescribed burn. 54. True or False:Scientists determine population size by counting every single individual in a population. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. The deepest point on the ocean floor is in the A) Pacific Ocean. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Arctic Ocean. D) Indian Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific Ocean. 56. ..... is the study of how living things interact with biotic and abiotic factors in their environment. A) Ecology. B) Geology. C) Physics. D) Environmental Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 57. Which of the following is a long term natural event that affects climate? A) The boy. B) Forest fires. C) Ice ages. D) Volcanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice ages. 58. What is the main focus of anthropocentrism? A) Protection and promotion of human interests. B) Preservation of ecosystems. C) Equal consideration for all living things. D) Sustainable development. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protection and promotion of human interests. 59. The ..... the elevation, the ..... the temperature. A) Higher, colder. B) Lower, colder. C) Lower, worse. D) Higher, warmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Higher, colder. 60. Hardin s Tragedy of the Commons essay addresses the conflicts associated with what environmental challenge? 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