This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 149 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 149 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An example of abiotic things in your pond ecosystem is A) Dwarf frog. B) Chara. C) Gravel. D) Daphnia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravel. 2. Environmental Science: A) The circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms. B) A philosophy that has led social movement with the consequences Impact of of human activities on the environment. C) Concern about and action aimed at protecting the environment. D) The systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it. 3. Which of the following is not a property of water? A) Low specific heat capacity. B) Anomalous expansion on freezing. C) Transport medium. D) Universal solvent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low specific heat capacity. 4. ..... is colorless, tasteless, odorless, and radioactive. A) Radon gas. B) Fossil fuels. C) Radium. D) Halon gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radon gas. 5. Hydroelectric power produces electricity using ..... A) Wind. B) Sunlight. C) Moving water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving water. 6. Homologous structures are derived from the same structures in the embryo but: A) Disappear in the adults. B) Develop to carry out different functions in the adults. C) Continue to grow throughout adulthood. D) Become useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Develop to carry out different functions in the adults. 7. What are the main components of acid rain A) Phosphorous acid and sodium hyrdoxide. B) Sulfuric acid and nitric acid. C) Ethanoic acid and sulfuric acid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sulfuric acid and nitric acid. 8. What are some ways human impact ecosystems? A) Over farming, burning, release of grasslands. B) Eating too much. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Over farming, burning, release of grasslands. 9. When land becomes more desertlike because of human activity or climate change. A) Erosion. B) Salinization. C) Compost. D) Desertification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desertification. 10. Coniferous forests are generally located A) At high temperatures. B) In the Northern Hemisphere. C) Near deserts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the Northern Hemisphere. 11. Countries with high growth rates usually have an age structure that has A) An even distribution over all ages. B) More older people than young people. C) More younger people than older people. D) More middle-aged people than younger people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More younger people than older people. 12. The temperature of the ice water is 10$^\circ$C. A) Qualitative data. B) Quantitative data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantitative data. 13. Before coal has formed over millions of years, it is a wet, sampling of decaying plant material called ..... A) Peat. B) Mud. C) Peanut Butter. D) Sedimentary Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peat. 14. Which kingdom contains organisms that are multicellular autotrophs? A) Animal. B) Fungi. C) Plant. D) Archaebacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plant. 15. What is the second highest level of the forest? A) Upper Canopy. B) Understory. C) Forest Floor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understory. 16. Which of the following is not an environmental effect of deforestation? A) Re-establishment of trees. B) Loss of topsoil. C) Reduction of wildlife habitat. D) Soil erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Re-establishment of trees. 17. The goal of environmental problem solving is to achieve ..... A) A way to waste fossil fuels. B) A solution for some environmental problems. C) All of the options. D) A sustainable world. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sustainable world. 18. Which of the following biomes would support and be characterized by the greatest number and diversity of herbivores? A) Tundra. B) Short. C) Taiga. D) Grasslands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grasslands. 19. What are the two stages of photosynthesis? A) Calvin Cycle and Krebs Cycle. B) ATP and ADP. C) Light Dependent and LIght Independent reactions. D) Light sensitive and cellular respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light Dependent and LIght Independent reactions. 20. Which of the following has a bigger impact on your eco footprint? A) How much TV you watch. B) Length of your shower/bath. C) Type of Foot you eat. D) Type of Phone you have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Type of Foot you eat. 21. Grassland that receives less than 50 cm of annual rainfall. A) Prairie. B) Steppe. C) Grasslands. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steppe. 22. In which atmospheric layer is most water vapor found? A) Mesosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 23. During which period in human history were most of our modern environmental problems introduced? A) Biotechnology Era. B) Hunter-gatherer. C) Agricultural. D) Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrial Revolution. 24. The act of one organism consuming another for food is called what? A) Prey. B) Prada. C) Predation. D) Predator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predation. 25. What percentage of the global population lives in developed countries? What percentage of Earth's resources do they use?What percentage of the world's pollution do they cause? A) 10%, 80%, 75%. B) 25%, 98%, 80%. C) 19%, 88%, 75%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19%, 88%, 75%. 26. The massive spike in population growth that has occurred in the past 100 years is due to A) Modern medicine. B) Increased sanitation. C) Improved agriculture. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 27. What is the very next thing that happens after fertilisers enter a river in eutrophication? A) Plants below the surface die due to a lack of sunlight. B) Fish die due to a lack of oxygen. C) Fast growth of plants. D) The number of aerobic bacteria increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fast growth of plants. 28. What river caught fire in 1969 from all of the waste and pollution filling it? A) Des Plaines River, Illinois. B) Cuyahoga River, Ohio. C) Mississippi River, Louisiana. D) East River, New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cuyahoga River, Ohio. 29. What protects the earth from harmful UV rays from the sun? A) Clouds. B) Ionosphere. C) The ozone. D) Nitrogen gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ozone. 30. Hetch Hetchy was a beautiful valley in Yosemite. It damming in the 1920's caused major controversy among environmentalists. Opposition was led by John Muir and the Sierra Club. A) Sustainable world. B) Nonrenewable resource. C) Rachel Carson. D) Hetch Hetchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hetch Hetchy. 31. Assuming North is at the top of the map, which side of the mountain whose peak is 682.5 m is the steepest? A) Southeast. B) Northwest. C) East. D) North. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Northwest. 32. Environmental science does not consider the economic costs and benefits of environmental policies and actions. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 33. Which of the following government organizations is responsible for maintaining and enforcing environmental standards and laws? A) DOE-Department of Energy. B) NOOA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. C) EPA-Environmental Protection Agency. D) USGS-United States Geological Survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) EPA-Environmental Protection Agency. 34. Which procedure helps guard against faulty science contaminating the literature on which all scientists rely? A) Sustainable use. B) Theorizing. C) Considering ethics. D) Peer review. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peer review. 35. ..... succession is a progression that begins with a total lack of organisms and bare minerals or water. A) Primary. B) Secondary. C) Land. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 36. East or west amity is the ..... A) Good. B) Better. C) Best. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Best. 37. What characteristic of a cactus could be found in many other desert plants? A) Leaves and stems that are adapted to conserve water. B) A deep root system for gathering water. C) Lush growth that serves to trap water if it rains. D) Broad leaves that protect the plants from the hot sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leaves and stems that are adapted to conserve water. 38. The rotation of Earth on its axis is gradually slowing. This change in rotation rate will MOST likely cause the A) Length of the orbit around the Sun to become shorter. B) Length of days on Earth to become longer. C) Changing of seasons on Earth to occur more quickly. D) Phases of the moon to change more slowly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Length of days on Earth to become longer. 39. Industrialization is a contributing factor to climate change. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. A top predator ..... A) Has no natural enemies. B) Is a meat eater. C) Is a heterotroph. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 41. Polluted groundwater is difficult to clean up because A) Groundwater is deep in the ground and dispersed through large areas of rock. B) Pollutants cling to the materials that make up the aquifer and contaminate the clean water. C) The recycling process of groundwater can take hundreds or thousands of years. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 42. Cannot be broken down by biological processes A) Paper. B) Plastic. C) Yard waste. D) Plant waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plastic. 43. Why is freshwater important? A) So we can have lakes and Rivers. B) There is no such thing as freshwater. C) We need it to survive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We need it to survive. 44. This professional plays a vital role in maintaining the safety of the public by researching trends in data related to weather. Some professionals broadcast over media outlets when extreme weather warnings are in effect. A) Epidemiologist. B) Physicist. C) Hydrologist. D) Meteorologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meteorologist. 45. A carbon containing fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things A) Nonrenewable. B) Black Gold. C) Fossil Fuel. D) Petrified Dinosaurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil Fuel. 46. New individuals move into a population. A) Emigration. B) Immigration. C) Survivorship. D) Migration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigration. 47. Upper soil layers holding air and water make up the A) Zone of aeration. B) Zone of saturation. C) Zone of alliteration. D) Recharge zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zone of aeration. 48. Warmer, less salty water moves along the surface of the ocean, while cooler saltier water moves deep beneath the ocean. This ocean movement is referred to as ..... A) Global warming. B) Thermohaline circulation. C) The boy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thermohaline circulation. 49. Who was Garret Hardin? A) Father of Evolution. B) Author of pride & Prejudice. C) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. D) Won the nobel prize in ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. 50. Which of the following is NOT a step in the scientific method? A) Theory of relativity. B) Retest. C) Collect Data. D) State Observations about the problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theory of relativity. 51. If new information conflicts with previous findings, what should the scientist do? A) Keep the new information to themselves. B) Evaluate the new information. C) Argue against the new information. D) Ignore the new information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaluate the new information. 52. Pythons in the Everglades and Lionfish in the Atlantic are examples of A) Pioneer species. B) Keystone species. C) Native species. D) Invasive species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invasive species. 53. An ocean, a forest, and a grassy meadow are each examples of a complete ecosystem. Complete ecosystems contain ..... A) Only animals. B) Only rocks and water. C) Living and nonliving things. D) Populations of plants and animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living and nonliving things. 54. Environments have changed over millions of years. Which of these would be best for a scientist to study when investigating these environmental changes? A) Weather forecasts. B) Ocean currents. C) Volcanic deposits. D) Fossil records. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil records. 55. Which of the following is NOT a heat-trapping greenhouse gas? A) Water vapor. B) Methane. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxygen. 56. Which equation best represents net energy? A) Net energy = high-quality energy + low-quality energy. B) Net energy = energy input-energy output. C) Net energy = initial low-quality energy-final high-quality energy. D) Net energy = energy output + energy input. E) Net energy = energy output-energy input. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Net energy = energy output-energy input. 57. ..... are when the warmer air above keeps the cooler air at the surface from moving upward so pollutants are trapped below with the cooler air near the Earth's surface. A) Greenhouse effect. B) Temperature inversion. C) Smog. D) Acid shock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature inversion. 58. Identify which sphere is DIRECTLY affected:The BP oil spill with dumped more than 200 millions of gallons of crude oil into the gulf of mexico A) Atmosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrosphere. 59. The shallow edge of a lake where most things live A) Littoral Zone. B) Upwelling. C) Lake Overturn. D) Eutrophic Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Littoral Zone. 60. Kinetic energy is A) The energy of motion. B) Stored energy. C) Energy that takes up space. D) None of above. 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