This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. During photosynthesis, carbon is moved from which reservoir (sink) to which reservoir (sink)? A) From the lithosphere to the terrestrial biosphere. B) From the hydrosphere to the terrestrial biosphere. C) From the troposphere to the terrestrial biosphere. D) From the atmosphere to the terrestrial biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From the atmosphere to the terrestrial biosphere. 2. TRUE or FALSE? Invasive species grow quickly due to the lack of predators. This leads to a decline or extinction of the native population. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 3. The disappearance of a particular population from a given area, but not of the entire species globally, is called A) Fragmentation. B) Extirpation. C) Poaching. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extirpation. 4. Which of the following is/are true about environmental impact statements? A) They are used to evaluate the impact of a project. B) They are required before beginning large construction projects. C) They were part of legislation enacted by President Nixon. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. What is the basic unit of matter? A) Compounds. B) Atoms. C) Macromolecules. D) Solutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atoms. 6. Select true or false:Nuclear power stations use uranium as fuel to make electricity. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 7. Volcanoes ..... gases to the atmosphere. A) Add. B) Remove. C) Both add and remove. D) Neither add nor remove. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Add. 8. Photosynthesis, water cycle, nutrient cycling, habitat formation, soil formation and services that promote life on Earth are examples of? A) Supporting services. B) Provisioning services. C) Regulating services. D) Cultural services. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supporting services. 9. What is energy flow in an ecosystem? A) Energy flow in an ecosystem refers to the transfer of energy from one organism to another through food chains and food webs. B) Energy flow in an ecosystem refers to the movement of air and water within the environment. C) Energy flow in an ecosystem refers to the process of photosynthesis in plants. D) Energy flow in an ecosystem refers to the migration patterns of animals within the ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy flow in an ecosystem refers to the transfer of energy from one organism to another through food chains and food webs. 10. In a food web / food chain, what do you call an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms? A) Autotroph. B) Consumer. C) Decoposer. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 11. What year was the Clean Water and Air Act created? A) 1958. B) 1978. C) 1948. D) 1968. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1948. 12. What % of freshwater is on Earth? A) 71%. B) 3 %. C) 1 %. D) 97%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 %. 13. What is the term for a thin layer of gas in the upper atmosphere that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun? A) Solar layer. B) Atmosphere layer. C) Ozone layer. D) Greenhouse layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozone layer. 14. According to the webquest we did in class, a place in which scientists are not finding a diverse population of organisms is ..... A) The plains of Africa. B) The sandy areas of Australia. C) The beach in Madagascar. D) The coral reefs in the Bahamas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The coral reefs in the Bahamas. 15. The warmest temperature zone of the ocean is the A) Open ocean. B) Deep zone. C) Thermocline. D) Surface zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surface zone. 16. The entire group studied is called the A) Sample. B) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 17. The overuse of pesticides and antibiotics has led to the rise in ..... A) Artificial selection. B) Natural selection. C) Adaptation. D) Resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Resistance. 18. Consumers that eat only plants A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) Omnivores. D) Scavengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 19. Which phrase defines a scientific theory? A) An accepted description. B) An educated guess. C) An untested idea. D) A well-supported explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A well-supported explanation. 20. Which of the following in a natural resources? A) Water. B) Food. C) Sunlight. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. Per capita land consumption means the A) Amount of land a country uses as a whole. B) Amount of land each person uses. C) Type of land covered by state capitals. D) Type of land people live on. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amount of land each person uses. 22. Information gathered is A) An amazing thing. B) Data. C) Its not relevant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Data. 23. Isolines connecting points of equal temperature are called A) Contour Lines. B) Equality Lines. C) Isobars. D) Isotherms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isotherms. 24. The maximum number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support ..... A) Emigration. B) Exponential growth. C) Carrying capacity. D) Demography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity. 25. Describes the routes that carbon atoms take through the environment. Earth's oceans function extensively in this cycle. The largest human impact on the ..... cycle is through our use of fossil fuel as an energy source A) Carbon. B) Phosphorus. C) Water. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon. 26. Observation or inference? The folder is blue A) Observation. B) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observation. 27. How do biodiversity and sustainability work together? A) The higher the biodiversity, the greater the sustainability. B) The higher the biodiversity, the less sustainable the ecosystem. C) Biodiversity has nothing to do with sustainability. D) The lower the biodiversity the greater the sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The higher the biodiversity, the greater the sustainability. 28. What type of forest is the Great Smoky Mountains? A) Deciduous forest. B) Tropical Rain forest. C) Coniferous forest. D) Coastal Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deciduous forest. 29. Rene grew bacteria from the mouth on special plates in the laboratory. She placed drops of different mouthwashes on bacteria on each plate. Which step of the scientific method is this? A) Drawing a conclusion. B) Conducting an experiment. C) Forming a hypothesis. D) Stating the problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conducting an experiment. 30. What was the first United States National Park? A) Yosemite. B) Yellowstone. C) Joshua Tree. D) The Grand Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellowstone. 31. Which will occur if humans continue to overload water systems with excess nutrients? A) Photosynthesis. B) Nitrification. C) Chemosynthesis. D) Eutrophication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eutrophication. 32. A planet traveling around the Sun is called A) Solar Cycles. B) The Big Bang Theory. C) Revolution. D) Rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revolution. 33. The ecological pyramid always starts with the following at the base A) Decoposer. B) Producer. C) Consumer. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producer. 34. Cynometra cebuensis a new species of Caesalpiniaceae described by Franz Siedensharz in 2013. It is only found in ..... A) Tabunan Forest, Cebu City. B) Mt. Lanaya, Carmen, Cebu. C) Mt. Mayana, Barley, Cebu. D) Mt. Lantoy, Argao, Cebu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tabunan Forest, Cebu City. 35. The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere A) Stratosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Hurricane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 36. Which of the following can be a disadvantage of renewable resources? A) They can be intermittent (only available at certain times or in certain places). B) They release a lot of CO2 and have a large carbon footprint. C) They are renewable and will always be available. D) Renewable resources have no disadvantages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They can be intermittent (only available at certain times or in certain places). 37. Land used for houses, businesses, industry and roads A) Rangeland. B) Farmland. C) Parks and preserves. D) Urban land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Urban land. 38. A spent fuel rod is one that has lost all of its radioactivity A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 39. What is the term scientists use to describe how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment? A) Evolution. B) Speciation. C) Adaption. D) Fitness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fitness. 40. After the ..... of liquid water on Earth's surface, water vapor rises into the atmosphere. A) Precipitation. B) Evaporation. C) Condensation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaporation. 41. Oil spills, pesticides and sewage are threats to ..... A) Rivers. B) Coral reefs. C) Lakes. D) Freshwater marshes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coral reefs. 42. A human-centered worldview A) Anthropocentrism. B) Ecocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropocentrism. 43. One of the main reasons poverty exists is because land in poorer countries is used for either subsistence farming or nomadic herding. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. The temperature is currently 3$^\circ$. A) Weather. B) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weather. 45. WHICH STATE IS RECENTLY BEEN AWARED AS ORGANIC STATE OF INDIA A) HE WILL DIE. B) SIKKIM. C) ASSAM. D) MANIPUR. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SIKKIM. 46. Which among the following celestial bodies is the largest? * A) Venus. B) Mars. C) Earth. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neptune. 47. What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust? A) Volcano. B) Mountain. C) Rift. D) Island Arc. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountain. 48. Is the following statement true or false? "Genetic diversity is the genetic diversity of all individual plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms" A) Correct. B) Sai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 49. According to a random telephone survey of 200 adults, 75% of all working adults in the U.S. are satisfied with their current job. What is the population in this survey? A) 200 adults. B) Adults in the U.S. C) 75% of adults. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adults in the U.S. 50. Both P and S waves travel through solids. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. Temperature inversions can ..... air pollution A) Trap. B) Move. C) Eliminate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trap. 52. Habitat availability increases for a population. How would the carrying capacity of the prey change? A) The carrying capacity would increase as more resources become available. B) Carrying capacity occurs independent of factors in the environment. C) The carrying capacity would decrease as more resources became available. D) The carrying capacity is set in an environment and cannot change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The carrying capacity would increase as more resources become available. 53. When paper has a Forest Stewardship Council logo on it, the paper is A) Recycled. B) Not made from wood. C) Made from sustainably harvested wood. D) Made from rainforest wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Made from sustainably harvested wood. 54. Which of the following is an example of a primary pollutant? A) Carbon monoxide. B) Asbestos. C) Ozone. D) Acid rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon monoxide. 55. Which soil conservation method is used to replant crops in different areas after each season? A) Terracing. B) Contour farming. C) Intercropping. D) Crop rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crop rotation. 56. Water can not pick up harmful substances. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. How does the carbon cycle function? A) In the carbon cycle, carbon travels between and stays among organisms on Earth. B) In the carbon cycle, carbon travels from the atmosphere into organisms and the Earth. C) In the carbon cycle, carbon travels from the atmosphere into organisms and the Earth and back into the atmosphere. D) In the carbon cycle, carbon stays in the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the carbon cycle, carbon travels from the atmosphere into organisms and the Earth and back into the atmosphere. 58. Latitude lines are used to measure A) Degrees East & West. B) Degrees North & South. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Degrees North & South. 59. Which of the following is the most geologically active region on the Earth's surface? A) Glacial valleys. B) Mountain peaks. C) Boundaries between tectonic plates. D) Recharge zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boundaries between tectonic plates. 60. Which of the following is the chemical expression of ozone? A) O2. B) CO2. C) O3. D) WHAT?. 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