Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Environmental Sciences Quiz 158 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Which of the following characteristics is common to coal and petroleum
2. Which type of succession starts with bare rock followed by lichen?
3. Carnivorous birds that fed on organisms exposed to this chemical produced fragile eggs. The chemical is ..... and the process is called .....
4. ..... is replaceable or regenerated over time
5. Environments include factors that are both living and nonliving. Another term for nonliving is
6. The impact your life has on the environment
7. Conduct based on or authorized by law, which is established by society to main order and protect people and properties from harm is
8. The byproduct of resource consumption contributing to ecological footprint.
9. Which of the following is the reason why the environment is interrelated?
10. The ..... curve price reflects the strength of demand for and availability of the commodity.
11. What is the definition of Renewable Resource?
12. Which of the following does not make up part of Earth's surface water?
13. According to the graph at right, atmospheric CO2 has been ....., and as a result the ..... has occurred.
14. A crocodile is covered with scales.
15. (a) is the formal set of plans and principles for addressing problems and guiding decision-making.
16. Which of the following is not a form of fixed nitrogen?
17. Which zone of the ocean is the warm, top layer that is heated by sunlight?
18. This layer contains most of Earth's mass. (NOTE:This does not mean it is the most dense!)
19. A strip of vegetated open space that connects parks or neighborhoods is called a(n)
20. Which among the following is not an ex situ site of preservation of Biodiversity?
21. Living organisms and dead organisms is a(n)
22. What is the term used for the largest population that an environment can support at any given time?
23. In ....., plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make glucose and oxygen
24. Carbon-neutrality approaches refer to:
25. What effects does global warming have on the hydrologic (water) cycle?
26. An ecological footprint does NOT measure which of the following?
27. Of Earth's water, 97% is saltwater in the oceans and 3% is freshwater. Of that 3% .....
28. Which of the following practices would help achieve source reduction?
29. Makes use of science, ethics, economics, and political process to solve environmental problems.
30. A habitat is a place or location within the ecosystem where an organism lives
31. Deposition is the process as
32. The San Andreas Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type ofboundary is it?
33. The scientific method is a technique for testing ideas with observations and involves several assumptions and a series of interrelated steps.
34. In experimental design, which variable is labeled on the x-axis?
35. Organisms can adapt.....
36. ..... is the development that meets human need without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
37. Which of the following is a way people can reduce the emissions that contribute to smog and the greenhouse effect?
38. What is an effect surface mining has on streams?
39. This type of biome is located in the northern most part of the hemisphere
40. Angiosperms called roses come in a variety of shapes and colors as a result of .....
41. A species that colonizes an uninhabited area and begins the process of ecological succession is called
42. What category of ecosystem services includes climate regulation and water purification?
43. All of the following make up the 3 major categories of environmental problems
44. Fossil fuels are included in:
45. The national process of the atmosphere heating through the trapping of re-radiated IR radiation is known as
46. Cellular Respiration involves the chemical breakdown of ..... to form ATP Energy
47. What is the term for a type of pollution that affects the light we see and can interfere with our natural rhythms and wildlife behavior?
48. An organism that eats only meat is classified as a .....
49. Geothermal energy
50. The waste given off by cellular respiration is?
51. The movement of plates towards each other is called
52. In a Centrally-Planned economy, both the government and individuals play a role in the direction the economy takes.
53. Electric cars have zero emissions IF
54. What percentage of the Earth's freshwater is usable by humans?
55. A situation in which a market left on its own fails to allocate/distribute resources efficiently
56. This described the likeliness of a common area being exploited for short-term gain.
57. Which choice describes an advantage of hydroelectric energy?
58. Eyes that can see in the dark is a(an) ..... inherited by nocturnal animals.
59. Which of the following is a part of the bio geochemical cycle?1. Soil2. Plants3. Atmosphere4. Ocean
60. Once a star uses up all of its ....., the star will begin to go into its death phase.
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books