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Environmental Sciences Quiz 191 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following contains a lot of carbon?
2. Which layer do space shuttles travel in?
3. What is the difference between pollution from natural sources and pollution from human activities?
4. The portion of the Earth's atmosphere furthest from us is known as the .....
5. A landform that connects two main landmasses.
6. A calculation that shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country
7. An undesirable impact on the environment that can be naturally caused but is usually driven by human activities.
8. In what layer of the atmosphere does all weather and life exist?
9. Nuclear power, Hydro-power and Biomass are known as ..... energy alternatives.
10. An subatomic part of an atom is negative?
11. Cohesive force between water molecules and adhesive force between water molecules and other molecules enable this phenomenon ..... occur.
12. How could a long-term decrease in precipitation impact an area?
13. What causes cultural eutrophication in fresh water?
14. It states that anything not providing benefit to human has no value
15. What type of transport is taking place if energy is being used?
16. Facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
17. Fossil fuel consumption results in the emission of greenhouse gases
18. Example(s) of pervious surfaces? Select all that apply.
19. Main Producers in ocean are?
20. At the start of the pandemic, everyone bought more toilet paper than they needed. As a result, the country ran out of toilet paper. This is an example of:
21. 2) Which of the following is a blood agent?
22. How many people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water?
23. The movement of the tectonic plates of the lithosphere as the rock in the asthenosphere is moved by the convection currents.
24. Energy leaves and enters, but matter does not
25. Leaving the soil undisturbed as a new crop is planted
26. Structures and processes that humans can use for their own purposes but cannot create.
27. Which of these daily human activities would have a beneficial impact on the environment?
28. When the media uses certain words to make people feel a certain way about the report it is called bias by
29. Scientists pursue ..... when they are trying to answer scientific questions using the scientific method if enough is known about a subject
30. Which two particles make up the nucleus of an atom?
31. Largest and slowest of the Earths cycles, consisting of geologic, physical, and chemical processes that form and modify rocks and soil in the earth's crust over millions of years
32. Main source of raw materials for the lumber industry
33. The main factors that determines which type of plants will grow are:
34. What is a positive effect of upwellings
35. Which human activity consumes by far the most water resources on a global basis?
36. Science is always .....
37. Human activities have an effect on the concentration of all of the following atmospheric gases EXCEPT .....
38. Land where it is possible to grow crops is called
39. Which of the following is true regarding extinction of species?
40. Designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out substances responsible (a)
41. Which of the following is NOT one of the three E's that lead to sustainability?
42. What is the 3R principle in solid waste pollution management?
43. What kind of weather happens after a cold front moves out?
44. Sometimes, a company that generates pollution will pay extra taxes, based on the amount of pollution it produces. These are known as
45. Most of the nutrients in the rain forest ecosystem are in the
46. The wave of environmental concern swept our country since the Bhopal gas tragedy of .....
47. Who uses soil auger/soil tube to take soil samples and do technical field work?
48. What is a chemical substance with a given set of properties that cannot be broken down into substances with other properties?
49. What is sustainability?
50. Are rocks biotic or abiotic factors?
51. Which of the follow belong to Physics?
52. Which energy source is formed from dead organic matter that is trapped between rocks that does not contain more volatile hydrocarbons?
53. A mosquito with a mass of 2.5 grams dies and is decomposed. How much of its matter is either used by the decomposer or returned to the Earth?
54. What does the word biodiversity mean?
55. The stable, final stage of succession is called .....
56. We can ..... natural resources by not using them up or damaging them.
57. The thinnest layer of the Earth is the .....
58. Every location on Earth gets 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness during
59. An igneous rock forms as ..... cools below the surface of the Earth.
60. One way that planners enforce their decisions is ....., the practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use.
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