This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 211 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 211 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which process occurs inside the mitochondria of all eukaryotic cells, including plants and animals? A) Cellular Respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Chemosynthesis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cellular Respiration. 2. Who created Earth Day? A) Gaylord Nelson. B) Ronald Mcdonald. C) Brothers Grimm. D) Sir John A. Macdonald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaylord Nelson. 3. Which two polutants cause the greatest risks to human health? are these primary or secondary pollutants? A) Troposphere-secondary, mesosphere-primary. B) Ozone-primary, particulates-secondary. C) Ozone-secondary, particulates-primary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozone-secondary, particulates-primary. 4. Which layer of the Earth is divided into tectonic plates? A) Lithosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 5. What has to happen to rocks in order for them to transform into Metamorphic rocks? A) Heat and pressure. B) Cooling and hardening. C) Compaction and cementation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat and pressure. 6. What cause water pollution? A) People dump things in the countryside. B) Factories produce too much waste water and oil. C) Factories produce good products. D) Factories produce too much smoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factories produce too much waste water and oil. 7. Phosphorus cycles through the Earth"s ecosystems A) Very slowly. B) Only when activated by human activity. C) Quickly when humans burn large amounts of fossil fuels. D) Extremely quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very slowly. 8. Person earns the respect and cooperation of employees to accomplish the organization's work. A) Dog trainer. B) Weirdo. C) Leader. D) Dictator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leader. 9. Which type of environmental scientist is likely to study the interactions of gorillas? A) Hydrologist. B) Toxicologist. C) Environmental Veterinarian. D) Ecologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecologist. 10. Which is a major cause of permanent habitat destruction due to human impact? A) A cause is forest fires caused by lightning strikes. B) A cause is forest fires caused by accidents. C) A cause is clearing land to grow food and build businesses and homes. D) A cause is overhunting a species to extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A cause is clearing land to grow food and build businesses and homes. 11. Which of the following is a level of government which takes part in regulation and legislation? A) State. B) Provincial. C) City. D) Regional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) State. 12. A bird that eats food particles from a crocodile's teeth; thereby cleaning the crocs teeth is an example of ..... A) Predation. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutualism. 13. This is where you'll find most of a the DNA in a eukaryotic cell A) Choanocyte. B) Mitochondrion. C) Nucleolus. D) Nucleus. E) Golgi apparatus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleus. 14. What role does the ocean play in the Carbon Cycle? A) The ocean acts as a carbon pit stop, transferring carbon to organisms within the ocean. B) The ocean acts as a carbon source, producing more carbon than any other component. C) The ocean acts as a carbon magnet, attracting components that produce a lot of carbon. D) The ocean acts as a carbon sink, holding much more carbon than the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ocean acts as a carbon sink, holding much more carbon than the atmosphere. 15. Carbon monoxide, chloroform, formaldehyde, and asbestos are found in us homes A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. Earth's innermost compositional layer A) Deep zone. B) Core. C) World ocean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Core. 17. Have definite volume but not shape A) Freedom. B) Gases. C) Solids. D) Liquids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Liquids. 18. This is where water evaporates from solid objects like plants, mountains or clouds in the ground. A) Precipitation. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transpiration. 19. How do animals get nitrogen to make important biological molecules? A) Assimilate it through the soil. B) Consume other organisms. C) Fix it from nitrogen gas. D) Breathe it in through the air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consume other organisms. 20. Which of the following means to prepare land to grow crops by plowing soil? A) Cultivate. B) Nomadic. C) Domestication. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cultivate. 21. Which of the following correctly describes the stratosphere? A) It is a layer extending to a height of about 8 km. B) It is a layer important to telecommunications. C) It is an atmospheric ozone layer. D) It has high concentration of ionized particles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is an atmospheric ozone layer. 22. The difference between environmental science and environmentalism is ..... A) Environmentalism is unbiased. B) Environmental science studies how the natural world works. C) Environmental science is a social movement to protect the natural world. D) Environmentalism studies how the natural world works. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Environmental science studies how the natural world works. 23. When a resource like timber is used as fast as or slower than it regrows it is being used ..... A) Non renewable. B) Unsustainably. C) Sustainably. D) Synthetically. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainably. 24. If a resource can continue to be used in the future at the same rate that it is currently being used, it is A) Sustainable. B) Unsustainable. C) Nonrenewable. D) An example of Tragedy of the Commons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustainable. 25. "Atmos" is greek for A) Air. B) Ground. C) Water. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air. 26. Column A-1) Tiger, 2) Red Panda, 3) One horned Rhinoceros, 4) Giant Flying squirrelColumn B)-A) Periyar National Park, B) Kaziranga National Park, C) Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam, D) Singalila National Park A) 1-C, 2-A, 3-D, 4-B. B) 1-A, 2-C, 3-D, 4-B. C) 1)-A, 2-C, 3-B, 4-C. D) 1-C, 2-D, 3-B, 4-A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1-C, 2-D, 3-B, 4-A. 27. Pollution is an issue that only affects the Caribbean A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. Which of the following are the different particle sizes that determine soil texture? A) Loam, mud, sand. B) Clay, sand, loam. C) Silt, loam, clay. D) Clay, silt, sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clay, silt, sand. 29. Why did air pollution worsen in the 1900's? A) The introduction of motor vehicles. B) Major laws were passed regarding air pollution. C) The use of lead in paint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The introduction of motor vehicles. 30. When CO2 from the atmosphere diffuses into our oceans, it causes pH to lower. This has a negative impact on marine organisms. What do we call this process? A) Eutrophication. B) Acid Rain. C) Ocean Acidification. D) Biomagnification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ocean Acidification. 31. Combustion is ..... A) A substance that changes form or shape. B) Fire burns in the forest. C) Water mixes with saline. D) A substance chemically reacts with oxygen and gives off heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A substance chemically reacts with oxygen and gives off heat. 32. Which of the following is NOT true of oil? A) Oil is unsafe for the environment. B) Oil is a non-renewable source. C) Oil is refined to create cosmetics, gas, and plastics. D) Oil is a renewable source. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oil is a renewable source. 33. Which is TRUE of nuclear energy? A) Nuclear power produces carbon dioxide. B) Nuclear power produces radioactive waste that must be carefully disposed of. C) Nuclear meltdowns can be easily cleaned up. D) Nuclear power is a renewable energy source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuclear power produces radioactive waste that must be carefully disposed of. 34. You should feed wildlife? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 35. If you are counting the number of deer in a 10 acre area of hunting land in Washara county, you are measuring the A) Distribution. B) Growth. C) Density. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Density. 36. What percentage of the atmosphere is composed of oxygen? A) 12 percent. B) 21 percent. C) 58 percent. D) 78 percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 21 percent. 37. One example of overexploitation that threatens certain wild species is the ..... A) Use of protected lands for harmful human activities. B) Introduction of nonnative species. C) Use of zoo animals in captive breeding programs. D) Use of too many synthetic pesticides. E) Illegal trade of wild species as pets. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Illegal trade of wild species as pets. 38. The things that make the water dirty are the and the dirty water is the water . A) Clean, dirty. B) Pollutants, pollution. C) Green, yellow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollutants, pollution. 39. Which organisms play the largest role in converting nitrogen into various usable forms and back to a gas form? A) Worms. B) Plants. C) Bacteria. D) Rabbits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacteria. 40. Sunlight, wind, flowing water are examples of: A) Nutrient cycling. B) Inexhaustible resources. C) Renewable resource. D) Nonrenewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inexhaustible resources. 41. Which one of the following is NOT a major threat faced by biodiversity A) Population growth. B) Invasion of privacy. C) Overfishing. D) Habitat Loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invasion of privacy. 42. Which was an early ecologist who suggested protecting rare species? A) Frank Egler. B) Marjory Stoneman Douglas. C) Rachel Carson. D) Robert Shelford. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Shelford. 43. Over a given unit of time, the rate at which plants and algae convert solar or chemical energy into energy stored in the bonds of organic sugars is called A) Estivation. B) Salinity. C) Gross primary production. D) Natural selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gross primary production. 44. True or False:Environmentalism is the study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 45. What form of alternative energy uses a dam? A) Hydroelectric power. B) Geothermal power. C) Solar power. D) Biomass power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydroelectric power. 46. Ash and gases from volcanic eruptions can reduce the amount of ..... that can reach earth A) Water. B) Heat. C) Sunlight. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sunlight. 47. Creating paper and plastic products that become trash is using up natural resources faster than A) All of the above. B) They are thrown away. C) They are used. D) The earth can replace them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The earth can replace them. 48. Factories dumping water pollution into the ocean is what kind of pollution? A) Nonpoint pollution. B) Point Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point Pollution. 49. The transfer of energy in the form of heat from a warmer object to a colder object when placed in direct contact A) Convection. B) Conduction. C) Radiation. D) Lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conduction. 50. Interrelated changes among the biotic and abioticfactors in an ecosystem over time A) Commensalism. B) Succession. C) Deforestation. D) Ecosystem Dynamics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem Dynamics. 51. Which list of biotic and abiotic components best describes a rainforest? A) Mango trees, frogs, soil, rocks, water, toucans. B) Cactus, sand, extremely low rainfall, lizard, scorpion. C) Turtles, grass, lions, water currents, sunlight. D) Land covered with snow, freezing temperature, polar bears, lichens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mango trees, frogs, soil, rocks, water, toucans. 52. Hydro-electric Power A) Renewable. B) Non-renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable. 53. As carbon dioxide levels increase, temperature..... A) Decreases. B) Increases. C) Stagnates. D) Stays the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increases. 54. A managed forest containing only one or two species of trees that are all of the same age A) Prescribed burn. B) Tree plantation. C) Deforestation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tree plantation. 55. ''Variety of species or richness in the number of species in an ecosystem throughout the entire biosphere." This statement refers to which type of diversity? A) Interaction diversity. B) Genetic diversity. C) Ecosystem diversity. D) Species diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Species diversity. 56. Which biome is known for having the highest level of biodiversity? A) Tropical Rainforests. B) Deserts. C) Grasslands. D) Deciduous Forests tagsEN.LS2.2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tropical Rainforests. 57. Which statement about sustainable cities is true? A) They can help improve the standard of living for residents. B) No major cities have made significant progress toward sustainability yet. C) They are only successful in the developed world. D) They often help encourage sprawl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They can help improve the standard of living for residents. 58. Which of the following in NOT involved in testing ideas? A) Conducting experiment. B) Making observations. C) Making predictions. D) Making policy decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Making policy decisions. 59. Your neighbor believes that the height of a person determines how much food they eat. He measured how many ounces of food people ate who were 4 feet tall, 5 feet tall, and six feet tall? What is the independent variable? A) Height. B) Ounces of food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Height. 60. The probability of an unwanted outcome A) Value. B) Data. C) Experiment. D) Statistics. E) Risk. 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