This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 213 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 213 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which choice describes a concern with wind energy? A) Turbines are cheaply made. B) May harm bird and bat populations. C) Negative impact on river ecosystems. D) Could interfere with pollen distribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May harm bird and bat populations. 2. A graph that shows the relationship of a part to a whole. A) Line Graph. B) Bar Graph. C) Histogram. D) Circle Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circle Graph. 3. Which of the following is an example of using a nonrenewable resource? A) A hydroelectric dam creating electricity. B) Using wood to build a fire. C) A solar panel recharging a calculator. D) Burning coal in a power plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning coal in a power plant. 4. An oak forest is a(n) A) Biosphere. B) Ecosystem. C) Community. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystem. 5. Which Solid Waste Management method is preferred? A) Disposal. B) Reuse. C) Recycle. D) Reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reduction. 6. This 14-year-old found and brought attention to the problem of sewage pipes dumping into her local river. Her efforts garnered national attention and prompted the government to announce a $ 15.7 million in funding to clean up the waterway. A) Stella Voolis. B) Ramona Kaswan. C) Autumn Peltier. D) Georgie Badiel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stella Voolis. 7. Which of the following shows the correct order of life organization from smallest to largest? A) Species, Population, Organism Ecosystem, Community, Biome, Biosphere. B) Biosphere, Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population, Species, Organism. C) Organism, Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere. D) Community, Population, Species, Biome, Organism, Biosphere, Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism, Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere. 8. Define biodiversity A) The variety of life in a particular ecosystem. B) The variety of abiotic and biotic factors in a particular ecosystem. C) The variety of characteristics within a family. D) The measure of species diversity and nothing else. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The variety of life in a particular ecosystem. 9. Irrigation projects have made it possible to practice agriculture in formerly arid areas. What might be the impact of this on the native plant population? A) They would out compete the crops and destroy them. B) They would not be affected as they do not need water. C) Their growth could be hampered by the new conditions. D) They would grow better due to the availability of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their growth could be hampered by the new conditions. 10. Rainfall is MOST SIMILAR in which pair of biomes? A) Tundra, desert. B) Taiga, tundra. C) Rainforest, savanna. D) Temperate forest, grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tundra, desert. 11. Given the following sentence, which axis would you put the "fertilizer" variable? "A student wanted to determine how tall corn would grow if different types of fertilizer were used." A) Control Axis. B) X Axis. C) Y Axis. D) Z Axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) X Axis. 12. How much percent domestic water in Israel A) 90%. B) 40%. C) 60%. D) 10%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 40%. 13. Which of the following is an ADVANTAGE of using fossil fuels? A) Easy to transport. B) Climate change. C) Consistent energy production. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consistent energy production. 14. The dung beetle's role in processing feces is a(an) A) Natural capital. B) Natural resource. C) Ecosystem service. D) Environmental science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecosystem service. 15. Unicellular, prokaryotic, autotroph A) Bacteria. B) Animal. C) Protist. D) Plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bacteria. 16. Which of the following is NOT an influence which energy sources people use and how they use them. A) Availability. B) Consumption. C) Governmental Regulations. D) Price. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumption. 17. She looked ..... A) Worries. B) Worry. C) Worrying. D) Worried. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Worried. 18. Which of these is an example of a human activity that causes climate change? A) Burning fossil fuels. B) Using alternative energy sources. C) Removing greenhouse gases. D) Increasing ash particles from volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burning fossil fuels. 19. An organims that only eats plants A) Herbivore. B) Omnivore. C) Detritivore. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 20. If the Great Ocean Conveyor belt was disrupted which of these continental areas would be impacted the most? A) Australia. B) South Africa. C) Europe. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Europe. 21. 3 R stands for ....., ..... and ..... A) Reduce, reading, reuse. B) Reduce, recycle, resources. C) Recycle, rithmetic, reuse. D) Recycle, reuse, reduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recycle, reuse, reduce. 22. To arrange something into groups according to similarities A) Family. B) Classify. C) Organize. D) Kingdon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classify. 23. How is biomass used in developing countries? A) Generate electricity. B) Heating and cooking. C) For hydropower. D) Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heating and cooking. 24. Large-scale agriculture A) Weathering. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Horizon agriculture. D) Industrialized agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrialized agriculture. 25. United States imports from China are represented by which of the following percentages? A. 22 percent B. 80 percent C. 50 percent D. 25 percent A) 50 percent. B) 80 percent. C) 22 percent. D) 25 percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 22 percent. 26. Clean Water Act 1972 A) Established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. B) U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. C) Legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of a government agency or public authority. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. 27. A mineral important for teeth, muscles, and bone growth A) Nitrogen. B) Calcium. C) Magnesium. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium. 28. Which of the following resources is of mixed type on the basis of its chemical nature A) Water. B) Soil. C) Fossil fuels. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil. 29. What causes the change in populations because of human intervention and selective breeding? A) Emigration. B) Artificial selection. C) Survival of the fittest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial selection. 30. Vietnam is considered to be the country with the highest biodiversity in the world? A) 10. B) 12. C) 13. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16. 31. Examples of biodegradable pollutants A) Mercury, lead, some types of plastics. B) Human sewage and food waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human sewage and food waste. 32. What does renewable mean? A) Cannot be replaced once used. B) Fossil fuels. C) Made new again every day. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Made new again every day. 33. What is one negative consequence oversfishing can lead to? A) Fish can grow two heads. B) Fish species can adapt in order to escape fishermen. C) Fish species can either become depleted or very underpopulated in that given area. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish species can either become depleted or very underpopulated in that given area. 34. All of the following are characteristics of mammals except ..... A) They are covered with hair. B) They give birth to live young. C) They breathe through gills. D) They produce milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They breathe through gills. 35. A Lunar Eclipse can only happen during A) Full Moon. B) New Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full Moon. 36. Which is an example of a living natural resource? A) Stone. B) Gold. C) Iron. D) Cucumbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cucumbers. 37. Which would be a way to reduce pollution? A) Increase the nitrogen and phosphorous used in fertilizers. B) Penalize organic farming. C) Remove cover crops. D) Plant buffer zones of vegetation between fields and nearby waterways. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plant buffer zones of vegetation between fields and nearby waterways. 38. A negative of GMOs is that A) They are creating herbicide tolerant crops. B) There is higher crop production. C) They require fewer materials to grow crops. D) There is insufficient research to know the long term impacts they may have. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There is insufficient research to know the long term impacts they may have. 39. A ..... is an examination of a finished product, like an experiment and results, by individuals of the same level of education or specialization A) Analytical conclusion. B) Peer review. C) Deductive reasoning. D) Scientific method. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peer review. 40. Which of the following federal laws specifically deals with the cleanup of abandoned hazardous waste sites A) CERCLA/Superfund. B) Clean Air Act. C) RCRA. D) Clean Water Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CERCLA/Superfund. 41. What is the term for the mixture of chemicals appearing as a gray-brown haze in cities results from automobile exhaust? A) Fumes. B) Fog. C) Smog. D) Smoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smog. 42. Developing countries have lower average income than developed countries. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 43. Get ready for a wild adventure into the world of animals! 🐍🦇🦉🦅Which of these incredible adaptations is a structural one? A) An owl sleeping during the day. B) Bats hibernating in winter. C) A snake's ability to produce poison. D) An eagle's strong vision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An eagle's strong vision. 44. What does field capacity indicate? A) Number of microorganisms thriving in soil. B) Amount of moisture or water content held in soil after drainage. C) Number of aggregates the make up a soil sample. D) Amount of minerals present in soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amount of moisture or water content held in soil after drainage. 45. Located in the temperate zone A) Coniferous. B) Deciduous. C) Rain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deciduous. 46. Which of the following is best categorized as a natural service? A) Renewable energy. B) Oil. C) Nonrenewable energy. D) Water purification by rocks in streams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water purification by rocks in streams. 47. This young entrepreneur started a company that addresses the connection between woment's health and hygiene, academic opportunity, and water supplies while providing economic options to women in her home country of South Africa A) Ramona Kaswan. B) Let's Copeny. C) Stella Voolis. D) Autumn Peltier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramona Kaswan. 48. During which step of primary succession are insects, small birds, and mammals able to inhabit the area? A) Sixth. B) Third. C) Fifth. D) First. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sixth. 49. Which statement is MOST LIKELY to be true of a developing country? A) Most adults earn enough money to own cars. B) Most adults consume more than 3, 000 calories a day. C) Most adults live in rural areas and work in agriculture. D) Most adults live in cities and work in factories or offices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most adults live in rural areas and work in agriculture. 50. Which of these is a good method for reducing your ecological footprint? A) Save energy, food, water, shelter, and produce less waste such green house gases and sewage. B) Drive less, fly less, turn off lights. C) Compost and live in a smaller house. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 51. Biotic environment includes: A) Producers. B) Decomposers. C) Consumers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 52. Which of the following has the greatest efficiency out of all of the natural resources? A) Hydroelectric. B) Fossil fuels. C) Solar. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydroelectric. 53. Who first coined the term ecosystem? A) Arthur G. Tansley. B) Aristotle. C) Sunderlal Bahuguna. D) Arjun G. Tandle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthur G. Tansley. 54. What is the earliest stage of coal? (this has the least amount of energy and is the youngest) A) Bituminous. B) Peat. C) Lignite. D) Anthracite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peat. 55. The variety of organisms in a given area is called: A) A species. B) A gene. C) Biodiversity. D) Abiotic factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity. 56. How can someone reduce the size of their ecological footprint? A) Eat less meat. B) Drive less. C) Use public transportation. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 57. Which is the following causes the difference in weather that we see during the different seasons. A) The rotation of the Earth. B) The angle at which the sun's rays hit the Earth. C) Distance from the moon. D) The distance from the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The angle at which the sun's rays hit the Earth. 58. ..... is needed for burning and breathing. A) Air. B) Water. C) Wind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air. 59. What global phenomenon has caused some organisms to move toward the poles or to higher altitudes? A) Habitat fragmentation. B) Pollution. C) Warming temperatures. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Warming temperatures. 60. Which of the following forest management practices is the harvesting of trees before they reach maturity? A) Silviculture. B) Propagation. C) Intermediate cuttings. D) Timber stand improvements. 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