This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 37 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is mutualism? A) A relationship between two organisms. B) A relationship between two organisms that benefits both of them. C) A relationship between two organisms that benefits one organism but harms the other. D) A relationship between two organisms that benefits one organism but has no effect on the other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A relationship between two organisms that benefits both of them. 2. -the elevation above sea level. A) Insolation. B) Altitude. C) Latitude. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Altitude. 3. Density dependent factors A) Only rise with population density. B) Only fall with population density. C) Rise and fall with population density. D) Unaffected by population density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rise and fall with population density. 4. The majority of marine organisms are found in A) Deep ocean waters. B) Shallow, coastal waters. C) Hydrothermal vents. D) Salt marshes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shallow, coastal waters. 5. In most power plants what is the heat energy used for? A) To directly power the generator. B) Nuclear fission which then creates a chain reaction. C) The heat is transmitted through the electrical grid into homes. D) To create steam which turns turbines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To create steam which turns turbines. 6. An endangered species can be bred in captivity so that their offspring may be released back into nature. This is an example of A) Habitat fragmentation. B) Captive-breeding program. C) A climax community. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Captive-breeding program. 7. On a trophic pyramid, where would you find the tertiary consumers? A) At the top. B) Wherever they wanted to be. C) At the bottom. D) In the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the top. 8. Comes from a distinct location like a factory or leaking sewer pipe A) Nonpoint-source pollution. B) Point-source pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point-source pollution. 9. Applies the principles of Earth's systems to economics. A) Ecological fuels. B) Ecological sustainable. C) Ecological economics. D) Ecological growths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecological economics. 10. The occurrence of 'Dead Zones' in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas is mostdirectly linked to what human activity? A) Deforestation. B) Nutrient overloading from fertilizers in agricultural areas. C) Overfishing. D) Burning of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nutrient overloading from fertilizers in agricultural areas. 11. The darts on the board represent which type of data? A) Accurate. B) Precise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accurate. 12. What dangers are caused by volcanoes? A) Improved air quality. B) Increased agricultural productivity. C) Mudslides & ashclouds. D) Enhanced wildlife habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mudslides & ashclouds. 13. Which best describes the phrase survival of the fittest? A) Strongest in a population are most successful. B) Fastest in a population are most successful. C) Those that can survive and reproduce are most successful. D) Those that can live the longest are most successful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Those that can survive and reproduce are most successful. 14. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF "PETA" A) PEOPLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TRUST ASSOCIATION. B) PEOPLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TREATY ASSOCIATION. C) PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. D) POLICY FOR ENDANGERED AND THREATENED ANIMALS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. 15. Which of the following processes converts C6H12O6 to an inorganic molecule CO2 A) Photosynthesis. B) Excretion. C) Translation. D) Cellular respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cellular respiration. 16. Identifies threatened and endangered species in the US, and puts their protection ahead of economic considerations A) Resource Conservation And Recovery Act. B) Clean Water Act. C) Endangered Species Act. D) Safe Drinking Water Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endangered Species Act. 17. Which of the following is an example of qualititative data? A) The length of blue gill fish found in a lake. B) A graph showing the amount of rain in the Bengal jungle. C) A recording of the whale songs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A recording of the whale songs. 18. Oceans cover about ..... of the surface of the earth. A) 60%. B) 80%. C) 70%. D) 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 70%. 19. Extreme algae growth is an example of A) Gross Domestic Product. B) Pioneering species. C) Algaefication. D) Eutrophication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eutrophication. 20. Earth is anticipated to lose all of its arctic ice by what point in time? A) 2030. B) 2040. C) 2025. D) 2050. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2050. 21. A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. Point-source pollution and nonpoint-source pollution differ in A) The kind of biological agents causing the pollution. B) Whether the source of pollution is agricultural or industrial. C) Whether the pollutants are chemical or physical agents. D) The number of sources from which the pollution is discharged. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The number of sources from which the pollution is discharged. 23. Earth's earliest life forms were A) Decomposers. B) Multicellular organisms. C) Eukaryotes. D) Prokaryotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prokaryotes. 24. Unscramble the letters to form wordsNWEETRS HGAST A) Deccan Plateau. B) Western Ghats. C) Himalayas. D) Thar Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Western Ghats. 25. A step in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem; the level of a food chain that an organism occupies. A) Primary succession. B) Trophic level. C) Producer. D) Climax community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trophic level. 26. Which type of plate movement involves the creation of mountains and/or volcanoes? A) Divergent. B) Convergent. C) Transverse. D) Continental Breakfast Plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergent. 27. A sustainable world would be characterized by the A) Preservation of rare animals by relocation from natural habitats to laboratories. d. indefinite existence of human populations in a healthy and prosperous condition. B) Invention of safer storage facilities for increased amounts of toxic wastes. C) Maximum exploitation of natural resources using more advanced technologies. D) Indefinite existence of human populations in a healthy and prosperous condition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indefinite existence of human populations in a healthy and prosperous condition. 28. The latitudinal gradient is a natural pattern in which species diversity generally A) Increases toward the equator. B) Decreases toward the prime meridian. C) Increases toward the poles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases toward the equator. 29. What is the most common use for coal? A) Plastic production. B) Being burned for electricity. C) Paper production. D) Making concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Being burned for electricity. 30. What type of species interaction involves fighting over resources? A) Commensalism. B) Competition. C) Parasitism. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 31. In which area of the sun does gas rise as it heats up, then fall back down as it cools? A) The core. B) The convection zone. C) The radiation zone. D) The corona. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The convection zone. 32. Possible long-term effect of noise pollution A) Nausea. B) Lung cancer. C) Deafness. D) Pollution control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deafness. 33. How does the location of Los Angeles make it more susceptible to pollution? A) Its tropical location causes high temperatures, which increases air pollution. B) Its coastal location exposes it to pollution from the sea. C) Its location in a bowl formed by mountains causes air pollution to get trapped. D) Its location on a large, flat plain exposes it to the wind, which carries air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its location in a bowl formed by mountains causes air pollution to get trapped. 34. The last major layer of the atmosphere. A) Mesosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Exosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thermosphere. 35. A student designed an experiment to test how fertilizer affects the growth of a tomato plant. She applied different amounts of fertilizer to different tomato plants and made observations. All the other variables were held constant. Which data should the student use to determine the effectiveness of the fertilizer? A) The amount of sunlight each plant received. B) The amount of water in each pot. C) The color of the soil in each pot. D) The height of each plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The height of each plant. 36. The presence of water indicates A) Cars. B) Aquifers. C) Life. D) Dead things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 37. The only ways to fix atmospheric nitrogen into useable chemical compounds are what? A) Virus. B) Bacteria and lightening. C) Carbon. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bacteria and lightening. 38. Normally, as you go up (increase in altitude), the air temperature gets ..... in the troposphere A) Cooler. B) Warmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooler. 39. Yeasts, Mushrooms, and Mold are members of which Kingdom? A) Protist. B) Plantae. C) Fungi. D) The animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fungi. 40. What type of sediment is commonly found on abyssal plains? A) Limestone and shale. B) Volcanic ash. C) Sand and gravel. D) Clay and silt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clay and silt. 41. What does the blue line represent on a climatograph? A) Weather. B) Temperature. C) Precipitation. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Precipitation. 42. Why is leachate dangerous? A) It has toxic fumes. B) It can leak into our water supply. C) It can't be processed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It can leak into our water supply. 43. Tremendous and rapid human population growth can be attributed to: A) Agricultural Revolution. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Both Agricultural and Industrial Revolution. D) Neither the Agricultural or Industrial Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both Agricultural and Industrial Revolution. 44. The following activities contribute to an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere except A) Volcanic eruptions. B) Photosynthesis by plants. C) Burning Fossil Fuels and Deforestation. D) Oceanic respiration by marine organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning Fossil Fuels and Deforestation. 45. Which of the following is a finite resource? A) Solar energy. B) Wind energy. C) Trees. D) Fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil fuels. 46. Which of the following is the name of the ancient, super-continent formed 250 million years ago? A) Pangea. B) Gondwanda. C) Neverland. D) Gondor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pangea. 47. Winds are to the atmosphere as currents are to the ..... A) Biosphere. B) Troposphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydrosphere. 48. Most oil in the US is used A) In power plants. B) For transportation. C) In cooking. D) As supplements for human and animal health. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For transportation. 49. Ecosystems located near the equator, such as Tropical Rain Forests, have more ..... than ecosystems at other locations on the planet. A) Uranium. B) Air pollution. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diversity. 50. Crop product has decreased by how much percent A) 70%. B) 50%. C) 10%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20%. 51. True or False:Water vapor is a greenhouse gas? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Which one of the following abiotic factors likely determines the types of organisms found in Utah's Great Salt Lake? A) Sunlight. B) Salinity. C) Temperature. D) All of these factors are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these factors are correct. 53. Ecological footprint:land:: A) Developed nation:consumption. B) Developing nation:consumption. C) Grazing:forest products. D) Land:ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developed nation:consumption. 54. When graphing data, the independent variable goes on the ..... A) X-axis. B) Y-axis. C) Z-axis. D) Intersecting grid lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) X-axis. 55. Water which returns from the atmosphere to Earth's surface as rain or snow is called A) Transpiration. B) Precipitation. C) Condensation. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Precipitation. 56. Which of the following are renewable resources? A) Oil. B) Trees. C) Species. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trees. 57. What are heterotrophs? A) Consumers that eat others. B) Consumers that eat plants. C) Consumers that create what they eat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumers that eat others. 58. The basic units of matter, the smallest units that maintain the chemical properties of an element, are called A) Compounds. B) Lipids. C) Atoms. D) Macromolecules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atoms. 59. What is the definition of sludge? A) Solid matter produced by sewage treatment. B) Sewage treatment plant. C) Proper arrangement of drainage. D) Liquid matter produced by sewage treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solid matter produced by sewage treatment. 60. What was the agriculture revolution? A) The production of machines. B) The growth of agriculture and the impact it had on humans. C) The dying off of important plants. D) People standing up against Climate Change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The growth of agriculture and the impact it had on humans. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEnvironmental Sciences Quiz 1Environmental Sciences Quiz 2Environmental Sciences Quiz 3Environmental Sciences Quiz 4Environmental Sciences Quiz 5Environmental Sciences Quiz 6Environmental Sciences Quiz 7Environmental Sciences Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books