This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ecosystem services provided by Earth system's are said to have ..... A) Non-market values. B) Family values. C) Liberal values. D) Economic values. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-market values. 2. A mule cannot evolve because ..... A) It is infertile. B) It is a member of the Eubacteria kingdom. C) It is perfectly adapted to its habitat. D) It doesn't easily adapt to its environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is infertile. 3. The water that was around many hundreds of years ago A) Is about halfway gone. B) Is gone, and has been gone for a long time. C) Would be really dirty if it were still around. D) Is the same water we use today. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is the same water we use today. 4. Aquatic zone found near the shore A) Swamp zone. B) Benthic zone. C) Runoff zone. D) Littoral zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Littoral zone. 5. Which type of energy can be regenerated in one's lifetime by nature? A) Endemic. B) Renewable. C) Invasive. D) Nonrenewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 6. A Solar Eclipse can only happen during A) New Moon. B) Full Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Moon. 7. Which of the following is known as advocating political and social action to improve the quality of environments? A) Environmental Science. B) Liberalism. C) Conservatism. D) Environmentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Environmentalism. 8. The side of a mountain range that faces the oncoming wind and receives precipitation: A) Windward. B) Leeward. C) Climate. D) Monsoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Windward. 9. Capillaries have very ..... Blood pressure. A) Low. B) Fast. C) Slow. D) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low. 10. Which of the following is linked to the problem of global warming? A) Too much ozone. B) Too much carbon dioxide. C) Too much smog. D) Too much nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Too much carbon dioxide. 11. Products obtained from nature that humans can use such as lumber, medicines and food crops are A) Ecological benefits. B) Supplies. C) Services. D) Provisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provisions. 12. The ..... was not a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. A) Improved quality of life. B) Growth of cities. C) Overhunting of large mammals. D) Shift in the use of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overhunting of large mammals. 13. List three examples of renewable resources. A) Imaginary resources. B) Artificial resources. C) Solar energy, wind energy, and hydropower. D) Fictional resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solar energy, wind energy, and hydropower. 14. The recovery of oil and gas by injecting large amounts of fluids under high pressure into a single well as the surrounding rock is broken up is called: A) Hydraulic fracturing. B) Deep will drilling. C) Pressure drilling. D) Disruptive recovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydraulic fracturing. 15. What describes two biotic limiting factors that may affect organisms in marine biomes? A) Amount of carbon dioxide and variety of producers. B) Amount of algae and variety of consumer organisms. C) Amount of oxygen and concentration of salt in the water. D) Amount of precipitation and availability of prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amount of algae and variety of consumer organisms. 16. Which of the following is a way that you can decrease your impact on the environment? A) Plant a tree. B) Recycle. C) Pay attention to the food you eat. D) All of these. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 17. What causes air pollution? A) Cars. B) Fossil fuels. C) Wildfires. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. A close long term association between 2 or more species A) Parasitism. B) Mutualism. C) Symbiosis. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbiosis. 19. The main factor that determines what type of plants grow in a biome is A) Temperature. B) Precipitation. C) Altitude. D) Temperature and precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temperature and precipitation. 20. Coal, oil and natural gas are forms of ..... A) Fossil fuels. B) Dinosaurs. C) Things. D) Donald Trump. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fossil fuels. 21. When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Which statement explains this fact? A) The Sun gives off more heat in the summer and less heat in the winter. B) Earth is farther from the Sun in winter and closer to the Sun in summer. C) With more clouds in the winter, less sunlight can reach the surface of Earth. D) Since Earth is tilted on its axis, heat from the Sun gets distributed unequally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Since Earth is tilted on its axis, heat from the Sun gets distributed unequally. 22. Which of these types of fish is NOT good for aquaponics? A) Tilapia. B) Koi. C) Bluegill. D) Clownfish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clownfish. 23. Which of the following is not a natural cause of water pollution? A) Volcanoes. B) Animal waste. C) Oil spills. D) Silt from storms and floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oil spills. 24. What are natural resources? A) Chemical compounds. B) Radioactive materials. C) Man-made objects. D) Anything found in the environment that is useful for survival. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anything found in the environment that is useful for survival. 25. All Tetrapods have A) Scales. B) Shells. C) Two sets of limbs. D) Gills to breathe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two sets of limbs. 26. New Orleans, Louisiana and Cairo, Egypt are nearly the same distance north of the equator, this means that the 2 cities have almost the same A) Projection. B) Elevation. C) Equator. D) Latitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latitude. 27. What unit would you use to measure the height of an elephant? A) Millimeter. B) Meter. C) Decimeters. D) Kilometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 28. How long has there been life on Earth? A) 5.3 billion years. B) 35 million years. C) 3.5 billion years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3.5 billion years. 29. When a plant is eaten by a caterpillar and the caterpillar is eaten by a frog, the frog belongs to A) Producer. B) Tertiary consumer. C) Primary consumer. D) Secondary consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary consumer. 30. Lack of access to safe drinking water A) Clean Water. B) Air quality. C) Energy Resources. D) Hunger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clean Water. 31. Which of Earth's spheres includes all of the water on Earth (including fresh and salt water, as well as water in the air and underground)? A) Hydrosphere. B) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere. 32. How has global warming made it more difficult for polar bears to hunt the seals they feed on? A) The population of seals has declined. B) Polar bears are now being hunted more by other predators. C) Polar bears are forced to swim longer distances between ice sheets. D) Seals now have more places to hide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polar bears are forced to swim longer distances between ice sheets. 33. Which gas is removed from the atmosphere during photosynthesis? A) Hydrogen. B) Nitrogen. C) Oxygen. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon dioxide. 34. Which gas/gases are considered to be a greenhouse gas? A) Water vapor. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Methane. D) All are greenhouse gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are greenhouse gases. 35. Which one of the following is an environmental effect of globalization? A) Easy spread of invasive species. B) Climate change. C) Stronger enforcement of environmental laws in most countries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Easy spread of invasive species. 36. Which of the following is a way humans negatively affect other species? A) Hunting. B) Poaching. C) Framing Habitats. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 37. Which is a developing country? A) India. B) Great Britain. C) The United States. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 38. All the living communities in an area PLUS the abiotic factors. A) Population. B) Biome. C) Habitat. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 39. When a group of foxes moves to a new environment, a change in which of the following is least likely to be a selective pressure on the foxes? A) Predator populations. B) Decomposers. C) Temperatures. D) Food sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposers. 40. Which organism returns elements back into the soil? A) Plants. B) Root bacteria. C) Herbivores (rabbits). D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decomposers. 41. This part of the plant supports it and carries water. A) Leaf. B) Root. C) Stem. D) Seed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stem. 42. The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and their environment. A) Ecology. B) Biology. C) Social Science. D) Environmental Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 43. Organism that anchors itself to grasses or rocks A) Nekton. B) Coral reef. C) Barncle. D) Plankton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barncle. 44. A compound that is suspected to cause acid rain A) Carbon. B) Chloride. C) Oxygen. D) Sulfur dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sulfur dioxide. 45. Why are sea otters so crucial to an ecosystem? A) They aren't. B) They build dams and help rivers flow. C) They provide us with nutrients. D) They feed on sea urchins which are harmful to kelp forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They feed on sea urchins which are harmful to kelp forests. 46. Which of the following best describes a renewable resource? A) A natural material that takes millions of years to replenish itself (not within a lifetime). B) A natural material that is always available or replenishes itself within a short amount of time. C) A natural resource that can be burned for energy. D) A natural material that is not replaced as it is used up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A natural material that is always available or replenishes itself within a short amount of time. 47. Which organism might be at the top of the food chain in a deciduous forest? A) Eagle. B) Frog. C) Deer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eagle. 48. Temperature extremes and catastrophic natural disasters are all factors of A) Density dependent factors. B) Density independent factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density independent factors. 49. Deforestation is the greatest problem may arise on the principle of Interdependence. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 50. What is an adaptation for a desert? A) Fur. B) Large leaves. C) Nocturnal. D) Losing leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nocturnal. 51. After a supergiant, a high mass star explodes and forms a A) Red giant. B) Supernova. C) Black hole. D) Planetary nebula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supernova. 52. When one plate slides under another it is said to be ..... A) Subducting. B) Falling. C) Sinking. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subducting. 53. Which of the following is NOT a mechanism of heat energy transfer through or within Earth's atmosphere? A) Radiation. B) Convection. C) Conduction. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condensation. 54. An example of a non-governmenal agency is A) United Nations. B) Greenpeace. C) EPA. D) World Bank. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greenpeace. 55. Which of the following is not a downside of Euclidean zoning? A) Traffic congestion. B) Less job opportunities. C) Pollution of air and water. D) Segregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less job opportunities. 56. Testable idea (thought) that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question. A) Graphs. B) Analysis. C) Hypothesis. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 57. Which in the atmosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation? A) Sulfur Dioxide. B) Ozone. C) Water Vapor. D) Methane. E) Carbon Dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ozone. 58. Citizens could claim 160 acres of public land. After living on it for 5 years, they could own it for $ 16. A) EPA (Environmental Policy Act). B) Clean Water Act. C) Homestead Act. D) NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homestead Act. 59. What is a source? A) Something that is provided. B) An object. C) A place person or thing of which something comes or can be obtained. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A place person or thing of which something comes or can be obtained. 60. What takes longer to happen, primary succession or secondary succession? A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary succession. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesEnvironmental Sciences Quiz 1Environmental Sciences Quiz 2Environmental Sciences Quiz 3Environmental Sciences Quiz 4Environmental Sciences Quiz 6Environmental Sciences Quiz 7Environmental Sciences Quiz 8Environmental Sciences Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books