This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 56 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 56 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Most of the 90% of the energy that doesn't move on from trophic level to trophic level ..... A) Is exerted in arguments with a mate. B) Is absorbed into the soil. C) Is used to make pretty babies. D) Is used to maintain the metabolism of that particular organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is used to maintain the metabolism of that particular organism. 2. Which type of mining is associated with disturbing more land? A) Placer mining. B) Subsurface mining. C) Surface mining. D) Ocean mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surface mining. 3. Strong wind has a very high speed. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Between 1988 and 1995, the North America cod (fish) population collapsed due of overharvesting. What might the government have done to help the population begin to grow in 1996? A) Set limits on cod fishing. B) Allow unlimited fishing of cod. C) Increased cod fishing in some areas. D) Ordered people to stop eating cod. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Set limits on cod fishing. 5. What is the definition of climate? A) The rain forest. B) The pattern of weather over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pattern of weather over time. 6. What is a body of water that combines freshwater from rivers and lakes with saltwater from the ocean? A) Estuary. B) Floodplain. C) Wetland. D) Tributary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estuary. 7. What word means the solid particles that have settled out during the sedimentation process of water treatment. A) Settlement. B) Solubility. C) Solidifying. D) Sediment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sediment. 8. All living things on earth are part of the ..... A) Cryosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Geosphere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 9. Erosion, nutrient loss, and biodiversity loss are all disadvantages of? A) Irrigation. B) Reforestation. C) Crop rotation. D) Slash and burn farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slash and burn farming. 10. Which of the following is NOT a way that carbon is transferred from animals to decomposers. A) When they die. B) When they release bodily waste. C) As carbon dioxide when they breathe. D) In scraps of food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As carbon dioxide when they breathe. 11. Which two gases make up the majority of Earth's atmosphere? A) Carbon dioxide and argon. B) Helium and nitrogen. C) Neon and helium. D) Nitrogen and oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen and oxygen. 12. A class of human-made chemicals that may damage the ozone layer A) Phytoplankton. B) Ozone layer. C) Polar vortex. D) Cfc's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cfc's. 13. A neutralization reaction will (almost) always produce ..... A) Water & salt. B) Water. C) Salt. D) Water & carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water & salt. 14. Sea surface temperatures have been A) Increasing. B) Decreasing. C) Staying the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increasing. 15. The Earth orbits the sun in a(n) ..... pattern. A) Icosahedral. B) Elliptical. C) Figure 8. D) Linear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elliptical. 16. In a dead zone, ..... levels are really low such that living organisms are not able survive. A) Oxygen. B) Nitrogen. C) Fertilizer. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 17. Cleaning of water is process of removing ..... A) Pollutants. B) Sludge. C) Chemicals, kitchen waste. D) Sewage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pollutants. 18. The protection of natural resources A) Social/cultural value. B) Environmental value. C) Recreational value. D) Educational value. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Environmental value. 19. There are high mountains in a ..... environment. A) Coastal. B) Urban. C) Mountainous. D) Polar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountainous. 20. What is the process by which rocks and soil are broken down by wind, water, or ice? A) Volcanism. B) Weathering. C) Erosion. D) Sedimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 21. When nitrogen gas is turned into a form (nitrates) that plants and animals can use is called A) Nitrogen Fixation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Decomposition. D) Combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen Fixation. 22. What is needed to maintain a sustainable food chain? A) More consumers than producers. B) An equal amount of producers and consumers. C) A lot more producers at the bottom and few top predators at the top. D) Don't pick this one obviously. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A lot more producers at the bottom and few top predators at the top. 23. The study of the environment that includes physical, biological, and social sciences? A) Physiology. B) Anatomy. C) Environmental Science. D) Geometry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environmental Science. 24. Temperature ..... as you go deeper into the earth. A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Goes up and down depending on the layer. D) Stays the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases. 25. Radon is produced by the decay of what? A) Krypton. B) Hydrogen. C) Uranium. D) Lithium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uranium. 26. Find a word for the following definition:"the quality of causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time" A) Disposal. B) Sustainability. C) Pollution. D) Waste sorting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sustainability. 27. A fungus differs from a plant because ..... A) Fungi cells do not contain chlorophyll but plant cells do. B) Fungi cells do not have cell wall but plant cells do. C) Fungi are autotrophic while plants are heterotrophic in its mode of nutrition. D) Fungi cells do not have membrane-bound organelles but plant cells do. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fungi cells do not contain chlorophyll but plant cells do. 28. Smog is an example of A) Secondary pollutant. B) Primary pollutant. C) Thermal inversion. D) Smoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary pollutant. 29. The fundamental unit of matter A) Quarks. B) Solution. C) Cell. D) Atom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atom. 30. What is the main goal of the UN sustainable development goals? A) Promote economic growth in all countries. B) Keep corporations in check and to make sure they distribute their profits in an equitable way. C) Achieve sustainable way of living for all people that will improve the quality of life for everyone. D) Protect all of the environment and to stop the Earth from getting too warm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Achieve sustainable way of living for all people that will improve the quality of life for everyone. 31. The Earth's early atmosphere probably contained very little A) Ammonia. B) Oxygen. C) Methane. D) Hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 32. The field of economics that links environmental and economic costs A) Non-Market Values. B) Ecolabelling. C) Ecological Economics. D) Environmental Economics. E) Market Failure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Environmental Economics. 33. Carbon dioxide has a natural seasonal cycle but is steadily increasing over time is the idea of which scientist? A) Keeling. B) Einstein. C) Darwin. D) Peeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keeling. 34. Willingness to change with new evidence A) Science. B) Pseudoscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science. 35. Which of the following are examples that environmental engineers would be concerned with? A) Recycling. B) Waste Disposal. C) Water Quality. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 36. You must wear safety googles when a teacher tells you to during a lab. A) False, I do not agree. B) True, I agree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True, I agree. 37. Which biome has the least amount of biodiversity? (the least different kinds of organisms) A) Tropical rain forest. B) Savanna. C) Grassland. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desert. 38. Ticks feed on deer blood with harms the deer. A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 39. Which is a natural source of greenhouse gases? A) Volcanic eruptions. B) Deforestation. C) Aerosols. D) Burning fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcanic eruptions. 40. Chemical weathering ..... A) Is when rock is broken into smaller pieces, and the material that makes up the rock or soil also changes. B) Is when only the size of the rocks is changed. C) Is when nothing changes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is when rock is broken into smaller pieces, and the material that makes up the rock or soil also changes. 41. In arctic regions, the permanently frozen layer of soil or sub soil is called. A) Subsoil. B) Tundra. C) Permafrost. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Permafrost. 42. Which word describes the breaking down of rock by physical, chemical or biologic activity? A) Erosion. B) Weathering. C) Deposition. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 43. These two forces work together to transform rocks deep inside Earth's crust. A) Heat and pressure. B) Heat and gravity. C) Pressure and wind. D) Rain and wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat and pressure. 44. Over 40% of endangered species in the United States are at risk due to impacts from ..... A) Climate change. B) Invasive species. C) Pollution. D) Habitat fragmentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invasive species. 45. An individual just came to your school yard to measure the diameter of all the trees. This individual is likely studying ..... A) Environmental science. B) Environmental activism. C) Ecology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecology. 46. A true statement about aquifers is that A) Their water levels remain stable because they recharge so rapidly. B) They are hard to purify because the water collects in sand and rocks. C) They are formed by underground rivers and leakage from deep lakes. D) Their water does not circulate in the water cycle because it cannot evaporate under the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are hard to purify because the water collects in sand and rocks. 47. Nuclear ..... reactor are nuclear fission reactors that form new nuclear fuel as they operate to produce electricity. A) Gas cooled. B) Boiling water. C) Breeder. D) Heavy water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Breeder. 48. Be able to write your answer on your test!How is climate different than weather? A) Weather is a condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place. Climate is the long term average weather conditions of a region. B) Weather is a process of cold and hot and climate is rain and snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weather is a condition of the atmosphere at a specific time and place. Climate is the long term average weather conditions of a region. 49. Primary consumers eat ..... A) Quaternary consumers. B) Producers. C) Tertiary consumers. D) Secondary consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Producers. 50. Which of the following is the best reason to protect a section of an oak forest? A) To prevent oak trees from reproducing too quickly. B) To cause the extinction of undesirable animal species. C) To provide more land for agricultural purposes. D) To maintain the diversity of the living environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To maintain the diversity of the living environment. 51. What does a topographic map show? A) Earth's magnetic fields. B) Tectonic plate boundaries. C) 3D features of land. D) Stuff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3D features of land. 52. An example of BIOsphere connecting to ATMOsphere A) Animals live in caves. B) Animals eat plants. C) Animals drink water. D) Plants produce oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plants produce oxygen. 53. What types of energy resources are included? A) Petroleum, solar radiation, geothermal, tides. B) Coal, solar radiation, wind, precious stones. C) Nuclear energy, metal ore, wind. D) Biomass energy, quartz, energy from the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petroleum, solar radiation, geothermal, tides. 54. The study of how humans interact with our environment is called A) Biology. B) Environmentalism. C) Environmental science. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environmental science. 55. Area of the Earth's surface where water percolates down into the aquifer A) Dam. B) Recharge Zone. C) Porosity. D) Aquifer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recharge Zone. 56. Area of ocean needed to sustain the fish consumption of an average person, nation, or the world, based on the weight of fish they consume annually A) Deforestation. B) Fishprint. C) Wilderness Area. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fishprint. 57. A type of lichen grows under water on rocks in the ocean. Which of these factors in the lichen's environment is abiotic? A) A fish feeding on algae. B) The water current around the rock. C) Tiny organisms that live on the ocean floor. D) The algae found on the same rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The water current around the rock. 58. ..... is something scientist record, also known as information. A) Hypotheses. B) Theory. C) Data. D) Observations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. 59. Study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment A) Ecology. B) Sustainability. C) Agriculture. D) Environmental science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Environmental science. 60. Process that test a hypothesis by collecting information under controlled conditions. A) Observation. B) Experiment. C) Justify. D) Examine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experiment. ← 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