This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 71 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Carbon monoxide can replace oxygen in the blood. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. Complete the following statement by selecting the correct answer:Non-renewable energy comes from natural resources that are not naturally replenished, such as ..... and coal. A) Uranium. B) Oil. C) Water. D) Sunlight. E) Electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oil. 3. These animals might be in trouble if their habitat changes A) Specialists. B) Extinct. C) Generalists. D) Endangered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Specialists. 4. Which of the following is NOT responsible for increasing human populations? A) Improved living conditions. B) Advances in medicines. C) Increased food supply. D) Declining animal populations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Declining animal populations. 5. What are three of the main environmental problems today? A) Water loss, deforestation, mineral depletion. B) Pollution, loss of biodiversity, resource depletion. C) Over population, fires, land loss. D) Hurricanes, flooding, fires. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution, loss of biodiversity, resource depletion. 6. ..... is the portion of renewable resources that can be used sustainably. A) Ecological deficit. B) Natural income. C) Ecological negativity. D) Carbon footprint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural income. 7. Organisms in the soil are needed to help plants use A) Carbon dioxide. B) Carbon. C) Nitrogen. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen. 8. An ecological foot print is? A) A measurement of how human population demand on nature. B) A measurement of total greenhouse gas emission ing units of carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A measurement of how human population demand on nature. 9. Earth is surrounded by a mixture of gases called the A) Geosphere. B) Atmosphere. C) Sponge bobasphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atmosphere. 10. A(n) ..... species is one that moves into an ecosystem as a result of human intervention. A) Endemic. B) Endangered. C) Invasive. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invasive. 11. Which title best summarises the main idea of the passage? A) Global warming effects. B) Threats to Amazon rainforest. C) Chances for owners of cow ranches. D) Habitat destruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Threats to Amazon rainforest. 12. Resources that cannot be replaced quickly A) Nonrenewable resource. B) Wind. C) Sunlight. D) Renewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonrenewable resource. 13. Organisms that live in this zone must be adapted to constant changes that occur as daily tides and waves alternately submerge and expose the shore. A) Benthic Zone. B) Intertidal Zone. C) Abyssal Zone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intertidal Zone. 14. The study of how humans interact with the environment A) Ethics. B) Ecology. C) Environmental Science. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environmental Science. 15. What is labeled D? A) Condensation. B) Precipitation. C) Infiltration. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infiltration. 16. Tornadoes are most likely to form from which condition? A) Thunderstorms at the leading edge of a cold front. B) Thunderstorms at the leading edge of a stationary front. C) Thunderstorms at the leading edge of a warm front. D) Thunderstorms at the leading edge of an occluded front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thunderstorms at the leading edge of a cold front. 17. Ozone acts as a ..... A) Shield from UV radiation for living creatures on Earth. B) Pollutant in the thermosphere. C) Carcinogen in the stratosphere. D) Pollutant in the stratosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shield from UV radiation for living creatures on Earth. 18. An example of a ..... feedback can be how your brain regulates temperature. If you are too cold, you start shivering and put on more clothes, then you warm up. If you are too hot, then you start sweating and cools your off. A) Positive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 19. Oil and natural gas result A) Migration of carbohydrate molecules nonporous rock formation. B) Decay of plants that lived in swamps millions of years ago. C) The burning of high-sulfur, low graded uranium. D) decay of plants that lived in swamps millions of years ago. D) Decay of marine organism gather to floor million of year ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decay of marine organism gather to floor million of year ago. 20. Eutrophication is caused by what? A) Increase in CO2 in the atmosphere. B) Increase of nitrogen and phosphorous in lakes and estuaries. C) Driving our cars and using too many electronics. D) Increasing air and water temperatures on earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increase of nitrogen and phosphorous in lakes and estuaries. 21. What happens at a convergent plate boundary? A) Two tectonic plates sink beneath one another. B) Two tectonic plates collide and are forced together. C) Two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally. D) Two tectonic plates move apart and create a gap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two tectonic plates collide and are forced together. 22. Humans ..... atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began. A) Had increased. B) Increase. C) Have increased. D) Were increasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have increased. 23. Several species of tree frogs can live in the same tree ONLY because they A) Occupy different niches within the tree. B) Have different habitats within the tree. C) Don't eat food from the tree. D) Can find the different temperatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occupy different niches within the tree. 24. Scientific law and a scientific theory are similar in that both A) Are based on what we expect to happen based on natural history. B) Represent a large amount of scientific investigation and evidence. C) Describe the events that can be observed in nature. D) Explain why events and conditions occur as they do in the natural world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Represent a large amount of scientific investigation and evidence. 25. Period with below-average precipitation A) Ice age. B) Ice cap. C) Drought. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drought. 26. Large groups of ecosystems that share the same climate and similar types of communities. A) Biosphere. B) Biome. C) Environment. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biome. 27. Drought, soil loss, and problems with food distribution in a region can cause A) Poverty tagsSEV4. B) Erosion. C) Yield. D) Famine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Famine. 28. Which UN Goal addresses the doubling of agricultural productivity of small scale farms to help address this goal. A) Goal 1-No Poverty. B) Goal 2-No Hunger. C) UN Goal 3-Good Health and Well Being. D) UN Goal 15-Life on Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Goal 2-No Hunger. 29. A natural resource that is used at the same rate that it is replenished is called a resource. A) Renewable. B) Sustainable. C) Ecological. D) Nonrenewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable. 30. What does NOT cause the movement of tectonic plates? A) Volcanoes. B) Rain. C) Ocean trenches. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain. 31. The science that studies the inter-relationships between the various components of air, natural cycles, geological movements of the earth and climate is called ..... A) Weather. B) Meteorology. C) Meteorology Department. D) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meteorology. 32. Fracking is thought to be responsible for ..... leaks that have contaminated groundwater supplies. A) Oil. B) Natural gas. C) Coal. D) Petroleum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural gas. 33. What are non renewable resources? A) Natural resources that are formed much slower than we can use them. B) Non-Sustainable. C) Will run out soon. D) All are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are true. 34. A single black widow spider could be classified at what level of ecological organization? A) Ecosystem. B) Population. C) Organism. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism. 35. Acid precipitation can be traced back to A) The burning of fossil fuels. B) The use of electrostatic precipitators. C) The release of particulate matter into the atmosphere. D) Thermal inversions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The burning of fossil fuels. 36. How do food webs represent the flow of energy in the model? A) Food web models represent energy flow using arrows. B) Food web models represent energy flow by separating predator and prey. C) Food web models represent energy flow through chemical reaction equations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web models represent energy flow using arrows. 37. Why do mountains become lower in a long term? A) They need more air. B) It is caused by weathering. C) They want black soil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is caused by weathering. 38. During Kind Edward I's reign, why did he impose a death penalty? A) Making fires. B) Using gasoline. C) Burning coal. D) Driving vehicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning coal. 39. What causes geologic events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the creation of mountains? A) Lithospheric plate movement. B) Position of the planets. C) Ocean tides. D) Atmospheric pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithospheric plate movement. 40. I decided to see if feeding my fish dead insects would speed up their growth. I had 20 guppies so I put 10 in one aquarium and 10 in the other. One tank was fed the normal fish food. The other tank got the dead insects. What are the fish that got the dead insects? A) Experimental group. B) Control group. C) Dependent variables. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Experimental group. 41. The variety of life in the world, a habitat, or an ecosystem A) Ecosystem. B) Diversity. C) Biodiversity. D) Mutations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity. 42. Which of the following is not a type of fossil fuel? A) Coal. B) Light. C) Natural Gas. D) Petroleum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light. 43. What does domestic mean? A) Relating to school life. B) Housekeeping skills. C) Relating to home life. D) Relating to work life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relating to home life. 44. What step in the water cycle occurs when a water turns into water vapor? A) Condensation. B) Precipitation. C) Evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaporation. 45. A consumer that can eat both plants and animals. A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) Omnivores. D) Autotrophs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omnivores. 46. Which of the following should NOT be worn during a laboratory activity? A) Loose clothing. B) Dangling jewelry. C) Sandals. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. The ideal level for ammonia in an aquaponics system is ..... A) 4-5 ppm. B) 0 ppm-0.25 ppm. C) 0.50-1.0 ppm. D) 1.0-2.0 ppm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0 ppm-0.25 ppm. 48. An underground system that contains groundwater is called an ..... A) Recharge zone. B) Groundwater. C) Aquifer. D) River system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aquifer. 49. Ocean waves crash on a large rock wearing away its jagged edges. The ..... is interacting with the ..... A) Hydrosphere; geosphere. B) Atmosphere; geosphere. C) Hydrosphere; biosphere. D) Atmosphere, hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere; geosphere. 50. What is a climate proxy? A) A record of past climate. B) A preserved physical characteristic. C) A predictor of future climate. D) A substitute for climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A record of past climate. 51. Why are deserts in the South West? A) Jet stream drives wet air upwards because the rockies block out moisture from going further East. B) The jet stream randomly flows north taking moisture with it. C) No convections occur in the desert. D) There are upward convections driving the jet stream north. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jet stream drives wet air upwards because the rockies block out moisture from going further East. 52. Read the statement below and answer if it is a positive or negative feedback loop?As Earth warms, upper layers of permafrost melt, producing waterlogged soil above frozen ground:* Methane gas is released in an toxic environment * Greenhouse effect is enhanced * Earth warms, melting more permafrost A) Positive feedback loop. B) Negative feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive feedback loop. 53. Which of the following definitions best describes adaptation? A) The ability of an individual to survive and reproduce in its specific environment. B) An inherited characteristic of an organism which makes that organism better suited to its environment. C) A fact or situation that occurs in nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An inherited characteristic of an organism which makes that organism better suited to its environment. 54. Which of the following has a ( +, -) relationship? A) Competition. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 55. Zero degrees latitude is known as A) The Arctic Circle. B) The Equator. C) The International Dateline. D) The Prime Meridian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Equator. 56. How can we conserve natural resources? A) By using non-renewable resources. B) By wasting as much as possible. C) By reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, using energy-efficient appliances and vehicles, conserving water, planting trees, and practicing sustainable farming and fishing methods. D) By polluting the environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, using energy-efficient appliances and vehicles, conserving water, planting trees, and practicing sustainable farming and fishing methods. 57. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem is called: A) Biome. B) Biosphere. C) Biodiversity. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity. 58. What process removes a oxygen gas from the atmosphere? A) Cellular respiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Diffusion. D) Osmosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cellular respiration. 59. Which type of coal was exposed to the highest temperature and pressures for the longest time? A) Peat. B) Lignite. C) Bituminous. D) Anthracite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthracite. 60. The image an example of a ..... A) Biosphere. B) Organism. C) Population. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. ← 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