This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 115 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 115 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Yeasts, Mushrooms, and Mold are members of which Kingdom? A) Fungi. B) Protist. C) Plantae. D) The animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fungi. 2. 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. 3. What does the blue line represent on a climatograph? A) Precipitation. B) Temperature. C) Weather. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Precipitation. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. Winds are to the atmosphere as currents are to the ..... A) Biosphere. B) Geosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydrosphere. 10. 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. 11. Ecosystems located near the equator, such as Tropical Rain Forests, have more ..... than ecosystems at other locations on the planet. A) Diversity. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Uranium. D) Air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diversity. 12. Crop product has decreased by how much percent A) 50%. B) 10%. C) 70%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20%. 13. True or False:Water vapor is a greenhouse gas? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. Water which returns from the atmosphere to Earth's surface as rain or snow is called A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Condensation. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precipitation. 18. Which of the following are renewable resources? A) Species. B) Oil. C) Trees. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees. 19. 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. 20. The basic units of matter, the smallest units that maintain the chemical properties of an element, are called A) Compounds. B) Macromolecules. C) Lipids. D) Atoms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atoms. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesEnvironmental Sciences Quiz 1Environmental Sciences Quiz 2Environmental Sciences Quiz 3Environmental Sciences Quiz 4Environmental Sciences Quiz 5Environmental Sciences Quiz 6Environmental Sciences Quiz 7Environmental Sciences Quiz 8Environmental Sciences Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books