This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 133 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 133 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A mineral is a ....., naturally occuring solid that has its own regular arrangement of particles in it. A) Living. B) Nonliving. C) Rock. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonliving. 2. Earth is covered by hundreds of types of ecosystems which are grouped by areas that have distinctive climates and organisms called ..... A) Niches. B) Biomes. C) Benthic zones. D) Habitats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biomes. 3. Select the correct order for the water treatment process. A) Sedimentation-Chlorination-Filtration. B) Sedimentation-Filtration-Chlorination. C) Filtration-Chlorination-Sedimentation. D) Filtration-Sedimentation-Chlorination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sedimentation-Filtration-Chlorination. 4. What tells how fast a given population grows? A) Population growth rate. B) Exponential growth model. C) Logistic growth model. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population growth rate. 5. Are located in a belt around the Earth near the equator. A) Chaparral. B) Desert. C) Savannah. D) Tropical rain forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical rain forest. 6. The Amazon Rainforest is a good example of this because many different species live there. A) Sustainability. B) Nomadic. C) Nonrenewable resources. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biodiversity. 7. In which type of rock are most fossils found? A) Sedimentary. B) Metamorphic. C) Igneous. D) Granite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sedimentary. 8. In Madagascar, several species of lemur eat bamboo, but each species specializes in one part of the bamboo-one species eats mature bamboo stalks, one species eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves. This is an example of A) Speciation. B) Competition. C) Resource partitioning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resource partitioning. 9. Which best explains how convection affects the atmosphere? A) Curving ocean currents move cold water from the Arctic to the equator, causing air to rise. B) Ocean currents move warm air upward creating a greenhouse effect. C) Sun heats Earth and then warm air rises to heat the atmosphere. D) Earth is heated by sea breezes and then warm air rises to heat the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun heats Earth and then warm air rises to heat the atmosphere. 10. Secondary succession (think soil) forms after a catastrophic event like a forest fire and has a ..... growth rate than primary succession because soil already exists. A) Extremely slower. B) Faster. C) Slower. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faster. 11. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the good ozone layer? A) Stratosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratosphere. 12. The layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom to top are A) Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere. B) Troposphere, mesosphere, atmosphere, thermosphere. C) Mesosphere, thermosphere, troposphere, stratosphere, exosphere. D) Thermosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, troposphere, exosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere. 13. Examples of Non-renewable resouces A) Minerals. B) Fossil Fuel. C) Species. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 14. Shrubs, squirrels, and trees interacting in a forest is considered a(n) A) Organism. B) Population. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Community. 15. Which of these would be included in the niche of a Tiger? A) The food it eats. B) Where it sleeps. C) Insects that bite it. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 16. Which of the following is an ecosystem? A) Vacant lot. B) Oak forest. C) Coral reef. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. How long you sleep affects your test score. Identify the dependent variable. A) Length of sleep. B) Test score. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Test score. 18. Aquifer:groundwater:: A) Life:oxygen. B) Ocean:radiation. C) Atmosphere:water vapor. D) Biosphere:land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere:water vapor. 19. Spinach is ..... of a plant. A) Stem. B) Leaf. C) Root. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaf. 20. Describes the chemical, physical and biological attributes of water as it is fit for drinking, fishing, swimming, farming, etc A) Water Quality. B) Water Sheds. C) Dissolved oxygen. D) Nitrates. 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