This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 155 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 155 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are some ways to reduce your ecological footprint? A) Making sustainable choices in transportation, energy use, food consumption, and waste management. B) Not recycling or composting. C) Using more fossil fuels. D) Eating more meat and dairy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making sustainable choices in transportation, energy use, food consumption, and waste management. 2. The natural environment exploited by humans leads to ..... A) Change in habitat. B) Change in ecosystem. C) Environmental degradation. D) Changes in environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environmental degradation. 3. Which of the following is a major field of study within Environmental Science? A) History. B) Anatomy. C) Chemistry. D) Physiology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemistry. 4. What is the name of the thin layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust. 5. Environmental science is a study of which types of interactions between humans and the environment? A) How humans use natural resources. B) How humans beings relate to the nonliving environment. C) How human actions alter the environment. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. What always remains the same in an experiment? A) Variable. B) Constant. C) Dependent Variable. D) Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Control. 7. The experimental treatment differs from the control treatment only in the ..... being studied. A) Experiment. B) Variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variable. 8. Someone thinks that it is important to manage forests in a way that they provide lumber for use in building and export, but also remain as good habitat for forest species and grow sustainably into the future. What is this perspective called? A) A biocentric conservationist. B) A preservationist. C) A utilitarian conservationist. D) Environmentalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A utilitarian conservationist. 9. What is the greatest cause for excess carbon in the atmosphere? A) Burning of fossil fuels. B) Overgrazing of grasslands. C) Planting fewer crops. D) Severe drought. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burning of fossil fuels. 10. ..... is the process of rock formation that changes the mineral composition of the rock. A) Sedimentation. B) Weathering. C) Metamorphosis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metamorphosis. 11. Natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted A) Renewable resource. B) Nonrenewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonrenewable resource. 12. In most organisms, the set of all of an individual's genes is divided into A) DNA. B) Chromosomes. C) Carbohydrates. D) Lipids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chromosomes. 13. What is an example of a producer? A) Rabbit. B) Cow. C) Lichen. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lichen. 14. The uppermost level at which the water in a given area fully saturates rock or soil. A) Impermeable surface. B) Rock and mantle. C) Water table. D) Groundwater recharge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water table. 15. The study of organisms and how they interact with their living and nonliving environment is called A) Environmental science. B) Ecology. C) Biology. D) Chemistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 16. Sun Path Diagram gives you A) Horizontal Shadow Angle. B) Vertical Shadow angle. C) Right Angle. D) Azimuth Angle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Azimuth Angle. 17. Energy in the form of heat moves throughout the water cycle. What is the original source of the energy that moves through the water cycle? A) The Sun. B) Radioactive decay. C) The greenhouse effect. D) Atmospheric convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Sun. 18. Things we take from the environment and use are called: A) Rocks. B) Natural resources. C) Pollutants. D) Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural resources. 19. A study was done to see if different tire treads affect the braking distance of a car. What is the dependent variable? A) Tire treads. B) Braking distance. C) Road conditions. D) Model of car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Braking distance. 20. Illegal hunting A) Overgrazing. B) Poaching. C) Tactic planning. D) Polarizing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poaching. ← 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