This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 172 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 172 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the atmosphere? A) Mr. Weinstein's knowledge level. B) The water beneath the earth's surface. C) The other planets besides Earth. D) Gases that surround the earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gases that surround the earth. 2. In what category of waste do paint, household cleaners, medical waste, and solvents belong? A) Hazardous. B) Compost. C) Municipal solid. D) Industrial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hazardous. 3. ..... causes aluminum to leach out of the soil surrounding a lake. A) Smog. B) Acid precipitation. C) Radon. D) Ground-level ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acid precipitation. 4. What is the main cause of air pollution? A) Excessive use of aerosol sprays. B) Burning fossil fuels. C) Release of harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. D) Deforestation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Release of harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. 5. Regardless of population size or density, these factors affect all populations similarly ..... A) Density-dependent limiting factors. B) Density-independent limiting factors. C) Carrying capacity. D) Exponential growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density-independent limiting factors. 6. ..... are resources that continue at the same rate into the foreseeable future. A) Sustainable resources. B) Independent resources. C) Dependent resources. D) Natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sustainable resources. 7. Which of the following is not a level of environmental issues? A) Local. B) Regional. C) Universal. D) Global. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal. 8. Less industrialized countries in which the average income and standards of living are low A) Sustainable world. B) Cost-benefit analysis. C) Ecological footprint. D) Developing countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Developing countries. 9. Which is NOT an example of a natural resource? A) Coal. B) Sunlight. C) Timber. D) Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic. 10. Most of the 90% of the energy that doesn't move on from trophic level to trophic level ..... A) Is absorbed into the soil. B) Is used to maintain the metabolism of that particular organism. C) Is used to make pretty babies. D) Is exerted in arguments with a mate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is used to maintain the metabolism of that particular organism. 11. Which type of mining is associated with disturbing more land? A) Surface mining. B) Subsurface mining. C) Ocean mining. D) Placer mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surface mining. 12. Strong wind has a very high speed. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. 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. 14. What is the definition of climate? A) The pattern of weather over time. B) The rain forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of weather over time. 15. 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. 16. What word means the solid particles that have settled out during the sedimentation process of water treatment. A) Sediment. B) Solubility. C) Settlement. D) Solidifying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sediment. 17. All living things on earth are part of the ..... A) Biosphere. B) Geosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Cryosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 18. 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. 19. Which of the following is NOT a way that carbon is transferred from animals to decomposers. A) In scraps of food. B) As carbon dioxide when they breathe. C) When they die. D) When they release bodily waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As carbon dioxide when they breathe. 20. 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. 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