This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 177 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 177 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution. A) Competition. B) Symbiosis. C) Coevolution. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coevolution. 2. A device that has blades that can be turned by water, wind, steam, or exhaust gas from combustion that turns a generator in an electricity-producing plant. A) Generator. B) Turbine. C) Energy carrier. D) Energy source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turbine. 3. Chlorofluorocarbons is represented by the abbreviation ..... A) CFC. B) ChFC. C) Chl. D) Hydrocarbons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CFC. 4. The process of certain gasses trapping heat within the troposphere is known as ..... A) The girl. B) The boy. C) Global warming. D) The greenhouse effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The greenhouse effect. 5. Nitrogen is absorbed by the plants in the form of? A) Ammonium. B) Nitrites. C) Nitrate. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrate. 6. A student hypothesized that the amount of sunlight a sunflower plant receives determines the number of sunflower seeds the plant produces. In her experiment, the number of seeds produces is the A) Independent variable. B) Controlled variable. C) Manipulated variable. D) Dependent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dependent variable. 7. The inference can best be described as A) Data recorded as measurements. B) A logical explanation to a question or situation based on past knowledge and experience. C) Cyclical process including asking questions, making inferences, developing hypotheses, gathering data and drawing conclusions that leads to additional questions. D) Analysis of data that will support, fail to support or contradict a hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A logical explanation to a question or situation based on past knowledge and experience. 8. Very little sun reaches this part of the rainforest. A) Equal. B) Earth. C) Floor. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Floor. 9. How are forest resources defined? A) Is an ecosystem that includes flora, forest animals, wildlife, forest land and other environmental factors. B) It is an important component of the biosphere. C) Is an ecosystem that includes biological populations and surrounding environmental factors. D) It is vegetation consisting of large trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is an ecosystem that includes flora, forest animals, wildlife, forest land and other environmental factors. 10. What country has the lowest ecological footprint? A) USA. B) France. C) Germany. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America. 11. Smog is formed when nitrogen oxide mixes with ..... A) Water. B) Sunlight. C) Coal. D) Other gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sunlight. 12. What pesticide caused a drop in the eagle population and was eventually banned due to this? A) ADT. B) BTT. C) DTT. D) DDT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DDT. 13. What is NOT way coral reefs are being damaged A) Water is too hot or too cold. B) Water becomes muddy and destroys coral. C) Fish are being fed too much. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish are being fed too much. 14. About 20 percent of the total land in the U.S. is? A) Arid. B) Swamp. C) Cropland. D) Under urban development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cropland. 15. Nature makes natural resources at ..... speeds A) Slower. B) Same. C) Varied. D) Faster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Varied. 16. During secondary treatment in the aeration tanks, what is working on the sewage waste? A) Micro-organisms. B) Humans. C) Air titration. D) Oxidation/reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Micro-organisms. 17. This is the flow of underground water when it reaches the surface. A) Groundwater. B) Spring. C) Geyser. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spring. 18. The regulation of a stable internal condition is A) Inference. B) Adaptation. C) Primary succession. D) Homeostasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homeostasis. 19. At convergent plate boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meet ..... A) Continental crust is subducted. B) No associated volcanism occurs. C) Oceanic crust is created. D) Oceanic crust is subducted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oceanic crust is subducted. 20. Which of the follow belong to Chemistry? A) Geochemistry. B) Sociology. C) Botany. D) None of above. 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