This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 21 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How do animals get carbon? A) By eating plants and or other animals. B) They absorb it from the atmosphere. C) From the ground. D) They do not get carbon from anywhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By eating plants and or other animals. 2. The oceans and marine organisms play a role in the carbon cycle. When marine organisms die, they settle to the floor to become limestone. I the limestone is exposed at the surface where chemical weathering takes place ..... is produced. A) Fossil fuels. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Coal. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sand. 3. Eutrophication has been controlled in Lake Erie. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Which biome consists of grasses, shrubs, cold temperatures, and the permafrost? A) Taiga. B) Tundra. C) Temperate forest. D) Temperate grasslands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra. 5. Natural Gas is a A) Renewable Resource. B) Nonrenewable Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonrenewable Resource. 6. The greenhouse effect is a natural process that warms the Earth's surface. A) True. B) False. C) Not sure. D) I don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. ..... are areas of land that are flooded with water at least part of the year. A) Wetlands. B) Estuaries. C) Deserts. D) Flood plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wetlands. 8. What displays trends of data or data in motion? A) Graphs. B) Tables. C) Baby animal pictures. D) Verbal expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graphs. 9. Which of the following is included as a component of biomes? A) Temperature. B) Seasons. C) Organic measurement. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seasons. 10. Includes environmental and health costs of producing goods/services A) Full cost pricing. B) Engineering. C) Environmentalism. D) Political science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full cost pricing. 11. Which is NOT a way to conserve energy? A) Using a desktop computer rather than a laptop. B) Consolidating errands while to make fewer car tips. C) Replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. D) Lowering thermostats during cold months. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using a desktop computer rather than a laptop. 12. Ow do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle? A) Respiration and photosynthesis. B) Respiration and decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Respiration and decomposition. 13. Man has a tendency to misuse or overexploit any resource that is held in common public ownership. A) True. B) False tagsEN.LS2.7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. A nuclear reactor is A) Powered by a combustion chamber in which uranium is burned. B) Surrounded by a thick pressure vessel filled with a cooling fluid. C) Superheated by water until the control rods are set into motion. D) Constructed from thick aluminum walls to control nuclear reactions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surrounded by a thick pressure vessel filled with a cooling fluid. 15. Laws and policies implemented by the government to regulate resource usage. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which of the following are producers of oxygen? A) Animals. B) Automobiles. C) Plants. D) Insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants. 17. Jane is interested in studying how physical aspects of the environment interact with the environment's chemical processes. Which discipline will help Jane pursue her interest? A) Social sciences. B) Human health sciences. C) Mathematics. D) Natural sciences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural sciences. 18. The seven environmental principles state that all forms of life are important. All forms of organism have important role and removing any of them in eco system has a serious effect on the whole ecosystem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. Match the definition:Organisms of the same group or species living in the same area and are able to interbreed. A) Population. B) Community. C) Ecosystem. D) Biosphere. E) Symbiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population. 20. This is essential to living organisms, it is found in nucleic acid and amino acids. A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon. C) Water. D) Phosphorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen. ← 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