Environmental Sciences Quiz 233 (20 MCQs)

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1. A law that regulates the release of hazardous substances into the air, soil, and water by mining operations

Correct Answer: C) Comprehensive response compensation and liability act.

2. Biotic factors in an environment include?

Correct Answer: B) Living things-animals, plants and people.

3. Which sphere would satellites orbit the Earth?

Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere.

4. Which of the following is NOT protected or managed by regulation?

Correct Answer: A) Technology.

5. Snow forms when the temperature is below freezing.

Correct Answer: A) True.

6. These plants spread their branches on the ground.

Correct Answer: C) Creepers.

7. The base of the ocean's food chain is usually:

Correct Answer: D) Plankton.

8. Which is an example of competition?

Correct Answer: A) Two species of insects that feed on the same rare plant.

9. Which is not a part of our body?

Correct Answer: B) Ice-cream.

10. Which layer of the atmosphere does all weather occur?

Correct Answer: B) Troposphere.

11. What is the idea that geologic processes are occurring now are the same as those that occurred in the past?

Correct Answer: B) Uniformitarianism.

12. An organized procedure used by scientists to test a hypothesis.

Correct Answer: B) Experiment.

13. Which statement about water pollution is TRUE?

Correct Answer: C) Pollution affects both surface and groundwater.

14. The spinning of a planet on its axis is called

Correct Answer: A) Rotation.

15. If a natural disturbance occurs and a species undergoes a bottleneck effect, the resulting genetic diversity will be .....

Correct Answer: B) Decreased.

16. LPG FULL FORM

Correct Answer: A) LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS.

17. Environmental science is?

Correct Answer: C) Interdisciplinary and mission-oriented.

18. These countries typically have simple, agriculture-based economies

Correct Answer: B) Developing countries.

19. The study of Earth's atmosphere and climate.

Correct Answer: D) Climatology.

20. Consumer that eats only other animals

Correct Answer: C) Carnivore.