This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 268 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 268 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... succession occurs where plants have NOT previously existed. A) Primary. B) Secondary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary. 2. Any natural material that is used by humans such as water, gas, minerals, forest and animals A) Natural resources. B) Pollution. C) Ecology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural resources. 3. What do we need to replace nonrenewable resources with? A) Renewable/sustainable resources. B) Other nonrenewable resources. C) We don't need to replace them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable/sustainable resources. 4. Which electromagnetic waves have the highest frequencies and the shortest wavelengths? A) Microwaves. B) Visible light. C) Gamma rays. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gamma rays. 5. What is a harmful algal bloom caused by algae that produce reddish pigments? A) Red tide. B) Cultural eutrophication. C) Pathogen. D) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red tide. 6. Fertilizer use is associated with what environmental impact? A) Harmful algal blooms. B) Acid rain. C) Deforestation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harmful algal blooms. 7. From what does oil form? A) Marine organisms. B) Terrestrial plants. C) Dinosaurs. D) Lava or magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marine organisms. 8. Storm drains produce which type of waste? A) Municipal solid waste. B) Industrial waste. C) Hazardous waste. D) Wastewater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wastewater. 9. ..... is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years. A) Renewable Energy Resource. B) Non-Renewable Energy Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable Energy Resource. 10. The sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats and is eaten then eaten by another. A) Food chain. B) Water cycle. C) Food web. D) Cellular respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food chain. 11. Which areas on Earth are warming the fastest? A) Pacific Ocean. B) Sahara Desert. C) Tropical rainforests. D) Arctic and Antarctic regions (by the poles). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arctic and Antarctic regions (by the poles). 12. I am travelling to Delhi by bus. Which place will I go and board a bus. A) Parking lot. B) Bus stop. C) Railway station. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bus stop. 13. Which of the following would you expect to see in the emergent layer of a tropical rain forest? A) Grasses, insects, and small succulents. B) Eagles, bats, and snakes. C) Lichens, mosses, and dwarf woody plants. D) Epiphytes, small burrowing mammals, and burrowing toads. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eagles, bats, and snakes. 14. A thermal inversion is when dense cold air doesn't rise and pollution accumulates? True or False? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of incineration? A) May produce leachate that contaminates the groundwater. B) Gases released need to be treated with a scrubber. C) Fly ash has to be removed in the baghouse. D) Fly ash has to be disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) May produce leachate that contaminates the groundwater. 16. Nuclear Power is utilized by the United States to create electricity but the waste created can cause A) Illness. B) Death. C) Both of these. D) Neither of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 17. Five oceans that make up the world ocean A) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern. B) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Northern. C) Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian & Arctic. D) Arctic, Antarctic, Southern, Pacific & Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern. 18. Economics is ..... A) The amount of product offered for sale. B) A comparison of sacrifice and gain by a specific action. C) The amount of product bought at a certain price. D) The study of how resources are converted into goods and services. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The study of how resources are converted into goods and services. 19. What is the term for a type of energy that does not use up natural resources or harm the environment? A) Alternative energy. B) Renewable energy. C) Sustainable energy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. A(n) ..... is based on observations and must be testable and falsifiable. A) Hypothesis. B) Experiment. C) Conclusion. D) Your mom. 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