This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 269 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 269 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... are LARGE areas that have similar climate, plant life, and animals. A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Biomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biomes. 2. The rural areas are ..... populated. A) Densely. B) Highly. C) Largely. D) Sparsely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sparsely. 3. Which of the following sciences contribute to the field of environmentalscience? A) Physics and chemistry. B) Biology and earth science. C) Social sciences. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist. Think of it as the cause of change in the experiment. A) Dependent variable. B) Independent variable. C) Data. D) Control group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent variable. 5. An effect of climate change is stronger storms. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming and raising livestock. A) Agricultural Revolution. B) Agricultural lifestyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agricultural Revolution. 7. What makes a vegetable also a fruit? A) You can eat it. B) It tastes sweet. C) It has seeds. D) It is colorful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has seeds. 8. A farmer decides to test the effectiveness of three fertilizers on growth of strawberry plants. The DEPENDENT variable in his experiment would be what? A) Growth (height) of strawberry plants. B) Brand of fertilizer. C) Amount of water each plant needed. D) What type of plant grew more. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growth (height) of strawberry plants. 9. Which is formed when a section of impermeable rock forces groundwater to move laterally and emerge onto the surface of Earth? A) A spring. B) An aquifer. C) A geyser. D) A well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A spring. 10. Earth would be ..... without the Greenhouse Effect A) Too cold. B) Too hot. C) Too wet. D) Lacking in oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Too cold. 11. Who had a campaign for planting 1 billion trees (still ongoing today)? A) Thomas Hylton. B) Wangari Mata. C) Rachel Carson. D) E. O. Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wangari Mata. 12. Matter in which the particles are free to move in all directions until they have spread evenly throughout their container is a ..... A) Plasma. B) Liquid. C) Solid. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gas. 13. Nitrogen exists in the atmosphere in the form of ..... A) NH4+. B) Type-. C) Na. D) Storm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Na. 14. Which pollution control method was proposed by an amendment of the Clean Air Act? A) Allowing tolls to limit the use of automobiles. B) A market for sulfur emissions. C) The regulation of radon emissions. D) The use of catalytic converters. E) Chemicals developed to prevent the formation of ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A market for sulfur emissions. 15. Regenerative farming does all the following Except? A) Biodiversity. B) Protect the soils. C) Plan grazing. D) Monoculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monoculture. 16. What is greenhouse effect? A) Trapping heat from the sun in the atmosphere. B) Trapping O2. C) Trapping Nitrogen. D) Releasing heat from the sun to outer space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trapping heat from the sun in the atmosphere. 17. Which is not a major events of the carbon cycle? A) Photosynthesis. B) Evaporation. C) Respiration. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaporation. 18. A lake that has a large amount of plant growth due to nutrients A) Eutrophic Lake. B) Mangrove Swamp. C) Salt Marsh. D) Estuary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eutrophic Lake. 19. A key stone species is ..... A) The top carnivore. B) Has the largest population. C) Has the most specialized niche. D) Species that determines the impact on a community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Species that determines the impact on a community. 20. System that tells consumers which brands are made with processes that do not harm the environment A) Subsidy. B) Cost-benefit analysis. C) Policy. D) Ecolabeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecolabeling. ← 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