This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 278 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 278 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You are your parent's child. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. How do the plates move along convergent boundaries? A) They move towards one another. B) They move away from one another. C) They move past one another. D) One moves up and one moves down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They move towards one another. 3. A pack of wolfs hunts the rabbits in the area to the point where there are not enough rabbits to feed the wolves. The pack begins to decrease in size until the rabbit population grows again. Which type of feedback is this? A) Negative Feedback. B) Positive Feedback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative Feedback. 4. What is created by forming hard shells based on available minerals? A) Fossils. B) Ice cores. C) Tree rings. D) Paleoclimatologists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fossils. 5. The process by which oil is heated to separate it into various fuels and other components with different boiling points A) Hydraulic fracturing (fracking). B) Refining. C) Peak production. D) Horizontal drilling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refining. 6. Organism that receives energy from producers A) Herbivore. B) Omnivore. C) Carnivore. D) Decoposer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herbivore. 7. In some cases, mining exposes sulfur oxides to the air. When they join with water, they can form sulfuric acid. As this material moves, what kind of weathering can it cause? A) Chemical weathering. B) Mechanical weathering. C) Erosion. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemical weathering. 8. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer? A) Mesosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Stratosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratosphere. 9. Which of the following can change a system from being stable? A) Negative feedback. B) Binary feedback. C) Positive feedback. D) Isolated feedback. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Positive feedback. 10. Choose the correct process described:A chemical combination of a carbon based fuel with oxygen that produces heat or light and releases CO2 A) Photosynthesis. B) Burial and subduction. C) Respiration. D) Combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Combustion. 11. Leo does an experiment to test how the type of water affects the growth of a plant. Which of the following is NOT a constant? A) Amount of water. B) Type of plant. C) Type of soil. D) Type of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Type of water. 12. Mesosphere A) Electrically charged atoms. B) How air is heated near Earth's surface. C) One of the most abundant greenhouse gases. D) The coldest layer of Earth's atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The coldest layer of Earth's atmosphere. 13. Warm, wet biome that occurs in a belt around the Earth near the equator and that contains the greatest diversity of organisms on Earth. A) Savannah. B) Tundra. C) Desert. D) Tropical rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical rainforest. 14. Which of the following organisms is a decomposer? A) A plant. B) A tiger. C) A mushroom. D) A deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A mushroom. 15. ..... Costs-Those that are ignored, not recognized, or whose effects accumulate over time, but that eventually must be paid. A) Deferred. B) Preferred. C) Resource. D) Reserved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deferred. 16. A government strategy to help sustainability can be to keep energy ..... high for selected resources to discourage their use. A) Low. B) Prices. C) Expensive. D) Costly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prices. 17. Why are fossil fuels considered to be nonrenewable energy sources? A) They are constantly being made. B) They can be used up faster than they are made. C) They are cycled within a few years. D) They are able to reproduce to create more energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They can be used up faster than they are made. 18. The ocean floor, may get no sunlight at all; A) Littoral zone. B) Neritic zone. C) Oceanic zone. D) Benthic zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benthic zone. 19. One disadvantage of wind energy is that A) Wind turbines are not cost-effective. B) Large amounts of farmland are needed for the turbines. C) It must be transported from its source to where it is needed. D) Wind turbines generate only small amounts of energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large amounts of farmland are needed for the turbines. 20. Which process is most responsible for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? A) Respiration. B) Combustion. C) Decomposition. D) Photosynthesis. 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