This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 292 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 292 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the town of Podunk, Alabama, the population at the beginning of the year was 4882. If 48 people were born and 12 people died, what is the growth rate of the town? Births-Deaths = then / Pop = then X by 100 A) -.87%. B) 1.12%. C) .23%. D) .74%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) .74%. 2. When resources are not available a population will ..... in size. A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease. 3. Out of all the animals listed below, which one is considered a secondary consumer? A) Sunflower. B) Grasshopper. C) Frog. D) Bobcat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frog. 4. If you are testing the buoyancy (galleggiabilità) of a cotton ball and you leave one plain, cover one half in oil, and cover the third in oil completely then place each in water, what is the independent variable? A) Time. B) Water. C) Cotton ball. D) Amount of oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amount of oil. 5. What happens when something is unsustainable? A) It will run out. B) It can keep going. C) It will get better over time. D) Most people will use it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will run out. 6. Which layer of the atmosphere is most dense? A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 7. This law restricts the pollution of the atmosphere A) Clean Drinking Water Act. B) Clean Air Act. C) The EPA. D) Atmospheric Control Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clean Air Act. 8. Which type of selection would occur after a natural disaster such as a flood or an earthquake? A) Primary Succession. B) Secondary Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary Succession. 9. When layers of the Earth formed, the least dense layer ..... A) Sank to the bottom. B) Mixed with the other layers. C) Floated to the top. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Floated to the top. 10. Is an undesired change in air, water, or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms. A) Natural Resources. B) Pollution. C) Environmental Science. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 11. The most common source of carbon monoxide comes from ..... A) Vehicles. B) Swamp gases. C) Industrial sources. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vehicles. 12. A testable explanation that is based on observations and research is known as a A) Conclusion. B) Variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 13. This type of interaction is when one species benefits and the other is harmed. A) Parasitism. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 14. Any significant change in measures of climate, such as temperature lasting for an extended period of a decade or longer. A) BIOTECHNOLOGY. B) CLIMATE CHANGE. C) CONVECTION. D) COMPOST. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CLIMATE CHANGE. 15. What is the shape of an age structure diagram for the following:growing population? A) . B) . C) . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 16. A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. A) Subsidy. B) Policy. C) Environmental economics. D) Environmental policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Policy. 17. ..... means moving into a population. A) Immigration. B) Emmigration. C) Plantation. D) Repopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigration. 18. Name that cycle:The one that gives plants their food via photosynthesis. A) Nitrogen Cycle. B) Water Cycle. C) Carbon Cycle. D) Oxygen Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon Cycle. 19. What percent of water on Earth is freshwater? A) 1%. B) 2%. C) 3%. D) 4%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3%. 20. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own A) Environment. B) Ecosystem. C) Sustainability. D) The Endangered Species Act. E) John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainability. ← 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