This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 304 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 304 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following situations best describes the ideal use of a renewable resource? A) Filling a car with a small gas tank and engine with gasoline and motor oil. B) Building wooden furniture from recycled wood and natural materials. C) Mining copper in with a deep underground mine with flashlights that use renewable batteries. D) Burning coal in a power plant and cleaning up coal dust inside with brooms and vacuums. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Building wooden furniture from recycled wood and natural materials. 2. Where are many critical biodiversity hotspots located? A) Cities and developed areas of the world. B) Islands, tropical rain forests, and coastal areas. C) Desert and polar environments. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Islands, tropical rain forests, and coastal areas. 3. How do wind turbines generate electricity? A) Wind passes through tunnels that collect electrostatic energy. B) Wind turns blades, which powers an electric generator. C) Filters capture energy particles from wind. D) Turbine blades spin to generate wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wind turns blades, which powers an electric generator. 4. Negatively charged particles that are located in the cloud around the nucleus are called A) Protons. B) Neturon. C) Electrons. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electrons. 5. A group of individuals or events selected to represent the population. A) Probability. B) Distribution. C) Sample. D) Probability. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sample. 6. As the population is increasing, what is decreasing? A) The number of people on Earth. B) Number of Plants. C) Number of Animals. D) Natural Resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural Resources. 7. Which of the following is not a planetary boundary that could tip in the wrong direction and cause severe damage to Earth? A) Biodiversity loss. B) Climate change. C) Ozone depletion. D) Increased ice formation at Earth's poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased ice formation at Earth's poles. 8. Type of heat flow that involves the transfer of heat from one molecule to another molecule A) Conduction. B) Convection. C) Radiation. D) Insulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conduction. 9. What is the water footprint? A) Water for cellular processes. B) Water required by our body. C) Water quantity required to produce goods & services. D) Water for travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water quantity required to produce goods & services. 10. The largest number of individuals that an environment can support long term is ..... A) Immigration. B) Emigration. C) Population density. D) Carrying capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carrying capacity. 11. The following animals are common to which land biome? (anaconda, gorilla, monkey, toucan bird, red-eyed tree frog, python, jaguar, three-toed sloth, anteater, macaw bird) A) Deciduous Forest. B) Tropical Rain Forest. C) Tundra. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tropical Rain Forest. 12. Where are most ocean trenches located? A) At the boundary between two plates. B) At the center of oceanic plates. C) At the center of continental plates. D) Beneath very wide mountain ranges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the boundary between two plates. 13. Which process is believed to initiate the increase in oxygen in our atmosphere? A) Condensation. B) Outgassing. C) Photosynthesis. D) Barometric pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 14. What period of US Environmental Policy was the National Park System created? A) 1st. B) And. C) An offer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) And. 15. True or False:All plants produce flowers. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. Which is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment; it seeks to understand the vital connections between plants and animals and the world around them? A) Ecology. B) Geosciences. C) Biology. D) Environmental Chemistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecology. 17. An animal that eats both plants and animals is a (an) A) Decoposer. B) Carnivore. C) Herbivore. D) Omnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omnivore. 18. Organisms that eat only plants are ..... A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) Omnivores. D) Food chains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 19. Which agricultural practice helps in reducing the runoff of pesticides into water bodies? A) No-till farming. B) Intensive plowing. C) Overgrazing. D) Monocropping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No-till farming. 20. We do not use..... for drinking. A) River water. B) Pond water. C) Ocean water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ocean water. ← 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