This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 377 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 377 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Crude oil, coal, and natural gas are classified as ..... fuels because they have formed over millions of years from the decayed remains of ancient organisms. A) Renewable. B) Alternative. C) Fossil. D) Net energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil. 2. Which process uses oxygen to make energy? A) Respiration. B) Photsynthesis. C) Osmosis. D) Active Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respiration. 3. Result of green house gases effect is A) Flood. B) Global warming. C) Inversion of temperature. D) Industrial pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global warming. 4. The amount of product or service people will buy at a given price if free to do so A) Supply. B) Demand. C) Cap-and-trade. D) Lobbying. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demand. 5. The first step in surface coal mining is A) To remove and set aside the soil that covers the area to be mined. B) To use heavy equipment to take core samples. C) To test to see if quarrying would be more effective. D) To make cuts in the coal for easier removal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To remove and set aside the soil that covers the area to be mined. 6. During harvest season farmers would collect what? A) Animals. B) Plants. C) Seeds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seeds. 7. If 50 molecules of carbon dioxide are detected in a volume of air containing 1 million molecules, the carbon dioxide reading would be: A) 50 parts per million. B) 5 parts per million. C) 500 parts per million. D) 50 parts per billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50 parts per million. 8. A U.S. senator from Maine wants to find out the opinion of the voters in his state on issues concerning education. The office of the senator passes out surveys on ten street corners in the five major cities in the state of Maine. Is this random? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 9. Coagulate A) To make a liquid thinner or in a more fluid state. B) To change a liquid to a solid or semisolid state. C) To thin the blood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To change a liquid to a solid or semisolid state. 10. Most of the pollutants in the ocean come from A) Commercial boats and personal watercraft. B) Spills from oil tankers. C) Activities on land. D) Leaking underground storage facilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Activities on land. 11. Organisms that live at the bottom of oceans or bodies of fresh water A) Benthos. B) Nekton. C) Littoral. D) Limnetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benthos. 12. Oceanography is A) The study of fish. B) The study of the Ocean. C) The study of plants under water. D) The study of rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The study of the Ocean. 13. A. disruption B. pollutant C. emission D. atmosphere A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. 14. An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter instead of producing its own nutrients or obtaining nutrients from inorganic sources. A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Decoposer. D) Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumer. 15. The burning of fossil fuels ..... A) Prevents ocean acidification because it puts extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. B) Contributes to ocean acidification because it puts extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. C) Prevents ocean acidification because it stabilizes the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. D) Contributes to ocean acidification because it stabilizes the amount of carbon dioxide in theatmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contributes to ocean acidification because it puts extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 16. The long, thin wax coated needles of conifers help the trees A) Deter predators. B) Catch sunlight. C) Conserve water and shed snow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conserve water and shed snow. 17. One of the five layers of the atmosphere, lying immediately above the troposphere and extending from 10km to about 50km above the Earth's surface A) Atmosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Balloonasphere. D) Ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratosphere. 18. ..... is when the weather and temperature change over a long period of time. A) Fuel. B) Climate change. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Emissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate change. 19. Estuaries are a transition zone between A) Warm and cool water. B) Shallow and deep water. C) Turbid and clear water. D) Salt water and freshwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salt water and freshwater. 20. What is a point-source pollution? A) Oil spilling from supertankers. B) Drainpipe spilling waste into river. C) Toxic Chemicals. D) Single sites of waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drainpipe spilling waste into river. ← 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