This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 388 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 388 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is an advantage of nuclear energy? A) It poses no safety risks. B) It does not produce air pollution. C) It is cost-efficient. D) It does not produce solid waste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It does not produce air pollution. 2. Collection of data in the form of numbers. A) Statistics. B) Models. C) Correlations. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistics. 3. What do the arrows indicate in a food web? A) What eats what. B) Where the energy is being transferred. C) How the animals are related. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where the energy is being transferred. 4. Using scientific information from chemistry and biology to devise a plan to clean up a lake and make it healthy again describes A) Ecology. B) Environmental science. C) Earth science. D) Social science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Environmental science. 5. A possible explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested. A) Data. B) Theory. C) Hypothesis. D) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 6. What is the tiniest particle in the entire universe? A) Cells. B) Gases. C) Atoms. D) Liquids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atoms. 7. What means the same thing as heterotroph? A) Omnivore. B) Autotroph. C) Herbivore. D) Consumer. E) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consumer. 8. True or False:Only the Federal Government can enact environmental policy. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Water found below Earth's surface A) Fresh water. B) Groundwater. C) Surface water. D) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Groundwater. 10. True or False:The most common critique of the cap-and-trade system is that companies competing in a free market will produce better solutions at a lower cost than a government can. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. All the Blue Jays in a forest are a: A) Organism. B) Population. C) Community. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 12. Which of the following is the available biomass for the consumption to heterotrophs? A) Secondary productivity. B) Ecological efficiency. C) Net primary productivity. D) Gross primary productivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Net primary productivity. 13. The person who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift in 1911 was ..... A) Richter. B) Wegener. C) John. D) Hess. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wegener. 14. Ozone is located in the ..... A) Ionosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Stratosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratosphere. 15. Who would have a larger ecological footprint? A) Someone who buys more things and travels a lot. B) Someone who buys few things and travels less. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who buys more things and travels a lot. 16. World Environment Day is celebrated on ..... every year. A) 5th June. B) 6th June. C) 15th June. D) 5th July. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5th June. 17. The most commonly used approach to solar energy collection is ....., in which buildings are designed and building materials chosen to maximize their direct absorption of sunlight in winter, even as they keep the interior cool in the heat of summer. A) Active. B) Passive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passive. 18. Which is NOT true of the nitrogen cycle? A) Animals get nitrogen by eating plants or other animals. B) Bacteria are the only organisms who can process atmospheric nitrogen. C) Plants breathe in nitrogen. D) Decomposers break down waste to make a usable form of nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants breathe in nitrogen. 19. The area inside the city is called ..... A) Urban. B) Suburban. C) Rural. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban. 20. It is a way of turning waste products into something useful. A) Waste Generation. B) Recycling. C) Re-engineering. D) Waste Collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling. ← 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