This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 42 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way a mineral splits is called? A) Hardness. B) Layers. C) Bands. D) Cleavage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleavage. 2. Alkalinity is important for fish and aquatic life because it protects or buffers against rapid pH changes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Which correctly describes ecology? A) Study of animals. B) Deals with interactions among organisms. C) Study of earth's land. D) Science concerned with livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deals with interactions among organisms. 4. A. admit B. emit C. climate D. injure A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. 5. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the most ozone gas? A) Exosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Stratosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratosphere. 6. Which of the following is NOT a density-dependent factor? A) Storms. B) Predators. C) Disease. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Storms. 7. Most diverse forest A) Coniferous. B) Rain. C) Deciduous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain. 8. The United States and Canada have one of the largest Ecological Footprints A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. There are two "revolutions" that changed the human population, and the way resources were used. What was the "revolution" in which people began to grow crops, stopped moving long distances following moving food resources, and began to experience an increase in their life span? A) Agricultural Revolution. B) Spanish-American Revolution. C) Industrial Revolution. D) Civil Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agricultural Revolution. 10. Students are describing the ecosystem in an area. Which of these lists ALL the components the students should include in their description? A) All plant and animal species. B) All living and non-living factors. C) All weather patterns and climates. D) All elements and chemical substances. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All living and non-living factors. 11. When two plates are moving away from each other creating a space between them (ridge) A) Convergent boundary. B) Divergent boundary. C) Subduction zone. D) Transform boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divergent boundary. 12. Which of these is one cause of deforestation? A) Urbanization. B) Buying a Christmas tree during the holidays. C) Overbreeding birds in the wild. D) Cutting down the tree in your backyard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urbanization. 13. What are the 2 most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere? A) Carbon dioxide and oxygen. B) Carbon dioxide and nitrogen. C) Nitrogen and oxygen. D) Nitrogen and hydrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen and oxygen. 14. 78% of the earth's atmosphere is made of ..... A) Oxygen. B) Hydrogen. C) NItrogen. D) Sulfur Dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NItrogen. 15. Which describes an estuary? A) A large body of fresh water. B) A large body of salt water. C) The wide, lower course of a river where fresh and salt water mix. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The wide, lower course of a river where fresh and salt water mix. 16. If you see large grazing herbivores, you are most probably in the ..... A) Tundra. B) Taiga. C) Temperate forest. D) Grasslands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grasslands. 17. Which lists metric units, in order, from smallest to largest? A) Milligram, centigram, gram. B) Kilogram, gram, centigram. C) Decagram, hectogram, milligram. D) Kilogram, hectogram, decagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Milligram, centigram, gram. 18. A smart grid will improve on the current electrical grid by ..... A) Preventing power outages from taking place. B) Requiring electricity producers to use renewable energy. C) Eliminating the need to build wind farms in remote areas. D) Using digital technology to increase efficiency. E) Charging customers flat rates instead of variable rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using digital technology to increase efficiency. 19. ..... is a process where the decomposition is done with the help of microbes. A) Thermal conversion. B) Thermo-Chemical Conversion. C) Bio-Chemical Conversion. D) Electro-chemical conversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bio-Chemical Conversion. 20. Which of the following situations contributes to stability in an ecosystem? A) Increase in biodiversity. B) Decrease in biodiversity. C) Extinction of a population from the ecosystem. D) Removal of many populations of organisms. 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