This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 429 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 429 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which best describes the use of a renewable resource? A) Filling a car with gasoline. B) Mining copper. C) Building wooden furniture. D) Burning coal in a power plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Building wooden furniture. 2. Order these words:aphotic zone, photic zone, benthic zone A) Photic zone, benthic zone, aphotic zone. B) Photic zone, aphotic zone, benthic zone. C) Aphotic zone, benthic zone, photic zone. D) Aphotic zone, photic zone, benthic zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photic zone, aphotic zone, benthic zone. 3. Which aquatic biomes have more than 1% saltwater? A) Oceans. B) Coastlines. C) Estuaries. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 4. Green spaces are A) Well development cities within urban areas. B) Well development farmland areas. C) Parks, wetlands, lakes, forests or other eco systems in urban areas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parks, wetlands, lakes, forests or other eco systems in urban areas. 5. An organism that makes their own food and considered the gateway of energy for a food chain is considered a(n) A) Primary producer. B) Primary consumer. C) Secondary consumer. D) Tertiary consumer. E) Apex predator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary producer. 6. Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator. It is measured with 180 imaginary lines that form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator. These lines are known as parallels. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change), 1.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year are released into the atmosphere due to deforestation. Until the early 1900s, deforestation was the dominant source of increased CO in the atmosphere. What has surpassed deforestation as the number one anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide emissions? A) Volcanic eruptions. B) Cellular respiration. C) Livestock production. D) Burning of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burning of fossil fuels. 8. ..... judges actions in terms of their benefit or harm to the integrity of whole systems, including living and nonliving elements. A) Biocentrism. B) Ecocentrism. C) Anthropocentrism. D) Environmental justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecocentrism. 9. A resource that is renewed or replenished over a short period of time A) Fossil Fuels. B) Renewable Natural Resource. C) Nonrenewable Natural Resource. D) Natural Resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable Natural Resource. 10. The carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas came from A) The combustion of fossil fuels. B) The remains of dead organisms. C) Carbon-fixing bacteria in swamp soil. D) Carbon dioxide dissolved in ocean water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The remains of dead organisms. 11. Which of the following is a reason that a country would have high birth rates? A) There is a policy limiting the number of children women can have. B) Due to their religion or culture they are encouraged to have a lot of children. C) The family lives in the city and works manufacturing jobs. D) Women are focusing on their careers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Due to their religion or culture they are encouraged to have a lot of children. 12. Scientific questions should be something answered with A) Lots of writing. B) Random facts. C) Numbers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Numbers. 13. Any useful material that is found in nature: A) Natural Resource. B) Human Resource. C) Plants. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural Resource. 14. Which in not an environmental function of wetlands A) Control Flooding. B) Filtering Pollutants. C) Providing Habitat for Animals. D) Polluting Oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polluting Oceans. 15. Zoning is a computerized system for storing, manipulating, and viewing geographic data. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. The Earth is this. A) Open system. B) Empty system. C) Closed system. D) Destroyed forever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Closed system. 17. The scientific study of interactions among organisms, populations, and communities and their interactions with their environment. A) Population. B) Ecology. C) Succession. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 18. How does the amount of water circulating in the water cycle change? A) The amount of water remains constant. B) The amount of water increases each time it rains. C) He amount of water decreases and then increases each day. D) The amount of water decreases every time evaporation occurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The amount of water remains constant. 19. What percentage of sunlight pierces the rain forest canopy? A) Less than 1 %. B) 90%. C) 50%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less than 1 %. 20. Water scarcity that is is a result of poor management of the sufficient available water. A) Economic water scarcity. B) Physical water scarcity. C) Arable land. D) IGO. 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