This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 433 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 433 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated? A) Spirally. B) Unevenly. C) Circularly. D) Kinetically. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unevenly. 2. Select the correct order of waves on the EMS from the longest wavelength to the shortest wavelength A) Radio, Micro, Infra, Visible, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. B) Gamma, X-ray, Ultra, Vis, Infra, Micro, Radio. C) Vis, Micro, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma, Radio. D) Micro, Radio, Vis, Infra, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radio, Micro, Infra, Visible, Ultra, X-ray, Gamma. 3. Among the levels of organization, in which level do spinal cord belongs? A) Organs. B) . System. C) Organism. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organs. 4. A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ..... A) Continents were once joined. B) The sea floor is spreading. C) Continents are moving. D) The Earth's magnetic pole flips. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continents are moving. 5. The buildup of soil in aquatic ecosystems A) Contour farming. B) Cover crops. C) Siltation. D) Loaming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siltation. 6. What is causing many animals, such as the box turtle's habitat to be fragmented? A) Houses. B) Streams. C) Powerlines. D) Roads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roads. 7. How did they transport the statues around Easter Island? A) Pulled with logs and ropes. B) Carried by the natives. C) Pulled by ropes making them "walk". D) The aliens transported them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulled by ropes making them "walk". 8. Bees pollinating our crops would be considered what type of ecosystem service? A) Provisioning. B) Regulating. C) Supporting. D) Cultural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supporting. 9. Fill in the blank:Sun $\rightarrow$ ..... $\rightarrow$ Consumer $\rightarrow$ Decomposer A) Producer. B) Herbivore. C) Omnivore. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer. 10. The organisms rank on the pyramid is the ..... A) Food Web. B) Trophic Level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trophic Level. 11. Some power plants pump water down deep holes into hot rock. The hot rock heats the water, which turns the water into steam. The steam rushes back to Earth's surface and is used to make electricity. This plant is generating which alternative energy resource? A) Biomass. B) Wind. C) Solar energy. D) Geothermal energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geothermal energy. 12. Water supply to the reservoir should be the following: A) Irregular and small in volume with cold climate. B) Regular and small in volume with a dry climate. C) Irregular and large in volume with a hot climate. D) Regular and large in volume with a cold climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regular and large in volume with a cold climate. 13. Look at the Vocab Picture, "Survivorship Curve" What organism is in the middle of Juan's graph? A) Bird. B) Monkey. C) Mr. Graham. D) Donkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bird. 14. Which of the following is NOT a way to combat climate change? A) Cap-and-trade. B) Weakening restrictions in the Clean air act. C) Carbon Taxes. D) Carbon offsets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weakening restrictions in the Clean air act. 15. ..... Observations are factual descriptions or Measurements. A) Quantitative. B) Qualitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantitative. 16. The gene pool of two populations is separated. The populations may develop into a new species and this is called ..... A) Natural selection. B) Speciation. C) Genetic separation. D) Interspecific competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speciation. 17. Which type of plate boundary is located at the San Andreas Fault? A) Divergent. B) Subduction. C) Convergent. D) Transform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transform. 18. Which is a major source of air pollution created by humans? A) Hydroelectric plants. B) Industrial factories. C) Reforestation. D) Nuclear power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial factories. 19. Climate change and the warming of our oceans will likely make global inequalities worse, partially because catches in tropical regions are expected to decrease A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. The total effect of a large number of people exploiting resources and degrading them due to each person thinking their little waste, pollution doesn't matter is known as the 'The Tragedy of Commons'. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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