This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 464 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 464 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Grass-covered land that animals can graze on A) Prairie. B) Pasture. C) Rangeland. D) Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rangeland. 2. Which of the following is an example of a tragedy of the commons? A) A forest fire kills a population of spruce trees. B) Flooding destroys a human village. C) Overfishing depletes the salmon populations. D) A pandemic caused by a virus outbreak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overfishing depletes the salmon populations. 3. What is an example of a non renewable resource? A) Wind. B) Water. C) Coal. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 4. Dams may be installed in rivers: A) To generate electricity. B) To control floods. C) To provide a water supply to industries and municipalities. D) All of these. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 5. Which type of air mass brings WARM and DRY weather? A) Maritime Polar (mP). B) Maritime Tropical (mT). C) Continental Polar (cP). D) Continental Tropical (cT). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continental Tropical (cT). 6. Different people have ..... abilities. A) Different. B) Touch. C) Sign language. D) Braille. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Different. 7. Which of these is an example of radiation A) Bacon on a heated skillet. B) Falling on a sidewalk. C) Sun heating up the sand. D) Putting a blanket on. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun heating up the sand. 8. After a volcanic eruption has covered an area with lava, which of the following is the most likely order of succession in the repopulation of the area? A) Lichens, grasses, shrubs, trees. B) Mosses, grasses, lichens, trees. C) Grasses, trees, mosses, lichens. D) Shrubs, grasses, trees, lichens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lichens, grasses, shrubs, trees. 9. In a food pyramid, the amount of energy that any level of organism receives decreases A) Up the pyramid. B) In all levels. C) Down the pyramid. D) Across the pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Up the pyramid. 10. The fox in this food web would be considered a: A) Tertiary Consumer. B) Producer. C) Secondary Consumer. D) Primary Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tertiary Consumer. 11. Read the statement below and answer if it is a positive or negative feedback loop?As Earth warms, organic matter in soil is decomposed faster:* More carbon dioxide is released * Enhanced greenhouse effect occurs * Earth warms further A) Positive feedback loop. B) Negative feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive feedback loop. 12. What are the four layers of a tropical rain forest? A) Top, bottom, middle. B) Emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor. C) Up super high, high, middle, low. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor. 13. The routine an organism goes through that includes both living and non-living parts of an ecosystem that determines an organisms role in the habitat. A) Niche. B) Habitat. C) Organism. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niche. 14. Examples are tomato plants and oak trees A) Fungi. B) Plantae. C) Protista. D) The animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plantae. 15. What are micro-plastics? A) Small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. B) Small plastic pieces less than five centimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. C) Small plastic pieces less than five metres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. D) Small plastic pieces less than five kilometres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. 16. The average temperature of earth is rising. A) True. B) False. C) I don't know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. One of the following sciences is not contributing with the environmental science? A) Geology. B) Physics. C) Chemistry. D) Zoology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physics. 18. Ecologists tend to divide the photic zone of lakes and ponds based on distance from the A) Bottom. B) Surface. C) Shore. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surface. 19. Put directly into the air by human activities A) Secondary pollution. B) Smog. C) Primary pollution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary pollution. 20. Which of the following are abiotic factors that shape ecosystems? A) Worms, plants and temperature. B) Wind, precipitation, and soil type. C) Niches, trees, and bacteria. D) Sunlight, mushrooms, and wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sunlight, mushrooms, and wind. ← 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