This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 498 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 498 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define a community A) An individual living thing. B) Multiple individuals of the same species living together. C) Multiple populations of different species living together. D) A community of organisms interacting with the physical environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multiple populations of different species living together. 2. National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 A) Executive Order 318. B) RA 7586. C) RA 9147. D) PD 705. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) RA 7586. 3. Butterflies obtain nectar, a food source, from flowers. When they fly from one flower to another, they disperse pollen. Which type of interaction do the butterflies and flowers have? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 4. Does not belong in the field of Natural Sciences. A) Biology. B) Chemistry. C) Earth science. D) Sociology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sociology. 5. How much energy is LOST from each level moving up the energy pyramid? A) 10%. B) 30%. C) 70%. D) 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 90%. 6. A group of the same species of organism living in the same place A) Hang out. B) Pod. C) Density. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 7. Which answer best describes a decomposer? A) An organism that produces oxygen and is eaten by others. B) An organism that is dead and decomposing. C) An organism that gets energy by eating meat. D) An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An organism that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms. 8. Liquid to Solid A) Freezing. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freezing. 9. A relationship between two species where one species benefits while the other is not affected at all it is called A) Neutralism. B) Commensalism. C) Mutualism. D) Ammensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commensalism. 10. Our ecological footprint is affected by the number of people on Earth and how much we ..... A) Sustain. B) Review. C) Consume. D) Save. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consume. 11. This layer of Earth is the thickest part A) Crust. B) Outer core. C) Mantle. D) Inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle. 12. What is the original example of the "commons" ? A) Grazing animals in a pasture. B) Deer drinking from a river. C) Trees being cut to build boats. D) People fishing from the same pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grazing animals in a pasture. 13. What happens to the air pressure the higher up in space you go? A) The air pressure increases. B) The air pressure decreases. C) The air pressure stays the same. D) There is no air pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The air pressure decreases. 14. Which term describes resources that cannot be easily replaced once they are used? A) Sustainable. B) Renewable. C) Non-renewable. D) Abundant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-renewable. 15. Which of the following mean '' members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time" ? A) Ecosystem. B) Community. C) Organism. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Population. 16. After a severe drought, the productivity in an ecosystem took many years to return to pre-drought conditions. This observation indicates that the ecosystem has A) High resilience. B) Low resilience. C) High resistance. D) Low resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low resilience. 17. Why do leaves change color in the fall? A) The leaves are tired of being green. B) The leaves begin producing a different pigment to seem more attractive. C) Chlorophyll slowly stops being produced, allowing other colors to show through. D) To help birds find their way southward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chlorophyll slowly stops being produced, allowing other colors to show through. 18. Baba Amte is the name associated with- A) Chipko Movement. B) Narmada Bachao Andolan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narmada Bachao Andolan. 19. Martha is curious as to what happened to the dinosaurs. She is convinced that a virus spread across the earth and killed all the dinosaurs. Martha's idea is called a ..... A) Hypothesis. B) Theory. C) Law. D) Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis. 20. Survival of the fittest A) Mutation. B) Adaptation. C) Evolution. D) Natural Selection. 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