This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 518 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 518 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is an dependent variable? A) What a scientist changes in an experiment to test their hypothesis. B) What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change. C) What happens when you do an experiment. D) What you keep the same throughout all experimental groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What scientist measure to see if it responded to a change. 2. The Aurora Borealis occurs in the A) Troposhere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermosphere. 3. Where is the majority of fresh water on Earth found? A) The ocean. B) Lakes. C) Rivers. D) Ice caps and glaciers. E) Underground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ice caps and glaciers. 4. Are the batteries disposed of? A) Probably. B) False. C) Idk. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. What causes surface currents to sink? A) Decrease in temperature and decrease in salinity leading to increased density. B) Decrease in temperature and increase in salinity leading to increased density. C) Increase in temperature and decrease in salinity leading to increased density. D) Increase in temperature and increase in salinity leading to increased density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decrease in temperature and increase in salinity leading to increased density. 6. What is natural gas used for in the United States? A) Vehicle fuel. B) Pipe line fuel. C) Electrical power production. D) Commercial use. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electrical power production. 7. The majority of the scientific community disagrees with the conclusion that global climate change is due to human actions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. An organism that cannot create its own energy and must instead rely on consuming nutrients from other organisms. A) Fermentation. B) Photosynthesis. C) Heterotroph. D) Autotroph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heterotroph. 9. Usually hot, sometimes cold, but always dry A) Tundra. B) Desert. C) TDF. D) Grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 10. Surface water becomes groundwater when it A) Moves below the water table. B) Condenses to form drops of liquid water. C) Percolates into the recharge zone. D) Flows onto the ground through a spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Percolates into the recharge zone. 11. The thinnest layer of Earth is the A) Inner Core. B) Mantle. C) Crust. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust. 12. Why does groundwater usually require less treatment than surface water? A) The layers of Earth protect groundwater from pollutants. B) As groundwater sinks into the ground, the layers of rock act like a natural filter and remove pollutants from the water. C) Surface water has more exposure to pollutants in runoff and the atmosphere. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Plants interact with living and nonliving components in their environment. Which is an interaction with a nonliving element? A) Small insects eating the stems of the plants. B) Humans breathing oxygen released by plants. C) Bees gathering pollen from flowers of plants. D) Sandy soil holding the roots of the plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sandy soil holding the roots of the plants. 14. How did the agricultural revolution affect the environment? A) Over hunting animals. B) Replaced all the lands with farmland. C) Improve the quality of life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replaced all the lands with farmland. 15. Mobile organisms are able to choose where they live, under process called habitat selection A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. ..... is a process used to solve problems of develop an understanding of nature that involves testing possible answers. A) Hypothesis. B) Science. C) Experiments. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Science. 17. Though CFC production has been curtailed, the threat to upper atmospheric ozone continues because CFCs A) Become harmless quickly. B) Destroy ozone for only a short time. C) Persist but stop destroying ozone. D) Persist and continue to destroy ozone for decades. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persist and continue to destroy ozone for decades. 18. Disease is any departure from health, a particular destructive process in an organ or organism with a specific cause and signs A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. In the town of Podunk, Alabama the population at the beginning of the year was 4882. If 27 babies were born in that given year, what is the birth rate? Births/Pop = then x 1000 = Birth Rate A) 7.66. B) 9.22. C) 5.53. D) 2.78. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5.53. 20. What is the theorized force that moves the plates? A) Subduction. B) Sea Floor Spreading. C) Convection. D) Mid Ocean Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection. ← 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