Environmental Sciences Quiz 530 (20 MCQs)

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1. Mountains form at a ..... boundary.

Correct Answer: C) Convergent.

2. ..... involves efforts to influence an elected official into supporting a specific interest.

Correct Answer: A) Lobbying.

3. Which of the following is not a good habit?

Correct Answer: C) Swallowing the food without chewing it.

4. What is the name of the process by which plants make their own food?

Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis.

5. Water freezing and thawing in the cracks of rocks is a type of ..... that can create soil.

Correct Answer: C) Mechanical weathering.

6. Water molecules are attracted to each other because of

Correct Answer: D) Hydrogen bonding.

7. Which of this materials is renewable:

Correct Answer: B) Wood.

8. A super powerful greenhouse gas that traps up to 4 times more heat in Earth's atmosphere is:

Correct Answer: B) Methane.

9. The narrow layer around Earth's surface in which life can exist.

Correct Answer: A) Biosphere.

10. An extreme storm with spinning air

Correct Answer: A) Tornado.

11. What is the largest part of our body?

Correct Answer: B) Skin.

12. The liquid water on Earth

Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere.

13. Which of the following organelles is found ONLY in Plant Cells

Correct Answer: C) Chloroplast.

14. Anthropogenic climate change is a result of humans putting more ..... into the atmosphere.

Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse gases.

15. The ocean

Correct Answer: A) Convection.

16. An organism that makes its own food using sunlight is a

Correct Answer: A) Producer.

17. Which of the following "ecosystem services" do ecological systems provide to the environment?

Correct Answer: B) Purify water.

18. Air is not useful to us in many ways.

Correct Answer: B) False.

19. ..... is a variable that depends on the conditions set up in the experiment. Scientists have no control over it.

Correct Answer: B) Dependent variable.

20. The term "precipitation" means .....

Correct Answer: B) The rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the ground.