This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 582 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 582 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are greenhouse gases? A) Gases that cause climate change. B) Gases that emit green smoke. C) Gases that are used to make green colored glass. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gases that cause climate change. 2. Tectonic Plates exists at which layer of the Earth? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Cheese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust. 3. Biology A) Study of the ocean. B) Study of nonliving things. C) Study of living things. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study of living things. 4. What occurs because of the accumulation of heavy metals within water environments if the substance enters into the food chain? A) Overabundance of biomass. B) Hypertoxicity. C) Biomagnification. D) Bioaccumulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biomagnification. 5. Which of the following is NOT a goal of environmental science? A) Learn how life on Earth has survived and thrived. B) Understand how humans interact with the environment. C) Find ways to deal with environmental problems. D) Organize protests at landfills. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organize protests at landfills. 6. What is one way to lower the amount of nitrates in your tank? A) Do a partial water change. B) Add more fish. C) Remove fish. D) Lower the water temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do a partial water change. 7. Look at the vocab picture, "Pigment Chorophyll." What color is associated with living organisms that have chlorophyll? A) Green. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Tangerine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green. 8. The ..... is placed under special conditions with something extra or different. A) Constant variable. B) Independent variable. C) Experimental group. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Experimental group. 9. Who/What affects the environment? A) You. B) The person next to you. C) ME. D) Everyone and Everything. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everyone and Everything. 10. A biome is the same thing as an ecosystem. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 11. Environmental science applies to all of the following EXCEPT ..... A) How the natural world works. B) How much greenhouse gas is produced. C) How our environment affects us. D) How we affect our environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How much greenhouse gas is produced. 12. Which of the following do not produce air pollution? A) Burning of wood. B) Coal-fired power plants. C) Oil-fired power plants. D) Nuclear power plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nuclear power plants. 13. Water sticks well to many materials. What term relates to this property of water? A) Cohesion. B) Adhesion. C) Density. D) Surface tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adhesion. 14. If a country has a death rate of 30 and a birth rate of 45 the overall population rate is ..... A) Increasing. B) Staying the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increasing. 15. Which of these descriptions applies to the stratosphere, not the troposphere? A) The lowest level of the atmosphere. B) The ozone layer is found here. C) The layer of the atmosphere that humans and other living organisms reside in. D) Temperature quickly drops as you increase in altitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ozone layer is found here. 16. Which of the following consists a single living thing? A) Community. B) Population. C) Ecosystem. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organism. 17. Most of the air pollution results ..... the burning of fossil fuels, motor vehicles, factories, aircraft and rockets. A) In. B) To. C) On. D) From. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From. 18. Can soil characteristics determine what organisms will live in that area? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Which fossil fuel is liquid? A) Natural Gas. B) Methane. C) Petroleum. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petroleum. 20. What is another name for a watershed? A) Recharge zone. B) Drainage basin. C) Tributary. D) Aquifer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drainage basin. ← 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