This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 629 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 629 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Parking lots should be placed A) In front of buildings for easy access by humans. B) All around a town for people to easily find spots. C) Behind buildings to increase aesthetic value. D) On the other side of rivers to encourage people to walk into twon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behind buildings to increase aesthetic value. 2. To help us understand pressing problems of resource supply, ecosystem stability, and sustainable living A) Environmental science. B) Science and technology. C) Social science. D) Business science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental science. 3. The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock into fragments called sediments. A) Deposition. B) Erosion. C) Weathering. D) Igneous Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering. 4. The deciduous forest layer that gets the least sunlight is the A) Understory. B) Canopy. C) Forest floor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forest floor. 5. Ryan is working on his Science Fair project. He plans to measure the amount of rainfall that has fallen in his neighborhood over the past two weeks. What instrument should he use? A) Rain gauge. B) Wind Vane. C) Barometer. D) Thermometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rain gauge. 6. Surface tension of water is the cohesive force between water molecule and other molecule. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. Saltwater and Oceans account for ..... of the planet's water content. A) 0.5%. B) 3.5%. C) 25%. D) 97.5%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 97.5%. 8. Why do we measure the concentration of dissolved substances such as dissolved oxygen, chlorides, and nitrates in an ecosystem? A) To predict earthquakes. B) To determine air quality. C) To assess water quality and ecosystem health. D) To monitor solar radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To assess water quality and ecosystem health. 9. What do we call bacteria or a virus that can cause a disease? A) Endemic species. B) Pathogen. C) Pioneer species. D) A Eukaryote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathogen. 10. Gradual, natural change in an ecosystem over time: A) Succession. B) Movement. C) Evolution. D) Change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Succession. 11. What is an essential characteristic that indicates whether a resource should be categorized as renewable? A) It must be an energy resource. B) It must be a biological resource. C) It must be recyclable. D) It must have the capacity to be replenished in a short time period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It must have the capacity to be replenished in a short time period. 12. A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon. A) Atmosphere. B) Cyanobacteria. C) Ozone layer. D) Greenhouse effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere. 13. As ocean temperatures rise, what is happening to glaciers and ice caps? A) They are getting larger. B) They are becoming more dense. C) They are melting. D) They are moving south. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are melting. 14. A timber stand improvement plan guides a landowner who A) Wants to keep their forest as a natural area. B) Wants to cut some of their trees every few years as they mature. C) Wants to improve the quality of their woodland. D) Wants to make a forest where there currently isn't one. E) Wants to make sure that their forest is protected from fire, insects, grazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wants to improve the quality of their woodland. 15. Fracking is a mining technology used to extract ..... from ..... rocks A) Natural Gas, Shale. B) Coal, Slate. C) Natural Gas, Granite. D) Coal, Gneiss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural Gas, Shale. 16. What two things can happen when energy from the Sun interacts with the ground? A) Absorbed & reflected. B) Absorbed & refracted. C) Absorbed and transmitted. D) Reflected & refracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absorbed & reflected. 17. Paper is an example of which type of waste? A) Municipal solid waste. B) Industrial waste. C) Hazardous waste. D) Wastewater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Municipal solid waste. 18. For consumers, which of the following is a disadvantage of green taxes on businesses? A) Increase in technology upgrades. B) Decrease in technology upgrades. C) Increase in product prices. D) Decrease in product prices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase in product prices. 19. Earth's hydrosphere consists of liquid water only A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Provide 2 examples of Abiotic Components. A) Coal, humans. B) Water, oxygen. C) Rabbit, fox. D) Sunlight, plants. 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