This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 63 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 63 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the constant variables? A) What we are changing or testing. B) What we are observing or measuring. C) What we keep the same to make the experiment fair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What we keep the same to make the experiment fair. 2. "Freshwater ecosystems are some of the largest ecosystems on earth"', A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Aquaponics is important to the future of food production because it allows a grower to produce a large quantity of food in a small space using minimal resources. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. The process of fusion happens in a star's A) Corona. B) Convection Zone. C) Radiative Zone. D) Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Core. 5. Which UNESCO World Heritage Site is known for its unique wetland ecosystem and diverse wildlife? A) Okavango Delta. B) Machu Picchu Pell. C) Angkor Wat. D) The Great Smoky Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Okavango Delta. 6. The following are advantages of which type of energy? Ideal for mobile combustion engines Quick ignition/ turn-off capability Cleaner-burning than coal A) Petroleum. B) Coal. C) Natural Gas. D) Nuclear Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petroleum. 7. Jay has 3 green marbles, 4 red skittles, and 5 twix. What is the species richness? A) 3. B) 12. C) 1.5. D) 0.50. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 8. A large area of cropland seeded with one crop is a(n) A) Monoculture. B) Polyculture. C) Organic practice. D) Traditional farming technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monoculture. 9. These are lakes in mountain regions with clear water and few nutrients. A) Estuarine. B) Oligotrophic. C) Eutrophic. D) Marine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oligotrophic. 10. Most of earth's water is A) Salt water. B) Freshwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salt water. 11. A mineral that breaks cleanly over a smooth plane is considered ..... A) Point. B) Fracture. C) Breakage. D) Cleavage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleavage. 12. Which of the following is not a part of the peer review process? A) Peers checking for possible inaccurate conclusions. B) Sharing conclusions with peers. C) Peers checking the experimental procedures for flaws. D) Peers analyzing the possible ethical impacts of the conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peers analyzing the possible ethical impacts of the conclusions. 13. Which of the following are 3 types of living things? A) Consumers, decomposers, and dirt. B) Consumers, producers, and decomposers. C) Water, sunlight, soil. D) Sunlight, plants, animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumers, producers, and decomposers. 14. To survive hunter-gatherers changed their environment by A) Burning the prairies to prevent trees from growing. B) Spreading plants to areas beyond where they originally grow. C) Neither of these. D) Both of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both of these. 15. A warm period occurring from AD 900 to AD 1100 A) Warm front of the 1st century. B) Medieval global warming. C) Viking Warming. D) Medieval Climate Optimum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medieval Climate Optimum. 16. The actions of government, producer or consumers will always have effects that are unintended or unanticipated. A) Endangered species act. B) Newton's law. C) Law of unintended consequences. D) Resource conservation and recovery act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of unintended consequences. 17. Geothermal A) Renewable Resource. B) Nonrenewable Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable Resource. 18. What do the leaves of a plant do? A) They make the food for the plant. B) They take in the water from the ground. C) They transport water to the other parts of the plants. D) They support the plant upright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They make the food for the plant. 19. Observation or inference? The folder is sitting on the desk because someone didn't want it. A) Observation. B) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inference. 20. Information gathered during an experiment A) Value. B) Risk. C) Data. D) Experiment. E) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. ← 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