This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 649 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 649 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What could be a scientific solution to the problems of depletion of forest. A) A. Stop burning or cutting down biologically diverse forest and to allow nature to replenish them. B) A. Do not support the logging / lumber industry. C) Enact and enforce laws and regulations on cutting matured trees. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Stop burning or cutting down biologically diverse forest and to allow nature to replenish them. 2. All of the following about the nitrogen cycle are true except A) Nitrogen moves back and forth between the atmosphere and living things. B) Plants fix nitrogen on their own in their roots. C) Animals get nitrogen by eating plants or other animals. D) Decomposers break down waste and yield ammonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plants fix nitrogen on their own in their roots. 3. Is a Cat considered abiotic or biotic? A) Abiotic. B) Biotic. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic. 4. Which of the following is the approximate efficiency of energy transfer through the food chain? A) 1%. B) 10%. C) 24%. D) 30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10%. 5. Which type of ecosystem has zebras and giraffes? A) Desert. B) Estuary. C) Boreal Forest. D) Tropical Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tropical Savanna. 6. The Clean Air Act is federal law that regulates levels of air pollution produced from A) Transportation and factories. B) Private homes only. C) Power plants only. D) Transportation, factories, power plants, and private homes HIDE ANSWER. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transportation, factories, power plants, and private homes HIDE ANSWER. 7. The use of non-living resources, wildlife, forests, water, etc in a manner that maintains and protects them for the common good is? A) Renewable resource. B) Natural resource. C) Conservation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conservation. 8. Highly industrialized countries with high incomes and high standards of living A) Renewable resource. B) Ecological footprint. C) Europe. D) Developed countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Developed countries. 9. Which of the following statements is NOT true of consumenrs? A) The get energy indirectly from the sun. B) They are also called heterotrophs. C) They make their own food. D) They sometimes eat other consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They make their own food. 10. What constantly circles around plants, animals, and the atmosphere? A) Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen. B) Nemo. C) Atmosphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen. 11. Smog and other forms of pollution from urban cities can help create more carbon dioxide as well as global warming and, in turn, affect rural areas that rely on energy resources for their crops and farmland ..... also increases the concentration of carbon dioxide which scientists believe is helping increase atmospheric temperatures worldwide. A) Plants. B) Deforestation. C) Crop rotation. D) Acid precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deforestation. 12. If a population has a growth rate of 0%, does the population increase, decrease, or stay the same? A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stay the same. 13. The earth receives the energy from the sun by A) Radiation. B) Convection. C) Conduction. D) Sublimation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radiation. 14. A drawback to solar energy is that the sun sometimes ..... A) Produce sun spots. B) Cause skin cancer. C) Is sometimes under cloud cover. D) Is dominated by wind energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is sometimes under cloud cover. 15. What type of interaction is indicated by the following description:Anemone protects clownfish and clownfish provides food for the anemone. A) Mutualism. B) Competition. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutualism. 16. What does vegetation store?! A) Oxygen. B) Aluminum. C) Oil. D) Carbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon. 17. Students took a test after they had studied either in silence or with the television turned on. What is the dependent variable? A) Subject studied. B) Test scores. C) Silence. D) The type of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Test scores. 18. Which of the following impact biomes by creating conditions suitable for specified varieties of plants? A) Climates. B) Seasons. C) Water availability. D) Soil Characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soil Characteristics. 19. Human activities:habitat loss:; ..... : ..... A) Deforestation:landslides. B) Volcanoes:mineral sources. C) Mangroves:protects shorelines. D) Floods:climate change. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deforestation:landslides. 20. What are the steps of the scientific method in the correct order? A) Prediction, hypothesis, experiment, observations, conclusion. B) Imagining, observing, experimenting, hypothesis. C) Experiment, prediction, hypothesis, observation. D) Observation, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observation, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, conclusion. ← 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