This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 651 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 651 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following lists the steps an igneous rock undergoes in order to become a sedimentary rock, in the correct order? A) Deposition, erosion, melting, cooling. B) Erosion, weathering, eruption, cooling. C) Dissolving, deposition, cooling, fracture. D) Weathering, erosion, deposition, cementation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weathering, erosion, deposition, cementation. 2. Water pollution can be caused by ALL the following EXCEPT A) Oil spills. B) Rain. C) Urban runoff. D) Air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain. 3. Peer scientists reviewing Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because A) His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion. B) He did not explain how continents move and what moves them. C) His evidence was not clear in showing how continents were joined. D) He lied by including false evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He did not explain how continents move and what moves them. 4. The raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans A) Agriculture. B) Industry. C) Biology. D) Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agriculture. 5. In an appropriately designed experiment, a scientist is able to test the effect of A) A single variable. B) Multiple variables. C) The hypothesis. D) Scientific observations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A single variable. 6. What type of succession would occur after a flood and or earthquake? A) Forest succession. B) Secondary succession. C) Primary succession. D) Old-field succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary succession. 7. A is the prefix that means ..... A) Life. B) Living. C) Not/ without. D) Biotic factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not/ without. 8. ..... economics agrees that economies are unsustainable if resource use is not made more efficient. A) Environmental. B) Political. C) Micro. D) Behavioral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental. 9. What is bitumen? A) It is a type of coal, with dark shiny bits of organic matter. B) It is a deep shale-oil deposit mixed with natural gas. C) It a thick, sticky, tar-like heavy oil with a high sulfur content. D) It is an octane-raising gasoline additive that causes pollution. E) It is the solid organic matter found in petroleum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It a thick, sticky, tar-like heavy oil with a high sulfur content. 10. At this nuclear accident a valve accidentally shut and stopped feed water from cooling the reactor core. A) Chernobyl. B) Fukushima. C) Three mile Island. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three mile Island. 11. What is moving from one place to another? A) Growth rate. B) Migration. C) Population. D) ZPG. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migration. 12. Which mineral has the distinctive property of reactivity to acid? A) Calcite. B) Magnetite. C) Sulfur. D) Fluorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcite. 13. Oxide In industry, X is used as a wood pulp bleaching agent and to produce sulfuric acid. The formula for X is A) Ill. B) Storm. C) He felt. D) Ill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ill. 14. Thermal energy ALWAYS moves from ..... to ..... A) Solid to liquid. B) Ice to water. C) Hot to cold. D) Solid to gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot to cold. 15. A habitat is a A) Job or role that an organism performs in the ecosystem. B) Home for a living organism. C) Relationship where both parties derive benefit. D) Relationship where one party benefits and the other is harmed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Home for a living organism. 16. Changes in ..... take place slowly over a much long duration. A) Weather. B) Climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 17. A shift from energy sources, such as animal muscle and running water to fossil fuels, such as coal and oil. A) Industrial Revolution. B) Agricultural Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrial Revolution. 18. This variable is the data that is collected during the experiment. It is what is measured. If the independent variable is the cause, this is the effect. A) Independent variable. B) Dependent variable. C) Control group. D) Data group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent variable. 19. The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle A) Lithosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Mantle. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 20. When experiments are impossible or unethical predictions are tested by looking at ..... A) Correlations. B) Curiosity. C) Youtube. D) Maps. 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