This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 72 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 72 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called A) Evaporation. B) Condensation. C) The greenhouse effect. D) Radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The greenhouse effect. 2. What symbiotic relationship is seen in the picture below with lichens growing and feeding on a tree and the tree not being harmed or receiving a benefit. A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 3. This is an accumulation of salt in the topsoil A) Waterlogging. B) Salinization. C) Saltification. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salinization. 4. What type of sediment tends to be the most impermeable? A) Sand. B) Clay. C) Silt. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clay. 5. What is the global warming potential of F-gasses compared to CO2? A) 1, 000 times greater. B) 5, 000 times greater. C) 10, 000 times greater. D) 23, 000 times greater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 23, 000 times greater. 6. Which central Asian body of water has shrunk drastically as a result of irrigation? A) The Aral Sea. B) The Dead Sea. C) The Red Sea. D) The Salton Sea. E) The Black Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Aral Sea. 7. Ecosystem services are services that are supplied by a healthy ecosystem for free to help and support human life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Humans have the ability to cause temperature change. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Lands managed by agencies of the government A) National Parks. B) National Rivers. C) Public Lands. D) Restricted-use Lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public Lands. 10. In an Ecological Pyramid, which of the following would be at the bottom? A) Producers. B) Primary Consumers. C) Secondary Consumers. D) Tertiary Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producers. 11. The majority of earth's surface is covered by what? A) Land. B) Salt water. C) Fresh water. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salt water. 12. Boundary between warm and cold water in an ocean or a lake A) Fault. B) Ozone. C) Tetonic plates. D) Surface currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tetonic plates. 13. What are some factors that can decrease a population's size? A) Immigration and births. B) Emigration and deaths. C) Clumped populations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emigration and deaths. 14. What is the main source of energy for all organisms except those living deep in the ocean? A) Consumers. B) Photosynthesis. C) Cellular respiration. D) The sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sun. 15. Meteors burn up in this layer A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mesosphere. 16. Mr. S. sets up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. Identify the dependent variable. A) Height of the ramp. B) Distance traveled by the ball. C) Mass of the ball. D) Weight of the ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distance traveled by the ball. 17. The movement of matter due to differences in density that are caused by temperature variations. A) Continental Drift. B) Mantle. C) Convection. D) Plate Boundary. E) Rock Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection. 18. Shivering in response to being cold is an example of A) Negative feedback loop. B) Positive feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative feedback loop. 19. What do we call the natural surroundings in which plants and animals live? A) Nature. B) Creature. C) Human. D) Machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 20. Rainwater harvesting was introduced in India in this State A) Tamil Nadu. B) Rajasthan. C) Madhya Pradesh. D) Andhra Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andhra Pradesh. ← 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