This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 92 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which period in time impacted the environment with deforestation?Deforestation is the action of clearing a wide area of trees. A) Hunter-gatherer period. B) Agricultural revolution. C) Industrial revolution. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agricultural revolution. 2. What is a way hunter gatherers affected their environment? A) Introduced new farming practices. B) Killed Animals. C) Changed Landscape. D) Killed Animals and Changed Landscape. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Killed Animals and Changed Landscape. 3. What type of system is Earth? A) Layered. B) Related. C) Compressed. D) Integrated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Integrated. 4. Mr. Varner brings in his famous home made cookies to share with the class. He hands the plate to students in the first row and tells everyone they can take as much as they want, and then pass the plate along ..... however by the time the plate makes it to you, all of the cookies have been taken. This is an example of ..... A) Predator vs prey relationship. B) Overpopulation. C) Tragedy of the commons. D) Why I don't like my classmates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy of the commons. 5. Which of the following terms includes all of the others? A) Natural capital. B) Natural resources. C) Natural services. D) Natural cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural services. 6. What is an example of a nonrenewable resource? A) Water. B) Trees. C) Paper. D) Fossil Fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil Fuels. 7. Which is a consequence of an increase in greenhouse gases? A) Ice caps freezing. B) Global cooling. C) Sea levels rising. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sea levels rising. 8. The conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas is called what? A) Nitrification. B) Renitrification. C) Denitrification. D) Unnitrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denitrification. 9. The primary source of radon is A) Electronics. B) Indoor fires. C) Household chemical fumes. D) Rocks and soils. E) Construction materials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rocks and soils. 10. An important effect that hunter-gatherer societies may have had on the environment was A) Soil erosion. B) Extinction. C) Air pollution. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 11. Which of the following statements BEST describes nuclear fusion? A) Nuclear fusion is a common source of energy. B) Nuclear fusion usually requires freezing temperatures. C) Nuclear fusion usually requires a high-temperature environment. D) Nuclear fusion releases a small amount of energy compared to mostchemical reactions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuclear fusion usually requires a high-temperature environment. 12. Cutting down, burning, or polluting the forests cause: ..... A) Wind speed. B) Deforestation. C) Pressure. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deforestation. 13. Oil is? A) Renewable energy. B) Non-renewable energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-renewable energy. 14. Sprawl affects which of the following? A) Pollution. B) Public health. C) Economics. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. As a result of climate change food prices could A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increase. 16. Volatile organic compounds A) Are tiny particles of liquid or solid matterr. B) Are produced by chemical interactions between sulfur and oxygen. C) Arean odorless colorless poisonous gas. D) Are organic chemicals that form toxic fumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are organic chemicals that form toxic fumes. 17. One of the uses of biomass in a ..... country is to burn wood for heating and cooking. A) Developed. B) Developing. C) First world. D) Industrialized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Developing. 18. Water pollution that comes from a single source is considered ..... A) Point source pollution. B) Nonpoint source pollution. C) Thermal pollution. D) Ocean pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point source pollution. 19. Between what years was the Baby Boomer generation born? A) 1980-1995. B) 1900-1920. C) 2000-2010. D) 1946-1964. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1946-1964. 20. What is the scientific method? A) A systematic procedure for how to conduct a scientific experiment. B) The process of solving a problem. C) A way of making non-scientific observations. D) A way to summarize findings from multiple investigations. 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