This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Earth > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 94 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 94 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is true about the lithospheric plates? A) They constantly move. B) They move annually. C) They move occasionally. D) They never move. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They constantly move. 2. A thermostat in a central heating system can determine the temperature of your living room. It switches the air conditioner on when the temperature increases to a predetermined level and shuts it off when it cools to another level. The room temperature remains within a comfortable level regardless of the temperature outside A) Positive Feedback. B) Negative Feedback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative Feedback. 3. Which is true of air pollution and human health? A) Years of research link air pollution to lung diseases, birth defects, and cancer. B) Air pollution is commonly listed as a cause of death. C) None of the health effects of air pollution are reversible. D) Healthy adults are most affected by air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Years of research link air pollution to lung diseases, birth defects, and cancer. 4. Which is more likely to have higher temperatures due to the urban heat island effect? A) City (downtown). B) Rural area. C) Residential. D) Commercial area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City (downtown). 5. Which spheres are most affected when snow melts into the ground creating mud? A) Hydrosphere and atmosphere. B) Biosphere and geosphere. C) Geosphere and hydrosphere. D) Atmosphere and biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geosphere and hydrosphere. 6. What does conserving resources mean? A) Use as much of the resources as you can. B) Only use the resources at school. C) Protecting the resource so it does not run out. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protecting the resource so it does not run out. 7. WHICH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT REFERS TO AS "GREED GAME POLITICAL POPULISM" BY THE ENVIRONMENTALIST A) Narmada Bachao Andolan. B) Save forest movement. C) Bishnoi Movement. D) SILENT VALLEY MOVEMENT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Save forest movement. 8. SOIL LAYERS ARE CALLED ..... A) MATERIALS. B) ORGANIC. C) HUMUS. D) HORIZONS. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) HORIZONS. 9. Science begins with what? A) An idea. B) An observation. C) Nothing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An observation. 10. Where do organisms obtain the energy they need? A) Biosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biosphere. 11. The solid layer of rock beneath soil and other loose materials A) Horizon. B) A horizon. C) Bedrock. D) Water table. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bedrock. 12. The energy in most ecosystems originally comes from A) Green plants. B) Wind. C) The sun. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sun. 13. Only about ..... of the energy that an organism consumes is stored and transferred when that organism is eaten. A) 10%. B) 25%. C) 3%. D) 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10%. 14. Which type of succession would occur after a volcanic eruption, destroying all soil? A) Primary Succession. B) Secondary Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary Succession. 15. A resource that can restore or renew itself (unless badly mismanaged) or can be used over and over is called a: A) Renewable resource. B) Non-renewable resource. C) Perpetual resource. D) Indestructible resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable resource. 16. The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary A) Divergent. B) Convergent. C) Reform. D) Transform. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent. 17. Transformation of water from liquid to gas. A) Precipitation. B) Evaporation. C) Condensation. D) Sublimation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaporation. 18. Select true or false:The main ingredient of natural gas is Water A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. It refers to the inundation of land by river water A) Flood. B) River. C) Slide. D) Rainfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flood. 20. If porosity is low then permeability is ..... A) Low. B) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low. ← 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