This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 103 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 103 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A branch of philosophy that involves the study of behavior-good vs. bad, right vs. wrong. A) Ethics. B) Data. C) Peer review. D) Theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethics. 2. What do consumers use for their energy source? A) Oxygen. B) Glucose. C) Sunlight. D) Stomata. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glucose. 3. In photosynthesis, plants use ..... to make ..... A) Sugar and CO2; oxygen. B) Water, sun, and CO2; oxygen and sugar. C) Nitrogen and water; CO2 and sugar. D) Water and minerals; sugar and oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water, sun, and CO2; oxygen and sugar. 4. A wetland is an example of a(n) ..... ecosystem. A) Flowing. B) Standing. C) Terrestrial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Standing. 5. Where we live. A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 6. The scientific study of patterns of disease in a population. A) Epidemiology. B) Public health. C) Malpractice. D) Health fraud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epidemiology. 7. Using a resource in ways that maintain the resource at a certain quality for a certain period of time is called A) Resource conservation. B) Land reclamation. C) Sustainable use. D) Ecological use. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainable use. 8. The leading renewable energy resource that is used to produce electricity in the world today is ..... A) Tidal power. B) Hydropower. C) Wind power. D) Biomass. E) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydropower. 9. The first Earth Day was made possible by modern environmentalists. Who started this movement? A) Rachel Carson. B) Roosevelt. C) Pinchot. D) George Perkins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rachel Carson. 10. The average temperature on Earth has increased in the last century. Which reason best explains this rise in temperature? A) More nitrogen in the atmosphere. B) More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. C) Less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. D) Less nitrogen in the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 11. Particles in the air that are small enough to breathe in to the lungs A) Dose. B) Dose-response curve. C) Epidemiology. D) Particulates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Particulates. 12. What is the end result of eutrophication? A) More algae. B) Decreased oxygen and fish kills. C) Less turbidity. D) A new pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreased oxygen and fish kills. 13. While hiking up a steep trail in the Adironack Mountains of New York State, a hiker first passes through a deciduous forest and then through an area of evergreen trees.The transition from one biome to another along trail is most similar to the transition of biomes that occurs with increasing ..... A) Latitude. B) Sunlight. C) Temperature. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latitude. 14. Human activity adds CO2 to the atmosphere through all of these EXCEPT A) Clear cutting/deforestation. B) Transportation with gas powered vehicles. C) Burning biomass. D) Agricultural runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agricultural runoff. 15. The boundary represented by $\rightarrow$ < ..... A) Divergent plate boundary. B) Convergent plate boundary. C) Transform plate boundary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergent plate boundary. 16. Oxygen is the main greenhouse gas. A) True. B) False. C) Maybe, kinda, sort of. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Which two terrestrial biomes receive the least amount of precipitation? A) Tundra and taiga. B) Tundra and desert. C) Desert and taiga. D) Desert and grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra and desert. 18. How do caves form? A) It is formed by light. B) It is normally formed by weathering or erosion. C) It is normally formed by cloud. D) It is formed by fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is normally formed by weathering or erosion. 19. Currents at the surface of the ocean are driven A) Tectonic plates. B) Salinity. C) Wind. D) Gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wind. 20. Why do we need to recycle? A) Recycling puts money in my pocket. B) Recycling reduces waste that is burned or buried in landfills. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling reduces waste that is burned or buried in landfills. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 9Environmental Sciences Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books