This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following factors could prolong the availability of fossil fuels? A) Making new fossil fuels. B) Increasing demand for fossil fuels. C) Increasing alternative energy sources. D) Reducing alternative energy sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increasing alternative energy sources. 2. What is overfishing? A) The removal of a bad fish from an environment?. B) The removal of a dead fish from a body of water. C) The over-breeding of fish. D) The removal of a fish species from a body of water at rate faster than the species can repopulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The removal of a fish species from a body of water at rate faster than the species can repopulate. 3. What are pucca houses made from A) Stones, bricks, cement, steel. B) Stones, bricks, mud, straws. C) Either a or b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stones, bricks, cement, steel. 4. Performing a test or experiment allows you to test your ..... A) Conclusions. B) Hypothesis. C) Data. D) Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 5. When large mines are dug in the ground, the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere may be subject to changes from: A) Pollution. B) Vegetation. C) Changes in water flow. D) All of these choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these choices are correct. 6. Environmental science has several goals:▪ Understand the ..... environment. A) Artificial. B) Man-made. C) Natural. D) Unnatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural. 7. Solar energy is a ..... resource. A) Nonrenewable. B) Renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 8. Made of skeletons of small animals A) Sargasso sea. B) Interitidal area. C) Estuary. D) Coral reefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coral reefs. 9. Which does NOT cause acid rain? A) Erupting volcanoes. B) Burning fossil fuels-coal, oil, gas. C) Electric cars. D) Car engines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electric cars. 10. A nutrient whose supply limits productivity A) Nitrogen fixation. B) Abiotic factors. C) Biotic factor. D) Limiting nutrient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limiting nutrient. 11. What is the term for an land above an aquifer. A) River system. B) Recharge zone. C) Aquifer. D) Watershed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recharge zone. 12. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field of study. This means that ..... A) It is limited to only one branch of science; ecology. B) Each environmental issue is specific to only one type of science. C) Multiple branches of science only (biology, chemistry, etc) are covered. D) Many science and non-science fields of study, such as economics and politics, are included. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many science and non-science fields of study, such as economics and politics, are included. 13. Which of the following is correct scientific notation? A) 20.35 x 104. B) .2035 x 104. C) 2035 4. D) 2.035 x104. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2.035 x104. 14. A type of relationship in which one species benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed is known as: A) Mutualism. B) Altruism. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 15. Mg =..... g A) 0.2804. B) 2.804. C) 28.04. D) 280.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2.804. 16. The major human causes of extinction today are A) Hunting and destroying habitats. B) Polluting and introducing non-native species. C) Both (a) and (b). D) Neither (a) nor (b. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (a) and (b). 17. Interactions in an ecosystem result from thetransfer of matter and energy from producers toconsumers and eventually to decomposers. What are the forms of energy transfer from #1 to #4? A) Chemical energy to chemical energy. B) Light energy to chemical energy. C) Chemical energy to heat energy. D) Heat energy to mechanical energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light energy to chemical energy. 18. The process of excessive nutrients runoff into waterways can cause ..... A) Global Warming. B) Eutrophication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eutrophication. 19. The color of leaf is green due to the presence of A) Mehndi. B) Odour. C) Leaf blade. D) Chlorophyll. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chlorophyll. 20. What is the best measurement to use when determining the width of a human hair? A) Micrometer. B) Centimeter. C) Meter. D) Millimeter. 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