This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 163 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 163 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following activities will increase climate change? A) Using renewable energy resources such as wind or solar. B) Developing renewable energy. C) Protecting the Amazon rainforest from deforestation. D) Clearing land to build a parking lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clearing land to build a parking lot. 2. Which of the following is NOT a part of the carbon cycle? A) Transpiration. B) Photosynthesis. C) Respiration. D) Combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transpiration. 3. Heat being transferred by the direct contact of two surfaces is called A) Convection. B) Conduction. C) Radiation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conduction. 4. Which of the following has not resulted from urban sprawl? A) Suburbs. B) Overgrazing. C) Loss of farmland. D) Traffic congestion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overgrazing. 5. Which two kingdoms contain organisms that can use energy from the sun to make food? A) Protists and plants. B) Fungi and plants. C) Fungi and protists. D) Bacteria and animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protists and plants. 6. Organic litter made up of dead organisms, their parts, and waste A) Excess. B) Mucous. C) Detritus. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Detritus. 7. What is the most common gas in the atmosphere? A) Nitrogen. B) Oxygen. C) Water vapor. D) Carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen. 8. When it is not possible to conduct an experiment, scientists test their predictions by A) Examining correlations. B) Using a control. C) Testing for one variable. D) Remaining skeptical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Examining correlations. 9. The historic event that caused the most rapid increase in human population is known as A) The Agricultural Revolution. B) The Industrial Revolution. C) The American Revolution. D) The bubonic plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Industrial Revolution. 10. The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs). A) Observations conclusion. B) Data. C) Variables. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Data. 11. Latent heat release occurs when: A) Water vapor condenses into liquid. B) Water evaporates into the atmosphere. C) Ice melts into a liquid. D) It rains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water vapor condenses into liquid. 12. Which of the following statements is true of aquatic biomes? A) Freshwater and marine biomes are evenly distributed on Earth. B) Freshwater biomes are a vital source of drinking water. C) Freshwater biomes supply a greater portion of Earth's oxygen than marine biomes. D) Marine biomes include streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freshwater biomes are a vital source of drinking water. 13. What kind of energy is wind? A) Renewable. B) Non renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable. 14. The number of individuals per unit of area ..... A) Limiting factor. B) Carrying capacity. C) Population density. D) Density-dependent limiting factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population density. 15. The measure of energy released by the earthquake A) Magma. B) Magnitude. C) Radiation. D) Fault. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magnitude. 16. How does the Cap and Trade Program regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions? A) The state would set a cap on total greenhouse emissions, and many industries using natural gas, electricity, and energy products would be required to buy pollution permits (allowances) to cover their emissions. It is pay to pollute. B) Human activities such as burning fossil fuels for transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The state would set a cap on total greenhouse emissions, and many industries using natural gas, electricity, and energy products would be required to buy pollution permits (allowances) to cover their emissions. It is pay to pollute. 17. Plants in a cold biome such as the tundra will most likely have which adaptation? A) Have broad extended leaves. B) Seasonaly loose their leaves. C) Thin branches. D) Thin needle like leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thin needle like leaves. 18. Habitat fragmentation can destroy habitats and increase competition for resources. What is it? A) Cutting down all of the trees. B) Raising animals in zoos, then putting them back into nature. C) Many species becoming extinct quickly. D) The breaking up of habitats by building roads or cutting down trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The breaking up of habitats by building roads or cutting down trees. 19. It is the study of fossils and ancient life. A) Physiology. B) Paleontology. C) Physical Education. D) Archaeology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paleontology. 20. Process in which individuals that have favorable variations and are better adapted to their environment, survive and reproduce more successfully than those less well adapted (survival of the fittest) A) Evolution. B) Natural Selection. C) Artificial Selection. D) Resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural Selection. ← 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