This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 234 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 234 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What role do natural resources play in socio-economic development? A) Is a resource factor. B) It is a cumulative factor. C) Is a motivating factor. D) All three options above are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All three options above are correct. 2. A sudden increase in the number of producers in an ecosystem would first A) Carnivores. B) Herbivores. C) No one. D) Saprophytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivores. 3. If you increase the amount of spinach you eat, then you will increase the iron in your blood. What's the dependent variable? A) The amount of iron in your blood. B) The amount of spinach you eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The amount of iron in your blood. 4. A law that regulates the release of hazardous substances into the air, soil, and water by mining operations A) Surface mining control and reclamation act. B) Law of dominance. C) Comprehensive response compensation and liability act. D) Law of segragation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comprehensive response compensation and liability act. 5. Biotic factors in an environment include? A) Living and non-living things. B) Living things-animals, plants and people. C) Non-living things-soil, water and sunlight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Living things-animals, plants and people. 6. Which sphere would satellites orbit the Earth? A) Atmosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Cryosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmosphere. 7. Which of the following is NOT protected or managed by regulation? A) Technology. B) Native habit. C) Plants and animals. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technology. 8. Snow forms when the temperature is below freezing. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. These plants spread their branches on the ground. A) Shrubs. B) Climbers. C) Creepers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creepers. 10. The base of the ocean's food chain is usually: A) Coral reefs. B) Sargassum. C) Krill. D) Plankton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plankton. 11. Which is an example of competition? A) Two species of insects that feed on the same rare plant. B) A bobcat and a jackrabbit. C) An African lioness feeding her cubs. D) A tick living on a dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two species of insects that feed on the same rare plant. 12. Which is not a part of our body? A) Nose. B) Ice-cream. C) Tongue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ice-cream. 13. Which layer of the atmosphere does all weather occur? A) Exosphere. B) Troposphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troposphere. 14. What is the idea that geologic processes are occurring now are the same as those that occurred in the past? A) Unconformities. B) Uniformitarianism. C) Epicism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uniformitarianism. 15. An organized procedure used by scientists to test a hypothesis. A) Scientific method. B) Experiment. C) Data collection. D) Metric system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experiment. 16. Which statement about water pollution is TRUE? A) Pollution only affects surface water. B) Pollution cannot be dissolved in water. C) Pollution affects both surface and groundwater. D) Pollution cannot travel through soil to groundwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pollution affects both surface and groundwater. 17. The spinning of a planet on its axis is called A) Rotation. B) Revolution. C) Orbit. D) Eccentricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotation. 18. If a natural disturbance occurs and a species undergoes a bottleneck effect, the resulting genetic diversity will be ..... A) Increased. B) Decreased. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreased. 19. LPG FULL FORM A) LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS. B) LIQUID PEARL GAS. C) LIQUID PETROLEUM GAS. D) LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS. 20. Environmental science is? A) Change and security-oriented. B) Mother and child oriented. C) Interdisciplinary and mission-oriented. D) Government and health-oriented. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interdisciplinary and mission-oriented. ← 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