This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 237 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 237 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The clean, relatively low-cost energy source from the Sun is referred to as A) Solar energy. B) Magnetic energy. C) Energy efficient. D) Wind power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar energy. 2. Which best describes the concept of net primary production? A) Total amount of energy available from the Sun. B) Total amount of cellular respiration conducted within an ecosystem. C) Energy captured minus energy lost. D) Total amount of energy available from the producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy captured minus energy lost. 3. ..... is climate change caused by humans. A) Anthropogenic Climate Change. B) Natural Climate Change. C) Economic climate change. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropogenic Climate Change. 4. What do we call the data represented in the form of pictures? A) Pictograph. B) Histogram. C) Frequency Table. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pictograph. 5. The role an organism plays in an environment A) Habitat. B) Predator/Prey Relationship. C) Niche. D) Mutualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niche. 6. Environmental Science is only concerned with pollution or the air, land and sea? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. There are lots of ..... in a rainforest. A) Seas. B) Beaches. C) Trees. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trees. 8. Forest fires produce large amounts of smoke resulting in similar effects to climate as which other natural event? A) The boy. B) Ice ages. C) Volcanism. D) Continental drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanism. 9. Leaves contain ....., which gives them the green colour. A) Chlorophyll. B) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll. 10. What is the main cause of loss of biodiversity? A) Human influences. B) Natural disasters. C) Climate change. D) Overpopulation of certain species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human influences. 11. Process in which bacteria convert nitrogen gas into a form that can be used by other living things is called A) Nitrogen fixation. B) Ammonification. C) Nitrification. D) Denitrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen fixation. 12. This micronutrient is needed only in small amounts because it transports oxygen in the blood in animals and is necessary for photosynthesis in plants A) Potassium. B) Iron. C) Calcium. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iron. 13. Twisted pentacme A) White lauan. B) Red lauan. C) Select. D) Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White lauan. 14. The study of chemicals and their interactions A) Social sciences. B) Biology. C) Chemistry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chemistry. 15. Name this biome A) Deciduous Forest. B) Desert. C) Chaparral. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chaparral. 16. What is the purpose of catalytic converters? A) To reduce NOx emissions from exhaust systems. B) To remove sulfur from fuels before burning. C) To eliminate SO2 from industrial chimney emissions. D) To reduce VOC emissions from certain liquids and gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To reduce NOx emissions from exhaust systems. 17. The product is tropospheric ozone A) VOCS. B) Secondary Pollutants. C) Stratosphere. D) Photochemical Smog. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photochemical Smog. 18. Where did the Dust Bowl take place? A) Central California. B) The East Coast. C) The Great Plains. D) The Great Lakes region. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Great Plains. 19. Which of these would have the greater amount of humus? A) Topsoil. B) Subsoil. C) Bedrock. D) The horizon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topsoil. 20. Falling leaves in the deciduous forest produce thick, rich soil called A) Humus. B) Puss. C) Peat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humus. ← 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