This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 245 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 245 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Scientists rely on ..... to summarize, characterize, analyze, and compare data. A) One another. B) Probability. C) Themselves. D) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statistics. 2. A society in which the economic emphasis is on providing information and services A) Post-industrial. B) Industrial. C) Horticulutral. D) Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post-industrial. 3. What is the correct order of earth's atmospheric layers from bottom to top? A) Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere. B) Stratosphere, Troposphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere. C) Stratosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Exosphere. D) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere. 4. The Northern Range is the only forested area in Trinidad A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. What does human scale mean? A) Buildings should not be too large. B) Housing should only fit a max of 4 people. C) Stores and places should be in walking distance. D) Many trees should be included in a town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stores and places should be in walking distance. 6. A location where two tectonic plates interact and they can be divergent, convergent or transform. A) Plate Boundary. B) Lithosphere. C) Geological Time. D) Erosion. E) Continental Drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plate Boundary. 7. A scientist wants to see if flower petal color attracts more pollinators. The Scientist uses different colored impatiens (a type of flower) and measures how many pollinators visits each of the different colored flowers over the span of 3 hours. Which of the following would NOT be a constant? A) The species of plant. B) The location. C) The color of the plant. D) The amount of time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The color of the plant. 8. ..... is collected, recorded, and analyzed from their experiments. A) Data. B) Results. C) Information. D) Observations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Data. 9. Natural material that forms at a much slower rate than is depleted is A) A nonrenewable resource. B) A renewable resource. C) Correlation. D) Conservation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nonrenewable resource. 10. How do sulfur and phosphorus return to the atmosphere? A) Primary consumers eat producers. B) Decomposers break down the remains of producers and consumers. C) Plant material is deposited in layers of ponds and lakes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decomposers break down the remains of producers and consumers. 11. In the next few centuries to a millennium, it is anticipated that there will be a significant ..... of ocean pH A) Increase (making the ocean more basic). B) Stagnation. C) Fluctuation. D) Decrease (making the ocean more acidic). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decrease (making the ocean more acidic). 12. How does an increase in carbon dioxide affect global temperature? A) Decreases. B) Increases. C) Does not affect temperature. D) Temperature stays the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increases. 13. An idea must effectively explain a phenomenon, make accurate predictions in a wide range of situations, and have undergone extensive, rigorous testing, to be accepted as a scientific A) Hypothesis. B) Theory. C) Ethic. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theory. 14. Sediments are transported by: A) Wind. B) Water. C) Glaciers. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. Which layer of the atmosphere is closest to the Earth's surface? A) Thermosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Stratosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 16. Tragedy of the commons occurs when individuals neglect their personal gain in the pursuit of the well-being of society. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Sphere containing all land A) Atmosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geosphere. 18. What is the process of runoff? A) A small amount of Precipitation not evaporated returns to streams, rivers, lakes. B) When a small amount of water turns into grounwater. C) A combination of preicipitation and evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A small amount of Precipitation not evaporated returns to streams, rivers, lakes. 19. When there is higher biodiversity- A) More organisms are likely to die because they can't adapt to environmental changes. B) There is higher sustainability of life. C) More organisms are likely to specieate. D) There are less predators in the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is higher sustainability of life. 20. In-order for an ecological footprint comparison to be useful, the same method must be used for each person, state, or country, etc. A) True. B) False. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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