This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 253 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 253 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Anthropocentrism is ..... A) An ethical point of view that extends inherent value to all living things. B) Used by environmental philosophers and ecologists to denote a nature-centered. C) The point of view that humans are the only, or primary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The point of view that humans are the only, or primary. 2. A testable statement that provides a possible answer to a question or an explanation to an observation. A) Prediction. B) Hypothesis. C) Experiments. D) Observation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 3. Saving energy and other resources without sacrificing people's comfort is the goal of A) Greenways. B) Urban growth boundaries. C) Green building design. D) Zoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green building design. 4. The ability of a system to do work; required for change to happen. A) Energy. B) Energy Transfer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy. 5. Why is Monsanto (as well as other huge corporations) a threat to farmers? A) The corporation promotes farming in crowded, dirty conditions. B) The corporation poisons a farmer's water supply needed for crop irrigation. C) The corporation prevents food recalls needed to prevent sickness in people. D) The corporation sues if farmers save seeds at the end of a growing season tagsSEV4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The corporation sues if farmers save seeds at the end of a growing season tagsSEV4. 6. When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, which one will subduct? A) Oceanic. B) Continental. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oceanic. 7. Natural material that is formed at a slower rate than it is consumed A) Sustainable natural resource. B) Renewable natural resource. C) Closed system. D) Nonrenewable natural resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nonrenewable natural resource. 8. The law aims to achieve and maintain clean air that meets the National Air Quality guideline values for criteria pollutants, throughout the Philippines, while minimizing the possible associated impacts to the economy. A) REPUBLIC ACT 6969 TOXIC SUBSTANCES. B) PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 1586 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. C) REPUBLIC ACT 8749 PHILIPPINE CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1999. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) REPUBLIC ACT 8749 PHILIPPINE CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1999. 9. The basic premise behind 'The tragedy of the commons' is A) A resource becomes overexploited when its ownership is shared. B) Pollution prevention costs less than pollution clean-up. C) When assessing risk, people frequently overestimate unfamiliar risks. D) All of these are correct. tagsEN.LS2.7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A resource becomes overexploited when its ownership is shared. 10. Oxygen is produced by photosynthesis by plants. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans. A) Natural resources. B) Natural services. C) Natural capital. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural resources. 12. Which major changes in human society and the environment occured during the Industrial Revolution? A) People lived in small tribes; many mammals went extinct. B) Domesticated plants were altered; forest was replaced with farmland. C) Fossil fuel consumption, technological efficiency, and environmental pollution increased. D) Common grazing areas were replaced with closed fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil fuel consumption, technological efficiency, and environmental pollution increased. 13. Is a search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term A) Environmental quality. B) Sustainability. C) Environmental Changes. D) Sustainable development. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sustainability. 14. True or False:Life exists in all layers of the planet? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. If environmental scientists want to publish a paper on an experiment for an audience of fellow specialists, where do they do so? A) Media interview. B) Public hearing on issues. C) Journal article. D) Newspaper story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Journal article. 16. Without plants we would have no animals. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Accidental change in DNA that occurs whil DNA is being copied A) Evolution. B) Gene. C) Mutation. D) Genetic drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutation. 18. If leachate was to leak out of a landfill, what could be one environmental consequence? A) Groundwater could become contaminated. B) Soil could become contaminated. C) Water found on the surface could become contaminated. D) All of these answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these answers are correct. 19. What is the purpose of flue-gas desulfurization? 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: C) To eliminate SO2 from industrial chimney emissions. 20. Music, art, and architecture born from interactions with nature are all examples of what type of ecosystem service? A) Provisioning. B) Regulating. C) Cultural. D) Supporting. 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