This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 255 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 255 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How can water vapor in the air return to Earth? A) Evaporates and blown by the wind. B) Evaporates and forms clouds. C) Condenses then precipitates. D) Sticks to any warm surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condenses then precipitates. 2. Which act was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency to authorize the National Ambient AirQuality Standards (NAAQS) to assist in the creation of laws to protect the environment? A) National Environmental Policy Act. B) Clean Air Act. C) Energy Independence and Security Act. D) Energy Policy Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clean Air Act. 3. What languages are spoken in Easter Island? A) Rapa Nui and Polynesian. B) Spanish and English. C) Spanish and Dutch. D) Rapa Nui and Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rapa Nui and Spanish. 4. What is the problem with timber plantations? A) Low biodiversity. B) Prone to forest fires. C) Cause soil erosion. D) Absorb excess CO2 from atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Low biodiversity. 5. Which part of the food chain only eats meat? A) A herbivore. B) A carnivore. C) An omnivore. D) A producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A carnivore. 6. Select the statement that correctly identifies and describes the biome located nearest the equator. A) The rainforest receives high levels of precipitation and sunlight, so biodiversity is high. B) The desert receives low levels of precipitation and high levels of sunlight, so biodiversity is low. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rainforest receives high levels of precipitation and sunlight, so biodiversity is high. 7. Plant roots directly obtain water from A) Water vapor. B) Groundwater stored below the soil. C) Precipitation. D) Water runoff from rivers and streams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Groundwater stored below the soil. 8. A Simpson's Diversity Index of 1 is (a) A) Low. B) A high. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A high. 9. What is the definition of sustainability? A) A population faces extinction at carrying capacity. B) Population survives but at a continually decreasing standard of living. C) Population continues indefinitely at the same standard of living. D) A population increases on a J-curve as it uses limited resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population continues indefinitely at the same standard of living. 10. Which wastes more energy? A) A more efficient machine. B) A less efficient machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A less efficient machine. 11. Does what we do today to the environment affect those after us? A) NO. B) YES. C) MAYBE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) YES. 12. What is AQI? A) Air quality index. B) Air quality indention. C) Air quality indication. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air quality index. 13. A place where an organism or group of organisms live and obtain food, air, water, shelter or space, or light needed to survive is called ..... A) An adaptation. B) A niche. C) To habitat. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To habitat. 14. Which of the following were voluntary international agreements to reduce greenhouse gases? A) Delaney Clause of Food, Drugs, & Cosmetics Act. B) Kyoto Protocol & Paris Agreement. C) Clean Water Act. D) CITES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kyoto Protocol & Paris Agreement. 15. Organisms acquire energy that is passed from one organism to another. This is called ..... A) Food web. B) Interaction. C) Food chain. D) Life cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food web. 16. A whale's niche would be which of the following? A) Eating plankton and krill. B) Eating sharks and dolphins. C) Eating hamburgers and fries. D) Eating other whales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eating plankton and krill. 17. A method for managing pollution in which a limit is placed on emissions and businesses or countries can buy and sell emissions allowances A) Command and control approach. B) Environmental economics. C) Cap and trade. D) Supply. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cap and trade. 18. What type of natural resource can be replaced or replenished? A) Zero resources. B) Nonrenewable resources. C) Everything. D) Renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Renewable resources. 19. In which situation are the atmosphere and biosphere interacting? A) A running river erodes soil on a mountain. B) A volcano release hot lava that causes a glacier to melt. C) Sediments from a desert are carried by wind to a rainforest. D) Humans burn fossil fuels that pollute the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humans burn fossil fuels that pollute the atmosphere. 20. When an organism's body temperature rises and falls with the temperature of the air it is called: A) Biotherm. B) Isotherm. C) Endotherm. D) Ectotherm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ectotherm. ← 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