This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 270 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 270 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A thermal inversion is when dense cold air doesn't rise and pollution accumulates? True or False? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Which of the following is not a disadvantage of incineration? A) May produce leachate that contaminates the groundwater. B) Gases released need to be treated with a scrubber. C) Fly ash has to be removed in the baghouse. D) Fly ash has to be disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) May produce leachate that contaminates the groundwater. 3. Nuclear Power is utilized by the United States to create electricity but the waste created can cause A) Illness. B) Death. C) Both of these. D) Neither of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 4. Five oceans that make up the world ocean A) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern. B) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Northern. C) Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian & Arctic. D) Arctic, Antarctic, Southern, Pacific & Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern. 5. Economics is ..... A) The amount of product offered for sale. B) A comparison of sacrifice and gain by a specific action. C) The amount of product bought at a certain price. D) The study of how resources are converted into goods and services. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The study of how resources are converted into goods and services. 6. What is the term for a type of energy that does not use up natural resources or harm the environment? A) Alternative energy. B) Renewable energy. C) Sustainable energy. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 7. A(n) ..... is based on observations and must be testable and falsifiable. A) Hypothesis. B) Experiment. C) Conclusion. D) Your mom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis. 8. ..... are LARGE areas that have similar climate, plant life, and animals. A) Ecosystem. B) Habitat. C) Population. D) Biomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biomes. 9. The rural areas are ..... populated. A) Densely. B) Highly. C) Largely. D) Sparsely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sparsely. 10. Which of the following sciences contribute to the field of environmentalscience? A) Physics and chemistry. B) Biology and earth science. C) Social sciences. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist. Think of it as the cause of change in the experiment. A) Dependent variable. B) Independent variable. C) Data. D) Control group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent variable. 12. An effect of climate change is stronger storms. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming and raising livestock. A) Agricultural Revolution. B) Agricultural lifestyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agricultural Revolution. 14. What makes a vegetable also a fruit? A) You can eat it. B) It tastes sweet. C) It has seeds. D) It is colorful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has seeds. 15. A farmer decides to test the effectiveness of three fertilizers on growth of strawberry plants. The DEPENDENT variable in his experiment would be what? A) Growth (height) of strawberry plants. B) Brand of fertilizer. C) Amount of water each plant needed. D) What type of plant grew more. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growth (height) of strawberry plants. 16. Which is formed when a section of impermeable rock forces groundwater to move laterally and emerge onto the surface of Earth? A) A spring. B) An aquifer. C) A geyser. D) A well. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A spring. 17. Earth would be ..... without the Greenhouse Effect A) Too cold. B) Too hot. C) Too wet. D) Lacking in oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Too cold. 18. Who had a campaign for planting 1 billion trees (still ongoing today)? A) Thomas Hylton. B) Wangari Mata. C) Rachel Carson. D) E. O. Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wangari Mata. 19. Matter in which the particles are free to move in all directions until they have spread evenly throughout their container is a ..... A) Plasma. B) Liquid. C) Solid. D) Gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gas. 20. Nitrogen exists in the atmosphere in the form of ..... A) NH4+. B) Type-. C) Na. D) Storm. 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