This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 294 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 294 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most common source of carbon monoxide comes from ..... A) Vehicles. B) Swamp gases. C) Industrial sources. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vehicles. 2. A testable explanation that is based on observations and research is known as a A) Conclusion. B) Variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypothesis. 3. This type of interaction is when one species benefits and the other is harmed. A) Parasitism. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Competition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parasitism. 4. Any significant change in measures of climate, such as temperature lasting for an extended period of a decade or longer. A) BIOTECHNOLOGY. B) CLIMATE CHANGE. C) CONVECTION. D) COMPOST. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CLIMATE CHANGE. 5. What is the shape of an age structure diagram for the following:growing population? A) . B) . C) . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 6. A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual. A) Subsidy. B) Policy. C) Environmental economics. D) Environmental policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Policy. 7. ..... means moving into a population. A) Immigration. B) Emmigration. C) Plantation. D) Repopulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immigration. 8. Name that cycle:The one that gives plants their food via photosynthesis. A) Nitrogen Cycle. B) Water Cycle. C) Carbon Cycle. D) Oxygen Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon Cycle. 9. What percent of water on Earth is freshwater? A) 1%. B) 2%. C) 3%. D) 4%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3%. 10. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own A) Environment. B) Ecosystem. C) Sustainability. D) The Endangered Species Act. E) John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustainability. 11. A negative feedback loop has an end goal of ..... A) Stability. B) Happiness. C) Destabilization. D) Creating a domino effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stability. 12. Heat transfer due to density differences A) Conduction. B) Convection. C) Radiation. D) Magnetism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convection. 13. These animals have specific diet and climate requirements A) Extinct. B) Generalists. C) Specialists. D) Endangered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Specialists. 14. How do you think the previous picture is connected to the what happened in the Great Plains? A) It shows the movement of people Homesteading the Plains of Idaho. B) It is a great race across the Great Plains. C) It documents settlers traveling to California. D) They are not related. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It shows the movement of people Homesteading the Plains of Idaho. 15. When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? A) The atmosphere and the geosphere. B) The geosphere and the hydrosphere. C) The hydrosphere and atmosphere. D) The biosphere and the geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The biosphere and the geosphere. 16. The very bottom of a body of water is called the ..... zone. A) Ocean. B) Benthic. C) Intertidal. D) Photic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benthic. 17. Biome characteristics are most affected by the ..... of a location. A) Soil. B) Temperature. C) Rainfall. D) Sunlight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature. 18. This happens when there is a sudden unfavorable change in the characteristics of air, water, and land. A) Contamination. B) Ecological imbalance. C) Pollution. D) Impurity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pollution. 19. Which fossil fuel energy source does the world (and US) have the largest supply of? A) Natural gas. B) Coal. C) Petroleum. D) Crude oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coal. 20. This biome has plants with small, waxy leaves A) Chaparral. B) Grasslands. C) Rain forest. D) Deciduous forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaparral. ← 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