This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 307 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 307 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Food webs are made of many overlapping ..... A) Niches. B) Food chains. C) Energy pyramids. D) Habitats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Food chains. 2. An increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere (especially sustained increase that causes climatic changes) is called ..... A) Greenhouse gases. B) Global warning. C) Natural resource. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global warning. 3. Ms. Palma needs your help:She needs to find the constant variables for her experiment. She is trying to determine what shampoo makes her hair least frizzy. Which variable would be a constant? A) Type of Shampoo. B) Frizziness of the her hair. C) Amount of Shampoo. D) She doesn't need any constant variables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amount of Shampoo. 4. Which of the following is not a problem caused by the establishment of human communities? A) Succession. B) Pollution. C) Resource depletion. D) Habitat destruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Succession. 5. Plants that spring from the earth to blossom and absorb sunlight belong in what sphere? A) Geosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 6. The following is a characteristic of a developed country. A) Lower wages or incomes. B) Rapid population growth. C) Higher wages or incomes. D) Agriculture based economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Higher wages or incomes. 7. The distance in degrees north and south of the equator is called A) Latitude. B) Longitude. C) Prime Meridian. D) Equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latitude. 8. What is the major cause for air pollution? A) Factories and cars. B) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factories and cars. 9. Which variable goes on the x-axis? A) Dependent Variable. B) Independent Variable. C) Positive Control. D) Negative Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent Variable. 10. Area of Earth's surface where water percolates down into the aquifer A) Aquifer. B) River system. C) Reservoir. D) Recharge zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recharge zone. 11. RTWQ consists of water sampling equipment with sensors to record physical and chemical components of water. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Which of the following does not reduce CO2 in the atmosphere? A) Animal respiration. B) Tropical rainforests. C) Oceans. D) Phytoplankton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Animal respiration. 13. In what ways could we help our environment in the face of global warming? A) Rooftop gardens. B) Solar panels. C) Plant trees. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. Increases or speeds up original change A) Negative feedback. B) Positive feedback. C) Endotherm. D) Ectotherm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive feedback. 15. Autotrophs..... A) Make their own food. B) Are the base of the food chain. C) Are producers. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Which would produce the most severe earthquake damage along the surface of Earth? A) An earthquake with a deep focus and a magnitude of 2.5. B) An earthquake with a shallow focus and a magnitude of 2.5. C) An earthquake with a deep focus and a magnitude of 4.5. D) An earthquake with a shallow focus and a magnitude of 4.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An earthquake with a shallow focus and a magnitude of 4.5. 17. A set of moral principles or values held by a person or a society is called A) Ethics. B) Culture. C) Justice. D) Biocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethics. 18. This warning exhibits bright coloration among organisms that act as signal to their predators that they are poisonous or distasteful. A) Warning hazard. B) Warning coloration. C) Warning adaptation. D) Cryptic coloration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Warning coloration. 19. When water goes from being a liquid to a gas (water vapor), that process is called A) Condensation. B) Evaporation. C) Precipitation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaporation. 20. Any factor in an ecosystem that is currently living or has once lived is called? A) Abiotic Factor. B) Biotic Factor. C) Limiting Factor. D) Non-Living Factor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biotic Factor. ← 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