This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 340 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 340 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the water that flows over land and collects in a stream or river? A) Watershed. B) Water table. C) Runoff. D) Recharge zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Runoff. 2. Deliberately set, controlled small fire that removes flammable small trees and underbrush in the highest-risk forest areas A) Buffer zone. B) Overgrazing. C) Prescribed Burns. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prescribed Burns. 3. How is electricity generated in a coal powered plant? A) Heat from the burning coal boils water and produces steam which turns the turbines. B) Heat from the burning coal heats the air which turns the turbines. C) The turbine breaks down the coal into liquid fuel that powers the generator. D) The coal is heated until it vaporizes and the vapor is the distilled in the combustion chamber which turns the turbine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat from the burning coal boils water and produces steam which turns the turbines. 4. Which effect is not currently considered to be caused by global climate change? A) Rising sea levels. B) Reduction in Arctic sea ice. C) More severe tropical storms. D) Increased precipitation worldwide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased precipitation worldwide. 5. Anthropogenic ozone is formed and located in which layer? A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. E) Exosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 6. What is one action that can be used to reduce global warming? A) Reduce our recycling. B) Use more plastic containers. C) Use more fossil fuels. D) Use less fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use less fossil fuels. 7. Which of the following is NOT an important effect of the agricultural revolution? A) Soil erosion. B) Pollution. C) Plant and animal domestication. D) Habitat destruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollution. 8. In a positive feedback loop, each action creates a consequence that ..... the other action. A) Decreases. B) Has no effect on. C) Amplifies. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amplifies. 9. What do we call the process of collecting and reusing old materials to make new products? A) Consumption. B) Recycling. C) Pollution. D) Disposal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycling. 10. What keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun? A) Gravity. B) Magnetism. C) Friction. D) Elasticity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravity. 11. Fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas that were formed over millions of years from decayed plants and animals. This process requires time, pressure, and heat and helps to create ..... A) Fossil Fuels. B) Renewable Resources. C) Dinosaurs. D) Fancy looking seashells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fossil Fuels. 12. Wind is part of what sphere of Earth? A) Windosphere. B) Atmosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Airosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atmosphere. 13. Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres? A) Hydrosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere. 14. A solid fossil fuel formed from the remains of land plants that are buried and exposed to intense heat and pressure for 300-400 million years A) Crude oil. B) Coal. C) Commercial energy. D) Petrochemical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coal. 15. Local winds are produced by geographic features. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. When a measurement is repeatable and consistent it is said to have ..... A) High precision. B) Low precision. C) High accuracy. D) Low accuracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High precision. 17. True or False:Symbiotic relationships are always beneficial for both species involved. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. What creates an El Nino condition? A) The ocean currents change causing warmer than normal ocean temperatures. B) The shape of the coast changes and fish populations decline. C) Storms and other weather events in the atlantic ocean create it. D) The prevailing winds get stronger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ocean currents change causing warmer than normal ocean temperatures. 19. This is a firm structure that protects and gives shape to the cells of plants. A) Cell wall. B) Cell membrane. C) Spicules. D) Chloroplast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cell wall. 20. Which natural process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? A) Forest fires. B) Volcanic eruptions. C) Cellular respiration. D) Photosynthesis. 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