This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 407 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 407 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Human activities can degrade natural capital by using normally renewable resources faster than nature can restore them." A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Humans breed organisms together to achieve particular genetic traits A) Natural Selection. B) Artificial Selection. C) Speciation. D) Extinction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial Selection. 3. In the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 the state recognizes the principle that: A) Polluters are given chances. B) Polluters must be behind bars. C) Polluters must pay. D) Polluters must clean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polluters must pay. 4. An adaptation that does not help organisms survive in the coniferous forest is A) Migration. B) Bright colors. C) Thick fur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bright colors. 5. Our body has ..... different parts. A) Some. B) Many. C) Twelve. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many. 6. In which country is the population likely to be increasing most rapidly? A) Kenya. B) Germany. C) Australia. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kenya. 7. Ecosystem services are ..... A) Ways that ecosystems provide benefits directly to animals. B) Services that humans provide to benefit ecosystems. C) Ways that ecosystems provide benefits directly to humans. D) Services humans use to destroy nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ways that ecosystems provide benefits directly to humans. 8. The most comprehensiveglobal environmentalagreement on hazardousand other wastes A) Kyoto Protocol. B) Convention on International Trade in Endagered Species. C) Chain Saw Act. D) Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal. 9. Which of the following BEST describes radiation balance? A) Radiation entering = radiation exiting the atmosphere. B) Radiation exiting = radiation overall in the atmosphere. C) Radiation exiting < radiation entering the atmosphere. D) Radiation entering > radiation exiting the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radiation entering = radiation exiting the atmosphere. 10. Which of the following is one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth? A) Limestone. B) Fossil fuels. C) Amazon rain forest. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limestone. 11. A black, gooey liquid containing a mixture of combustible hydrocarbons A) Natural gas. B) Proven oil reserve. C) Crude oil. D) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crude oil. 12. What is the product of Melting? A) Igneous Rock. B) Sediments. C) Sedimentary rock. D) Magma. E) Metamorphic rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Magma. 13. A local park in your city is home to several species of birds and insects. It also provides a place for people to exercise and relax. What type of ecosystem service does this park provide? A) Provisioning service. B) Cultural service. C) Regulating service. D) Supporting service. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cultural service. 14. The majority of the sea ice is located A) Antarctica and Greenland. B) North America. C) Arctic. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arctic. 15. A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's surface. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. What is the term for the measure of demands made by one person or group on global natural resources? A) Ecological footprint. B) Environmental activism. C) Tragedy of the Commons. D) Renewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ecological footprint. 17. An atom that has a different number of neutrons than protons is called? A) Valence electron. B) Isotope. C) Different element. D) Ion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isotope. 18. In an ecosystem, some plants may convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia through a process called A) Denitrification. B) Nitrogen mutation. C) Transformation. D) Nitrogen fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen fixation. 19. Biome with trees that lose their leaves to save water A) Tundra. B) Rain forest. C) TDF. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TDF. 20. Which of the following energy sources has the lowest negative environmental impacts? A) Biomass. B) Nuclear. C) Natural Gas. D) Solar. 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