This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 41 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 41 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The tropical savanna & temperate grassland are both types of grasslands. What differentiates them is the fact that A) The savanna is hotter. B) The savanna is cooler. C) The grassland is hotter. D) The grassland receives much more precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The savanna is hotter. 2. Area that contains nonwoody plants, such as cattails A) Barrier Island. B) Estuary. C) Marshes. D) Swamps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marshes. 3. What pollutant forms when automobile emissions react with oxygen gas and ultraviolet rays? A) Smog/ ground level ozone. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Radon. D) Sulfur dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smog/ ground level ozone. 4. What are the three types of plate boundaries? A) Divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries. B) Oceanic boundaries, continental boundaries, and island boundaries. C) Tectonic boundaries, fault boundaries, and rift boundaries. D) Subduction boundaries, collision boundaries, and sliding boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries. 5. Which is not a type of symbiotic relationship? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Predation. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predation. 6. The prefix "Hydro" means ..... A) Ground. B) Water. C) Life. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 7. The long term effects of a dead zone includes all of the following except for A) Fisherman may struggle to catch any fish. B) The crops of farmers stop growing. C) The health of the fish population declines. D) There is an increase in the population of decomposers such as bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The crops of farmers stop growing. 8. A species that plays a far more important in its community than its relative abundance might suggest. A) Keystone Species. B) Pioneer Species. C) Indicator Species. D) Exotic Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keystone Species. 9. Where I find clouds. A) Thermosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Ionosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 10. Crude oil is also known as light crude or conventional oil. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. ..... energy resources are used up faster than they can be produced and the amount of these materials are finite. A) Renewable. B) Nonrenewable. C) Natural. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonrenewable. 12. This variable is the actual data collected during the experiment. A) Independent variable. B) Dependent variable. C) Control group. D) Data group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent variable. 13. Which item should you NOT put in your compost pile? A) Food scraps. B) Autumn leaves. C) Wood chips. D) Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic. 14. Why is a dust bowl like the one that occurred in the 1930s less likely to happen today? A) The soil that blew and created that dust bowl is gone now. B) There are fewer farms across the Plains states today. C) There are best management practices in place to keep soil on the land. D) We now have more animal farms instead of farms for produce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There are best management practices in place to keep soil on the land. 15. Water, biomass energy, trees and soil are examples of: A) Nutrient cycling. B) Inexhaustible resources. C) Renewable resource. D) Nonrenewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renewable resource. 16. Type of algal bloom that appears red instead of green A) Pathogens. B) Red tide. C) Septic system. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red tide. 17. Locations further ..... will experience sunrise and sunset earlier. A) North. B) South. C) East. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) East. 18. When taken to a new habitat, non-native plants often threaten native plants of the new habitat. Why do they do this? A) Non-native plants are able to mutate rapidly. B) Non-native plants cause native animals to relocate. C) Non-native plants are always used to make medicines. D) Non-native plants compete with native plants for resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-native plants compete with native plants for resources. 19. Which one is an example of recycling? A) Reusing a paper bag for lunch. B) Using less water to take a bath. C) Making new glass bottles from old ones. D) Using plastic cups instead of paper cups. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making new glass bottles from old ones. 20. Interaction between species, in which the survival of the participating organisms is lowered by the presence of another. A) Predation. B) Mutualism. C) Competition. D) Amensalism. 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