This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 456 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 456 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The major source of noise pollution worldwide is due to: A) Office Equipment. B) Transport System. C) Sugar, Textile, and Paper Industries. D) Oil Refineries and Thermal Powerplants tagsModerate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oil Refineries and Thermal Powerplants tagsModerate. 2. How does the air move in a land breeze? A) From east to west. B) From west to east. C) From the land to the ocean. D) From the ocean to the land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From the land to the ocean. 3. All organisms that cannot swim actively in open water, they are consumed by other living creatures A) Nekton. B) Benthos. C) Plankton. D) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plankton. 4. A species is considered endangered if it ..... A) Lives in an area that is legally protected from harmful human activities. B) Lives in an area that has been impacted by many invasive species. C) Has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct. D) Has been identified as part of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct. 5. A method for studying the natural world is ..... A) Science. B) Social studies. C) English. D) Math. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Science. 6. Temperature inversions can create A) Fog. B) Earthquakes. C) Droughts. D) Floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fog. 7. Cellular Respiration is a chemical reaction in which living organisms take in oxygen and glucose (sugar) from the environment and are converted to carbon dioxide, water, and ATP (energy). These products are then later outputted to the external environment. This is an example of a: A) Open system. B) Closed system. C) Process plants can't complete. D) Cool process organisms go through. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed system. 8. Which fossil fuel can be stored underground until use or transported through pipelines and liquefied? A) Coal. B) Oil. C) Peat. D) Natural gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural gas. 9. The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another. A) Continental Drift. B) Igneous Rock. C) Lithosphere. D) Erosion. E) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erosion. 10. In a rain forest, plants called THIS use the entire surface of a tree as a place to live. A) Understory. B) Epiphytes. C) Canopy. D) Permafrost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphytes. 11. Which sector of the US uses the majority of energy resources? A) Residential. B) Commercial. C) Residential. D) Industry and Manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industry and Manufacturing. 12. A social movement advocating for protection of the natural environment. A) EACA. B) Environmental activism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Environmental activism. 13. A factor that responds to the changes the experimenter makes on the y-axis of a graph A) Dependent Variable. B) Independent Variable. C) Control Group. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent Variable. 14. The long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region A) Precipitation. B) Climate. C) Weather. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 15. Fishermen have harvested certain fish to the point where the population of that fish is decreasing. This level of direct harvesting could cause A) Ecosystems to be improved for future generations. B) Ecosystems to be severely damaged. C) The restoration of environmental stability. D) All other fish species to increase in number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecosystems to be severely damaged. 16. Oceans are responsible for 40% of all photosynthesis that occurs on Earth A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Canada has one of the largest estuaries in the world A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. What is one human action that may have caused global ozone depletion? A) Use of CFC's. B) Over fishing. C) Using alternate energy. D) Reducing our use of plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of CFC's. 19. All organisms that swim actively in open water, independent of currents A) D Nekton. B) B) Littoral. C) C) Benthos. D) D) Nekton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D) Nekton. 20. Which of the following is NOT one of the three types or levels of biodiversity? A) Genetic biodiversity. B) Species biodiversity. C) Ecosystem/habitat biodiversity. D) Evolutionary biodiversity. 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