This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 466 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 466 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The critical difference between today's global warming and Earth's previous climate changes is that A) Human-made chemicals such as CFCs do not influence global warming. B) Previous changes in climate were dramatic but very short-lived. C) Scientists can now save all species from extinction by genetic engineering. D) Global warming may occur much more rapidly than it did during previous climate changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Global warming may occur much more rapidly than it did during previous climate changes. 2. What is the process of converting waste materials into reusable materials? A) Recycling. B) Composting. C) Incineration. D) Landfill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycling. 3. It is the process of burning, When it occurs, CO2 is released into the atmosphere A) Photosythesis. B) Respiration. C) Decomposition. D) Combustion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Combustion. 4. A gas in the atmosphere that absorbs Earth's outgoing infrared radiation A) The boy. B) Interglacial. C) Greenhouse gas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse gas. 5. You want to test which soil will help a plant grow the tallest. The height of the plants is the ..... variable. A) Independent. B) Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent. 6. Grass-covered land that animals can graze on A) Prairie. B) Pasture. C) Rangeland. D) Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rangeland. 7. Which of the following is an example of a tragedy of the commons? A) A forest fire kills a population of spruce trees. B) Flooding destroys a human village. C) Overfishing depletes the salmon populations. D) A pandemic caused by a virus outbreak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overfishing depletes the salmon populations. 8. What is an example of a non renewable resource? A) Wind. B) Water. C) Coal. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 9. Dams may be installed in rivers: A) To generate electricity. B) To control floods. C) To provide a water supply to industries and municipalities. D) All of these. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 10. Which type of air mass brings WARM and DRY weather? A) Maritime Polar (mP). B) Maritime Tropical (mT). C) Continental Polar (cP). D) Continental Tropical (cT). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continental Tropical (cT). 11. Different people have ..... abilities. A) Different. B) Touch. C) Sign language. D) Braille. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Different. 12. Which of these is an example of radiation A) Bacon on a heated skillet. B) Falling on a sidewalk. C) Sun heating up the sand. D) Putting a blanket on. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun heating up the sand. 13. After a volcanic eruption has covered an area with lava, which of the following is the most likely order of succession in the repopulation of the area? A) Lichens, grasses, shrubs, trees. B) Mosses, grasses, lichens, trees. C) Grasses, trees, mosses, lichens. D) Shrubs, grasses, trees, lichens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lichens, grasses, shrubs, trees. 14. In a food pyramid, the amount of energy that any level of organism receives decreases A) Up the pyramid. B) In all levels. C) Down the pyramid. D) Across the pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Up the pyramid. 15. The fox in this food web would be considered a: A) Tertiary Consumer. B) Producer. C) Secondary Consumer. D) Primary Consumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tertiary Consumer. 16. Read the statement below and answer if it is a positive or negative feedback loop?As Earth warms, organic matter in soil is decomposed faster:* More carbon dioxide is released * Enhanced greenhouse effect occurs * Earth warms further A) Positive feedback loop. B) Negative feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive feedback loop. 17. What are the four layers of a tropical rain forest? A) Top, bottom, middle. B) Emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor. C) Up super high, high, middle, low. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emergent, canopy, understory, and forest floor. 18. The routine an organism goes through that includes both living and non-living parts of an ecosystem that determines an organisms role in the habitat. A) Niche. B) Habitat. C) Organism. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niche. 19. Examples are tomato plants and oak trees A) Fungi. B) Plantae. C) Protista. D) The animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plantae. 20. What are micro-plastics? A) Small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. B) Small plastic pieces less than five centimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. C) Small plastic pieces less than five metres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. D) Small plastic pieces less than five kilometres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life. ← 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