This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 469 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 469 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Before coal has formed over millions of years, it is a wet, sampling of decaying plant material called ..... A) Peanut Butter. B) Peat. C) Mud. D) Sedimentary Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peat. 2. Which kingdom contains organisms that are multicellular autotrophs? A) Fungi. B) Animal. C) Plant. D) Archaebacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plant. 3. What is the second highest level of the forest? A) Upper Canopy. B) Understory. C) Forest Floor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understory. 4. Which of the following is not an environmental effect of deforestation? A) Reduction of wildlife habitat. B) Soil erosion. C) Loss of topsoil. D) Re-establishment of trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Re-establishment of trees. 5. The goal of environmental problem solving is to achieve ..... A) A way to waste fossil fuels. B) A solution for some environmental problems. C) All of the options. D) A sustainable world. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sustainable world. 6. Which of the following biomes would support and be characterized by the greatest number and diversity of herbivores? A) Tundra. B) Short. C) Taiga. D) Grasslands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grasslands. 7. What are the two stages of photosynthesis? A) Calvin Cycle and Krebs Cycle. B) ATP and ADP. C) Light Dependent and LIght Independent reactions. D) Light sensitive and cellular respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light Dependent and LIght Independent reactions. 8. Which of the following has a bigger impact on your eco footprint? A) How much TV you watch. B) Length of your shower/bath. C) Type of Foot you eat. D) Type of Phone you have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Type of Foot you eat. 9. Grassland that receives less than 50 cm of annual rainfall. A) Prairie. B) Steppe. C) Grasslands. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steppe. 10. In which atmospheric layer is most water vapor found? A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 11. During which period in human history were most of our modern environmental problems introduced? A) Hunter-gatherer. B) Agricultural. C) Industrial Revolution. D) Biotechnology Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrial Revolution. 12. The act of one organism consuming another for food is called what? A) Predation. B) Predator. C) Prey. D) Prada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predation. 13. What percentage of the global population lives in developed countries? What percentage of Earth's resources do they use?What percentage of the world's pollution do they cause? A) 10%, 80%, 75%. B) 25%, 98%, 80%. C) 19%, 88%, 75%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19%, 88%, 75%. 14. The massive spike in population growth that has occurred in the past 100 years is due to A) Modern medicine. B) Increased sanitation. C) Improved agriculture. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. What is the very next thing that happens after fertilisers enter a river in eutrophication? A) Fish die due to a lack of oxygen. B) Plants below the surface die due to a lack of sunlight. C) The number of aerobic bacteria increases. D) Fast growth of plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fast growth of plants. 16. What river caught fire in 1969 from all of the waste and pollution filling it? A) East River, New York. B) Mississippi River, Louisiana. C) Cuyahoga River, Ohio. D) Des Plaines River, Illinois. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cuyahoga River, Ohio. 17. What protects the earth from harmful UV rays from the sun? A) Clouds. B) Ionosphere. C) Nitrogen gases. D) The ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ozone. 18. Hetch Hetchy was a beautiful valley in Yosemite. It damming in the 1920's caused major controversy among environmentalists. Opposition was led by John Muir and the Sierra Club. A) Hetch Hetchy. B) Rachel Carson. C) Sustainable world. D) Nonrenewable resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hetch Hetchy. 19. Assuming North is at the top of the map, which side of the mountain whose peak is 682.5 m is the steepest? A) Northwest. B) Southeast. C) North. D) East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Northwest. 20. Environmental science does not consider the economic costs and benefits of environmental policies and actions. A) True. B) False. 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