Environmental Sciences Quiz 488 (20 MCQs)

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1. Disease causing organisms like viruses, bacteria, and parasites

Correct Answer: A) Pathogens.

2. Cutting down large forests (deforestation) can result in:

Correct Answer: C) Less plants to absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

3. Which biome consists of diverse deciduous trees and has noticeable summers?

Correct Answer: B) Temperate forest.

4. The environmental protection of India came in the year-

Correct Answer: A) 1986.

5. The ..... was the time when humans started using machines to produce goods.

Correct Answer: C) Industrial Revolution.

6. Examples of ..... are carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, a carbon monoxide, a molecule that blocks the blood from transporting oxygen.

Correct Answer: B) Carbon oxide.

7. What type of consumer only eats plants?

Correct Answer: B) Herbivore.

8. Match the organisms with their role in the ecosystem

Correct Answer: D) Kudzu vine-invasive, beaver-foundation, sea otter-keystone.

9. The tragedy of the commons refers to

Correct Answer: D) When humans over use the resources in an area.

10. If pesticides are stored in the operation, where should they be kept?

Correct Answer: A) In a secure location, away from food and equipment.

11. When water falls from the clouds

Correct Answer: C) Precipitation.

12. What has the highest population density? Which area is the most densely populated?

Correct Answer: D) City.

13. It suggests that human beings are the most important beings. All other living beings are but accessories that would assist in their survival

Correct Answer: A) Anthropocentrism.

14. The most abundant Greenhouse Gas in the atmosphere is .....

Correct Answer: A) Carbon dioxide.

15. The process in which sediment are fused or glued together.

Correct Answer: D) Cementation.

16. In big cities, what is the greatest threat to air quality?

Correct Answer: A) Vehicle emissions.

17. Most of the energy of an ecosystem comes from .....

Correct Answer: B) The sun.

18. When harmful substances build up in the air to unhealthy levels, it is called

Correct Answer: D) Air pollution.

19. In an estuary, when fresh water meets salt water, currents form and cause

Correct Answer: B) Nutrients to fall the bottom.

20. What is the main characteristic of abyssal plains?

Correct Answer: C) Flat and lack of significant topographic features.