This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 521 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 521 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Plants interact with living and nonliving components in their environment. Which is an interaction with a nonliving element? A) Small insects eating the stems of the plants. B) Humans breathing oxygen released by plants. C) Bees gathering pollen from flowers of plants. D) Sandy soil holding the roots of the plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sandy soil holding the roots of the plants. 2. How did the agricultural revolution affect the environment? A) Over hunting animals. B) Replaced all the lands with farmland. C) Improve the quality of life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replaced all the lands with farmland. 3. Mobile organisms are able to choose where they live, under process called habitat selection A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. ..... is a process used to solve problems of develop an understanding of nature that involves testing possible answers. A) Hypothesis. B) Science. C) Experiments. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Science. 5. Though CFC production has been curtailed, the threat to upper atmospheric ozone continues because CFCs A) Become harmless quickly. B) Destroy ozone for only a short time. C) Persist but stop destroying ozone. D) Persist and continue to destroy ozone for decades. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persist and continue to destroy ozone for decades. 6. Disease is any departure from health, a particular destructive process in an organ or organism with a specific cause and signs A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. In the town of Podunk, Alabama the population at the beginning of the year was 4882. If 27 babies were born in that given year, what is the birth rate? Births/Pop = then x 1000 = Birth Rate A) 7.66. B) 9.22. C) 5.53. D) 2.78. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5.53. 8. What is the theorized force that moves the plates? A) Subduction. B) Sea Floor Spreading. C) Convection. D) Mid Ocean Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection. 9. A species that is not native to a particular region A) Keystone species. B) Exotic species. C) Extinct species. D) Endangered species. E) Threatened species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exotic species. 10. Cities become known as ..... because they heat up and cool down faster than their surrounding areas. A) Hot spots. B) Heated lands. C) Heat islands. D) Hot islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heat islands. 11. Which of the following would not likely be mined using solution mining? A) Gypsum. B) Potash. C) Salt. D) Sulfur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gypsum. 12. The climate, air, water, soil, and living organisms are all part of the A) Population. B) Community. C) Environment. D) Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environment. 13. A gymnosperm is classified as a(n) A) Animal. B) Protist. C) Fungus. D) Plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plant. 14. Select the best definition for the term sustainable. A) Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply. B) The amount of a product or service offered for sale at a given price. C) The amount of a product or service people will buy at a given price if free to do so. D) Upsetting the ecological balance by depleting natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply. 15. What do we call a relationship between 2 species where one benefits and the other is harmed? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 16. What does genetic diversity within a population provide? A) Adaptability and resilience to changing environmental conditions. B) Stability and balance within the ecosystem. C) The physical characteristics of the habitat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adaptability and resilience to changing environmental conditions. 17. A mountain forms, splitting a species of lizard into two groups. Over time, the lizard species evolves into two separate species. What type of speciation is described in the example? A) Genetic drift. B) Allopatric. C) Coevolution. D) Sympatric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allopatric. 18. Philippines is considered as one of the seventeen megadiverse countries as well as global biodiversity hotspot A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 19. In Cryopreservation conservation of germplasm is done at a very low temperature of ..... degree celsius in liquid nitrogen A) -10. B) -76. C) -196. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -196. 20. This is found in the topsoil and is made of decaying plants and animals. A) Dirt. B) Water. C) Humus. D) Subsoil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humus. ← 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