This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 533 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 533 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the largest part of our body? A) Ears. B) Skin. C) Head. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 2. The liquid water on Earth A) Hydrosphere. B) Cryosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) Aquasphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydrosphere. 3. Which of the following organelles is found ONLY in Plant Cells A) Ribosomes. B) Mitochondria. C) Chloroplast. D) Endoplasmic Reticulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chloroplast. 4. Anthropogenic climate change is a result of humans putting more ..... into the atmosphere. A) Oxygen. B) Heat. C) Greenhouse gases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenhouse gases. 5. The ocean A) Convection. B) Conduction. C) Radiation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convection. 6. An organism that makes its own food using sunlight is a A) Producer. B) Consumer. C) Decoposer. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producer. 7. Which of the following "ecosystem services" do ecological systems provide to the environment? A) Pollute air. B) Purify water. C) Uncycle nutrients. D) Depleted natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purify water. 8. Air is not useful to us in many ways. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. ..... is a variable that depends on the conditions set up in the experiment. Scientists have no control over it. A) Independent variable. B) Dependent variable. C) Hypothesis. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent variable. 10. The term "precipitation" means ..... A) The amount of salt obtained from a desalination process. B) The rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the ground. C) The amount of sand that is pushed down a river in a flood. D) The percentage of carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere at a given time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the ground. 11. Nitrogen gas (N 2 ), the most abundant form of nitrogen on Earth, is A) Also the easiest for plants to use. B) The easiest form for both animals and plants to use. C) Usually transported in aqueous form. D) Inaccessible to most plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inaccessible to most plants. 12. At what type of boundary do tectonic plates slide past each other (most likely causing earthquakes) A) Convergent. B) Divergent. C) Transform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transform. 13. How are positive ions created? A) A proton is lost. B) An electron is added. C) A proton is added. D) An electron is lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An electron is lost. 14. The return of water from the atmosphere to Earth's surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Precipitation. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Precipitation. 15. What do hot, subsurface waters contain when they are identified as hydrothermal solutions? A) Chunky minerals. B) Dissolved minerals. C) Gangue minerals. D) Organic compounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dissolved minerals. 16. Gaseous portion of the earth A) Atmoshphere. B) Cows. C) Stratosphere. D) Greenhouse affects. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atmoshphere. 17. What part of the soil is the A-horizon? A) Subsoil. B) Bedrock. C) Topsoil. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topsoil. 18. Earth Day begin on what day and year? A) April 22, 1970. B) April 2, 2010. C) March 20, 1970. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) April 22, 1970. 19. How many oxygen atoms does a molecule of ozone contain? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 20. Read the statement below and answer if it is a positive or negative feedback loop? Warm ocean currents such as Gulf stream are disrupted by additional fresh water input into ocean Reduced transfer of energy to poles reduces temperature at high latitudes Ice sheets reform and icebergs retreat Warm currents are re-established A) Positive feedback loop. B) Negative feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative feedback loop. ← 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