This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 552 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 552 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of plankton uses photosynthesis to make its food? A) Zooplankton. B) Phytoplankton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phytoplankton. 2. Personal resource use can include A) Food. B) Hygiene. C) Transportation. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 3. Which part of the geosphere do humans live on? A) Lithosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Mantle. D) Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 4. Select the impact of climate change on forest resources? A) Forest resources are degraded due to droughts, storms and floods. B) Affects the potential of forest products to serve industrial production, consumption, and construction. C) Increased risk of extinction of plant and animal species. D) The above options are all correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The above options are all correct. 5. Most scientific work is observational science or ..... based on information gathering A) Environmental Science. B) Descriptive Science. C) Hypothesis Driven Science. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptive Science. 6. The ability to meet the current demands for a resource without depleting the future supply is called ..... A) Global warning. B) Sustainability. C) Environmental ethics. D) Biodiversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sustainability. 7. Solving environmental problems often involves politics and economics. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What is a law? A) Describes what happens. B) Explains a process. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Describes what happens. 9. Precipitation that can carry pollutants into aquatic ecosystems A) Runoff. B) Marsh. C) Coral reefs. D) Estuary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Runoff. 10. IN winter, the ground of coniferous forests is insulated by A) Pine needles. B) Vegetation. C) Snow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snow. 11. An example of a biotic limiting factor would be: A) Predators. B) Soil chemistry. C) Rainfall. D) Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predators. 12. Science can force a person to live in a certain principle. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. As you go higher in the troposphere, the temperature ..... A) Decreases. B) Increases. C) Stays the same. D) Gets very hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decreases. 14. In 1970 the US government set air quality standards called the ..... A) Breath Easy Act. B) Clean Air Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clean Air Act. 15. Uranium-235 is considered ideal for nuclear reactors due to A) Is wide distribution as a resource. B) Its stable nature as an isotope. C) Its high EROEI. D) Its fissionability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Its fissionability. 16. What types of trees are found in boreal forests? A) Spruce and fur trees. B) Maple and oak trees. C) Tall broad-leaf evergreen leaves. D) Joshua trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spruce and fur trees. 17. The three final steps in the scientific method are ..... A) Analyze data, make observations, form hypothesis. B) Analyze data, draw conclusions, communicate results. C) Make observations, form hypothesis, communicate results. D) Communicate results, analyze data, draw conclusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyze data, draw conclusions, communicate results. 18. Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms. A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Decoposer. D) Herbivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decoposer. 19. Which energy resource is renewable? A) Crude oil. B) Atomic nuclei. C) Biomass. D) Natural gas. E) Coal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biomass. 20. Positive particle located in the nucleus of an atom A) Neutron. B) Electron. C) Proton. D) Electron cloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proton. ← 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