This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 561 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 561 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The differences observed between control groups and experimental groups can help identify ..... relationships A) Cause-and-effect. B) Inverse-and-converse. C) Conditional. D) Unconditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause-and-effect. 2. Chemical released by chlorofluorocarbons is: A) Nitrogen. B) Chlorine. C) Sulfuric acid. D) Sodium chloride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chlorine. 3. Which of the following is the correct estimated percentage of fresh water on Earth? A) 2.5%. B) 3.5%. C) 4.5%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2.5%. 4. Factors that affect a population depending on its size-these include food, predation, parasitism, and disease A) Density-Dependent factor. B) Density-Independent factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Density-Dependent factor. 5. Abbreviation for ground-level ozone? A) Yes. B) OzO. C) GLO. D) Hn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 6. Which three problems are most directly caused by humans? A) Lack of water, poor eye sight, earthquake. B) Tsunami, flood, drought. C) Habitat loss, illegal hunting, civil unrest. D) Drought, habitat loss, lack of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habitat loss, illegal hunting, civil unrest. 7. Define preservation: A) Using resources in a way that we don't run out of them in the future. B) Planting trees to grow and develop into forests. C) The removal of a forest or trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. D) Protecting a resource or land area by not using it at all and saving it for future generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protecting a resource or land area by not using it at all and saving it for future generations. 8. Global temperatures have been increasing drastically? A) Since the Jurassic Era (time of dinosaurs) 65 million yr ago. B) Since the advent of human kind. C) Since the industrial revolution. D) Climate change is not real and there is not scientific evidence of temperature change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Since the industrial revolution. 9. What does the Lincoln Index measure? A) Population size. B) Species diversity. C) Habitat diversity. D) Genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Population size. 10. What big Effect did The Industrial Revolution have on the environment A) It used up a lot of natural resources leaving fewer resources for animals. B) Caused a large population boost of piggin habitats and homes. C) Stoped the need for factory. D) It started using coal, fossil fuels, and water sources as power, whichcauses pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It started using coal, fossil fuels, and water sources as power, whichcauses pollution. 11. Everyone has a carbon footprint. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. What does it mean for a resource to be renewable? A) It can be replaced/replenished within a human's lifetime. B) I takes very long in order for the earth to replace/replenish it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It can be replaced/replenished within a human's lifetime. 13. If left unmanaged or unregulated, the result of the Tragedy of the Commons is often A) Depletion of the resource and everyone suffers. B) Increase of the resource and everyone suffers. C) Depletion of the resource and everyone benefits. D) Sustainable use. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depletion of the resource and everyone suffers. 14. When two different bird species temporarily occupy the same niche, they would most likely A) Interbreed to form a new species. B) Not affect one another. C) Compete with one another. D) Change their nesting behaviors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compete with one another. 15. When people use up, waste, or pollute natural resources faster than those resources can be renewed, replaced, or cleaned up it is referred to as ..... A) Convection crisis. B) Continents crisis. C) Consumer crisis. D) Consumption crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consumption crisis. 16. In which areas does acid rain most likely form before precipitating in locations downwind? A) Large cities with a low volume of smog. B) Large cities with a high volume of smog. C) Coastal cities that are not developed. D) Small farming areas near lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large cities with a high volume of smog. 17. Global warming is thought to be increasing the temperature of the oceans and the lower atmosphere. How will this affect the amount of moisture in the air? A) It will increase moisture. B) It will have no effect on moisture. C) It will decrease moisture. D) Higher ocean temperatures do not affect the development of hurricanes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will increase moisture. 18. Land used to grow plants for food and fiber A) Rangeland. B) Forest land. C) Farmland. D) Urban land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farmland. 19. Which is NOT a criteria pollutant? A) Sulfur dioxide. B) Lead. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Particulate matter. E) Tropospheric ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon dioxide. 20. There are two types of smog: ..... smog and ..... A) Traffic smog and warm. B) Warm smog and sunlight. C) Photochemical smog and industrial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photochemical smog and industrial. ← 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