This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 64 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To survive hunter-gatherers changed their environment by A) Burning the prairies to prevent trees from growing. B) Spreading plants to areas beyond where they originally grow. C) Neither of these. D) Both of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both of these. 2. A warm period occurring from AD 900 to AD 1100 A) Warm front of the 1st century. B) Medieval global warming. C) Viking Warming. D) Medieval Climate Optimum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medieval Climate Optimum. 3. The actions of government, producer or consumers will always have effects that are unintended or unanticipated. A) Endangered species act. B) Newton's law. C) Law of unintended consequences. D) Resource conservation and recovery act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law of unintended consequences. 4. Geothermal A) Renewable Resource. B) Nonrenewable Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Renewable Resource. 5. What do the leaves of a plant do? A) They make the food for the plant. B) They take in the water from the ground. C) They transport water to the other parts of the plants. D) They support the plant upright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They make the food for the plant. 6. Observation or inference? The folder is sitting on the desk because someone didn't want it. A) Observation. B) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inference. 7. Information gathered during an experiment A) Value. B) Risk. C) Data. D) Experiment. E) Statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. 8. A major difference between environmental science and ecology is the study of the A) Interaction among living things. B) Use of natural resources. C) Influence of humans on the environment. D) Living things interactions with the environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Influence of humans on the environment. 9. Which agency or department enforces the Clean Water Act? A) Environmental Protection Agency. B) Department of Interior. C) Department of Agriculture. D) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environmental Protection Agency. 10. Which of these would not be included as part of the environment? A) What the soil is made of. B) The average temperature, wind, percipitation, and other factors. C) Animals and plants in the region and surrounding area. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. The term used to describe the productive area of Earth needed to support the lifestyle of one person in a particular country is called ..... A) Supply and demand. B) The ecological footprint. C) The consumption crisis. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ecological footprint. 12. What is the chemical formula for water? A) Is it?. B) Right. C) H2O. D) Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H2O. 13. Minerals concentrated by wind and water movement into surface deposits A) Alloy. B) Compound. C) Gemstonews. D) Placier deposits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Placier deposits. 14. The amount of a product or service offered for sale at a give price A) Supply. B) Demand. C) Economics. D) Lobbying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supply. 15. The conversion of ammonium to nitrate is called what? A) Nitrification. B) Renitrification. C) Denitrification. D) Unnitrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrification. 16. On what date is World Population Day celebrated every year? A) July 11. B) August 11. C) June 11th. D) May 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) July 11. 17. Which country is popularity known as 'Land of the wind mills'? A) The Nether lands. B) Poland. C) Norway. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Nether lands. 18. Which of the following is an arid biome present in both high and low altitudes defined by extremely low amounts of precipitation? A) Desert. B) Tundra. C) Aquatic. D) Grassland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desert. 19. Which of the following are problems associated with landfills? A) Composting of organic materials at the site. B) Production of leachate and methane. C) Surface impoundment. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Production of leachate and methane. 20. We need water to..... A) Live. B) Sleep. C) Die. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Live. ← 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