Environmental Sciences Quiz 689 (20 MCQs)

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1. These statements cannot be tested and are rather based on a belief, hunch, or gut feeling.

Correct Answer: B) Pseudoscience.

2. Riparian Zones also help to increase biodiversity in an area.

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. What is an example of a limiting factor that is caused by an organism's biotic potential?

Correct Answer: A) Its gestation time.

4. A group of organisms that are similar enough to be in the same category that can reproduce together to pass on their genes.

Correct Answer: B) Species.

5. Climate change:El Niño::Landslide:.....

Correct Answer: A) Destruction of properties.

6. Animal feces would be classified as which type of water pollutant?

Correct Answer: B) Organic matter.

7. Which of the following is a source of water for ponds and lakes?

Correct Answer: D) Runoff.

8. Which of the following uses the most water worldwide?

Correct Answer: A) Agriculture.

9. Species that are in danger of becoming extinct are called .....

Correct Answer: A) Endangered.

10. The variable you change on purpose is the

Correct Answer: B) Independent variable.

11. Why is the inner core made of solid metal?

Correct Answer: D) Because of the pressure of the other layers beating down on it.

12. Which type of pollution is the hardest to clean up?

Correct Answer: A) Groundwater.

13. Which organelle belongs in both plant and animal cells?

Correct Answer: D) Cell Membrane.

14. Fuels produced directly or indirectly from organic material (including plant materials and animal waste) are called .....

Correct Answer: D) Biofuels.

15. An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water

Correct Answer: D) Aquifer.

16. Deciduous trees are also evergreen.

Correct Answer: B) False.

17. An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.

Correct Answer: A) Watershed.

18. A quarry could also be called

Correct Answer: A) An open pit.

19. This sphere is composed of all the living things

Correct Answer: C) Biosphere.

20. Leaking gasoline tank are an example of

Correct Answer: A) Point-source pollution.