This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 72 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 72 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Small consumers that are hunted and eaten by larger consumers A) Producer. B) Prey. C) Predator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prey. 2. What are some chemicals found hazards that can be found indoors? A) Water. B) Sunlight. C) Fresh air. D) Formaldehyde, radon, asbestos, lead, and carbon monoxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Formaldehyde, radon, asbestos, lead, and carbon monoxide. 3. What do you call it when one species benefits while the other species is harmed? A) Competition. B) Predation. C) Parasitism. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 4. The largest part of the Earth is the A) Biosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Geosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geosphere. 5. Crop rotation improves A) Badgers. B) Soil nutrient levels. C) The farmer having to plough. D) Water pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil nutrient levels. 6. Conflicts that arise from sharing resources are described by A) Hunter-gatherer period. B) Industrial Revolution. C) The Tragedy of the Commons. D) Agricultural revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tragedy of the Commons. 7. Avoid extra flushes in the toilet A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Northern coniferous forest that stretches in a broad band across the Northern Hemisphere A) Savanna. B) The obi. C) Desert. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The obi. 9. The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of heat being radiated to space is called A) Evaporation. B) Condensation. C) The greenhouse effect. D) Radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The greenhouse effect. 10. What symbiotic relationship is seen in the picture below with lichens growing and feeding on a tree and the tree not being harmed or receiving a benefit. A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 11. This is an accumulation of salt in the topsoil A) Waterlogging. B) Salinization. C) Saltification. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salinization. 12. What type of sediment tends to be the most impermeable? A) Sand. B) Clay. C) Silt. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clay. 13. What is the global warming potential of F-gasses compared to CO2? A) 1, 000 times greater. B) 5, 000 times greater. C) 10, 000 times greater. D) 23, 000 times greater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 23, 000 times greater. 14. Which central Asian body of water has shrunk drastically as a result of irrigation? A) The Aral Sea. B) The Dead Sea. C) The Red Sea. D) The Salton Sea. E) The Black Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Aral Sea. 15. Ecosystem services are services that are supplied by a healthy ecosystem for free to help and support human life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Humans have the ability to cause temperature change. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Lands managed by agencies of the government A) National Parks. B) National Rivers. C) Public Lands. D) Restricted-use Lands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public Lands. 18. In an Ecological Pyramid, which of the following would be at the bottom? A) Producers. B) Primary Consumers. C) Secondary Consumers. D) Tertiary Consumers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producers. 19. The majority of earth's surface is covered by what? A) Land. B) Salt water. C) Fresh water. D) Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salt water. 20. Boundary between warm and cold water in an ocean or a lake A) Fault. B) Ozone. C) Tetonic plates. D) Surface currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tetonic plates. ← 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