This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 79 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 79 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is not one of the kingdoms of living things? A) Protists. B) Eubacteria. C) Protobacteria. D) Archaebacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protobacteria. 2. Area of land drained by a river A) Watershed. B) Recharge zone. C) Groundwater. D) River system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Watershed. 3. Who are etho logists A) Scientists who study bout ethos. B) Scientists who study about the behaviour of wild animls. C) Scientists who study about the behaviour of animals in a particular eco system. D) Scientists who study about the behaviour of plants and tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientists who study about the behaviour of wild animls. 4. Sustainable products and/or practices may include more overall initial costs that of non sustainable products and processes. Everyday choices contribute to a sustainable life style. They might include all BUT ONE listed here. A) Make informed choices and shift purchasing practices. B) Carpool or use public transportation. C) Reuse, recycle, compost waste. D) Eating a more meat based diet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eating a more meat based diet. 5. This diagram shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another. A) Energy Pyramid. B) Food Web. C) Ecosystem. D) Food Chain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Energy Pyramid. 6. Which best summarizes the water cycle? A) Water rises into the atmosphere and cools and condenses. B) Water rises from Earth's surface and falls as precipitation. C) Water evaporates from Earth's. D) W. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water evaporates from Earth's. 7. As rocks are broken down due to weathering they release this nutrient. A) Water. B) Carbon. C) Nitrogen. D) Phosphorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phosphorous. 8. What's the hottest layer of the Earths Atmosphere A) Friday. B) Ozone Layer. C) Exposphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermosphere. 9. Mistletoe grows on an oak tree in a forest ecosystem. The mistletoe gets all of its nutrients from the oak tree. This process is good for the mistletoe but hurts the tree. Which type of symbiotic relationship do the oak tree and mistletoe have? A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Parasitism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parasitism. 10. How has antibiotic resistance changed over time? A) It hasn't changed at all. B) Antibiotics are being made cheaply and bacteria are becoming more resistant. C) Humans are buying less antibiotics and becoming weaker. D) Bacteria are becoming more resistant to the antibiotics that are being perscribed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bacteria are becoming more resistant to the antibiotics that are being perscribed. 11. What is the main reason invasive species become invasive? A) They don't live long. B) They can't have babies in the new area. C) They can't eat anything in the new area. D) They don't have many predators in their new area. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They don't have many predators in their new area. 12. What does a wave carry? A) Boats. B) Matter. C) Energy. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy. 13. What is the most reliable source of information to use in an investigation? A) A magazine found in the school library. B) A pamphlet distributed at a local gas station. C) A university study found though a google search engine. D) Step by step instructions from a blog on social media. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A university study found though a google search engine. 14. Which of the following is bigger than a one liter (L)? A) One milliliter (mL). B) One kiloliter (kL). C) One centiliter (cL). D) One deciliter (dL). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One kiloliter (kL). 15. ALL of the Earth's water (oceans, lakes, and rivers, water in soil and beneath the earth's surface, snow cover, ice, and water vapor) is found in which sphere? A) "atmosphere". B) "biosphere". C) "hydrosphere". D) "lithosphere". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "hydrosphere". 16. Which organisms will most likely INCREASE in population if a disease that suddenly reduced the population of Texas horned lizards? A) Grasses and ants. B) Ants and grasshoppers. C) Grasshoppers and Texas Cottonmouths. D) Texas cottonmouths and red shouldered hawks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ants and grasshoppers. 17. Which of the following most effectively allows forests to recover from tree harvesting? A) Cutting only medium-sized or mature trees. B) Cutting all of the trees and then replanting the area with seedlings. C) Allowing the forest to reseed itself. D) Cutting only young trees and then replacing them with seedlings tagsSEV2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cutting only medium-sized or mature trees. 18. Water covers about ..... % of the earth. A) 50. B) 60. C) 70. D) 80. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 70. 19. Which of the following describes the role of bacteria in the nitrogen cycle? Nitrogen-fixing bacteria convert A) Protein into gas. B) Water into gas. C) Nitrogen gas into nitrogen that can be used by plants. D) Soil to gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen gas into nitrogen that can be used by plants. 20. A testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon is a(n) ..... A) Hypothesis. B) Theory. C) Law. D) Variable. 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