This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 91 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 91 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Cannot easily be traced to the source of the pollution. A) Point Source Pollution. B) Non-point source pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-point source pollution. 2. What do you call the part of the investigation that the scientist is measuring? A) Control. B) Independent variable. C) Dependent variable. D) Constant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dependent variable. 3. Nitrogen is an essential component A) Amino acids and proteins. B) Organic molecules. C) Sugars, the product of photosynthesis. D) Carbohydrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amino acids and proteins. 4. One reason polluted groundwater pollution is difficult to clean is that A) The location of underground storage tanks is not always known. B) Pollutants cling to the materials that make up aquifers. C) Runoff contaminates the water supply. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollutants cling to the materials that make up aquifers. 5. Early observers thought continents may have been joined based on what observations A) Rocks and fossils. B) Earthquakes. C) Magnetism. D) Coastline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coastline. 6. There are two types of data. Which type of data involves numbers that are obtained by counting or measuring? A) Quantitative. B) Qualitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quantitative. 7. Extinctions are a natural process and have occurred multiple times during Earth's long history, such as the one that ended the Mesozoic Era and the extinction of dinosaurs. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Tragedy of the Commons occurred because there was a/an A) Absence of regulation. B) Presence of regulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absence of regulation. 9. Exhaustion of resources due to unsustainable consumption. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. The flow of heat from a warmer object to a colder object when the objects are placed in direct physical contact A) Convection. B) Conduction. C) Evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conduction. 11. Energy Resources. Pick the ODD ONE OUT. * A) Coal. B) Petroleum. C) Fossil Fuel. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biomass. 12. What would NOT make an energy resource with a low net energy more competitive in the marketplace A) Subsidies. B) Tax breaks. C) Full-cost pricing. D) Technology improvements. E) Affordable pricing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Full-cost pricing. 13. In a proper experiment, how many variables should be changed at a time? A) One. B) None. C) Two or more. D) How ever many makes sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 14. Which of the following rocks is formed by regional metamorphism? A) Basalt. B) Gneiss. C) Hornfels. D) Andesite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gneiss. 15. Liquid matter takes the shape of ..... A) Gas. B) Water. C) A pet. D) Its container. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Its container. 16. Which of the following is a sink for carbon? A) Ocean. B) Rock. C) Fossil Fuels. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil Fuels. 17. Which of the following ecological levels of organization are arranged from largest to smallest? A) Ecosystem, population, community. B) Biosphere, ecosystem, community. C) Community, population, ecosystem. D) Biosphere, population, ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere, ecosystem, community. 18. Groundwater is stored in underwater reservoirs called ..... A) Gaseous Water. B) Water CAves. C) Aquifers. D) Groundwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aquifers. 19. Smaller streams or rivers that flow into larger ones A) Surface currents. B) Tectonic plates. C) Salinity. D) Tributaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tributaries. 20. Succession is the process of change in a community:*In primary succession the process starts with bare rock and its pioneer species are- A) Weeds and Grasses. B) Large Trees. C) Lichen and Moss. D) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lichen and Moss. ← 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