This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Environmental Sciences – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Sciences Quiz 92 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The humane care and treatment of animals by providing adequate housing, sanitation, nutrition, water, and veterinary care is called: A) Animal welfare. B) Animal rights. C) Pet ownership. D) Livestock ownership. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Animal welfare. 2. Which is not a factor that influences daily weather? A) Heat. B) Air pressure. C) Elevation. D) Moisture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elevation. 3. A forest protection plan guides a landowner who A) Wants to keep their forest as a natural area. B) Wants to cut some of their trees every few years as they mature. C) Wants to improve the quality of their woodland. D) Wants to make a forest where there currently isn't one. E) Wants to make sure that their forest is protected from fire, insects, grazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Wants to make sure that their forest is protected from fire, insects, grazing. 4. The 'outputs' of a chemical reaction. Located on the right side of a chemical equation. A) Products. B) Reactants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Products. 5. Transportation systems, communication systems, water services, power supplies, and schools are all examples of A) Infrastructure. B) Rural areas. C) Ecological footprints. D) Land use. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infrastructure. 6. A species with a restricted tolerance for environmental conditions is A) A specialist. B) A generalist. C) An autotroph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A specialist. 7. Product made from the refining of crude oil A) Net energy. B) Coal. C) Petrochemical. D) Commercial energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrochemical. 8. Symbiosis is a close relationship between two species in which at least one species A) Benefits. B) Is killed. C) Is harmed. D) Is unaffected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benefits. 9. The removal and transport of surface material by water and wind is known as A) Corrosion. B) Erosion. C) Repetition. D) Salinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erosion. 10. Which period in time impacted the environment with deforestation?Deforestation is the action of clearing a wide area of trees. A) Hunter-gatherer period. B) Agricultural revolution. C) Industrial revolution. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agricultural revolution. 11. What is a way hunter gatherers affected their environment? A) Introduced new farming practices. B) Killed Animals. C) Changed Landscape. D) Killed Animals and Changed Landscape. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Killed Animals and Changed Landscape. 12. What type of system is Earth? A) Layered. B) Related. C) Compressed. D) Integrated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Integrated. 13. Mr. Varner brings in his famous home made cookies to share with the class. He hands the plate to students in the first row and tells everyone they can take as much as they want, and then pass the plate along ..... however by the time the plate makes it to you, all of the cookies have been taken. This is an example of ..... A) Predator vs prey relationship. B) Overpopulation. C) Tragedy of the commons. D) Why I don't like my classmates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy of the commons. 14. Which of the following terms includes all of the others? A) Natural capital. B) Natural resources. C) Natural services. D) Natural cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural services. 15. What is an example of a nonrenewable resource? A) Water. B) Trees. C) Paper. D) Fossil Fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil Fuels. 16. Which is a consequence of an increase in greenhouse gases? A) Ice caps freezing. B) Global cooling. C) Sea levels rising. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sea levels rising. 17. The conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas is called what? A) Nitrification. B) Renitrification. C) Denitrification. D) Unnitrification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denitrification. 18. The primary source of radon is A) Electronics. B) Indoor fires. C) Household chemical fumes. D) Rocks and soils. E) Construction materials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rocks and soils. 19. An important effect that hunter-gatherer societies may have had on the environment was A) Soil erosion. B) Extinction. C) Air pollution. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 20. Which of the following statements BEST describes nuclear fusion? A) Nuclear fusion is a common source of energy. B) Nuclear fusion usually requires freezing temperatures. C) Nuclear fusion usually requires a high-temperature environment. D) Nuclear fusion releases a small amount of energy compared to mostchemical reactions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuclear fusion usually requires a high-temperature environment. ← 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