This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 10 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where weather occurs. A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 2. For most of human history people believed that the earth had ..... resources. A) Sparse. B) Limited. C) Unlimited. D) Not enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unlimited. 3. Storage sites for nuclear wastes A) Can only be located only in mountain ranges. B) Will always leak lethal amounts of radioactivity. C) Should be located only in areas that are extremely geologically stable. D) Should be able to undergo the process of transmutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should be located only in areas that are extremely geologically stable. 4. A tick and a dog have this type of relationship. A) Neutralism. B) Mutualism. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parasitism. 5. Which is an example of sustainable development for a new building? A) Recycled and. B) Renewable resources. C) Reused materials. D) All choices are good examples. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All choices are good examples. 6. Approximately how many people are there in the world? A) 100 billion. B) 100 million. C) 7 billion. D) 1 billion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7 billion. 7. Which layer of the atmosphere does all weather occur? A) Exosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Troposphere. 8. What is an invasive specie? A) An organism that moves around. B) An organism that causes ecological or economic benefits in a new environment where it is not native. C) An organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native. D) An organism that is native to an area. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native. 9. Term for when global warming is accelerated reduction of snow and ice cover. A) Negative induction. B) Intermittent paralysis. C) Mitigating circumstances. D) Positive feedback loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive feedback loop. 10. VOCABULARY: An organism not native to an ecosystem and causes it harm. A) Ecology. B) Predation. C) Keystone Species. D) Invasive Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Invasive Species. 11. The word "science" derives from a Latin word meaning A) To gather. B) To know or understand. C) Question ing. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To know or understand. 12. The types of organisms found in a pond or lake depend on A) The amount of sunlight available. B) The temperature of the water. C) The presence of nutrients. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Using more resources than the environment can support is known as ..... A) Exessive use. B) Over consumption. C) Wasteful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over consumption. 14. Which of the following pieces of federal legislation established a program for regulating coal mining on public and private lands? A) The Comprehensive Response and Liability Act. B) The Clean Air Act. C) The Clean Water Act. D) The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. 15. The 0 degree line of latitude is the ..... A) Prime Meridian. B) Equator. C) Contour line. D) International Date Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equator. 16. ..... is the study of how living things interact with biotic and abiotic factors in their environment. A) Environmental Science. B) Ecology. C) Physics. D) Geology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 17. Which layer is the outermost layer? A) Mesosphere. B) Exosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exosphere. 18. 3-3.4 An organism that uses an outside source of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules. A) Consumer. B) Decomposer. C) Producer. D) Parasite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Producer. 19. Which of the following is a limiting factor in a population of organisms. A) Fluctuations in atmospheric temperature. B) Availability of food. C) Reproductive replacement. D) Life spans of the members. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Availability of food. 20. What is the source of all energy? A) Consumers. B) Producers. C) Sun. D) Decomposers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 21. 4-2.5 Succession that occurs in an area with NO SOIL A) Pioneer speciles. B) Primary succession. C) Ecological succession. D) Secondary succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary succession. 22. Which of the following is a renewable and non-renewable source of valuables available for human use? A) Technology. B) Energy. C) Entertainment. D) Rainstorms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy. 23. Areas nearest a river's course that are flooded periodically are said to be within the river's A) Estuary. B) Flood plain. C) Wetland. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flood plain. 24. How a population changes in size during a specific period of time..... A) Growth rate. B) Infant mortality. C) Death rate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growth rate. 25. What is the percentage of energy that is passed up from each trophic level (in a food pyramid)? A) 90%. B) 80%. C) 10%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10%. 26. Which of these events during the modern environmentalism era raised awareness of the problem of hazardous waste disposal? A) Nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. B) The Donora fluoride smog. C) Love Canal. D) The burning of the Cuyahoga River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love Canal. 27. Which of the following statements best describes the composition of air? A) Air is only made up of nitrogen. B) Air is only made up of carbon dioxide. C) Air is made up of a mixture of different gasses. D) Air is only made up of oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Air is made up of a mixture of different gasses. 28. Deterioration of the soil's fertility and ability to provide ecosystem services is called A) Soil pollution. B) Soil degradation. C) Erssion. D) Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil degradation. 29. About every 2-7 years, winds weakening in the western pacific ocean cause warm surface water in Australia and Indonesia to move eastward toward North and South America. This changing wind pattern that impacts weather is known as ..... A) Acid rain. B) El Nino. C) Baby Jesus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) El Nino. 30. Which of the following might occur as a result of plastic trash accumulating in the ocean? A) Turtles mistake clear plastic bags for jellyfish, ingest them, and die of intestinal blockage. B) Sea mammals, such as seals, become tangled in clear plastic fishing lines and drown. C) All of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnvironment QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesEnvironmental Science Quiz 1Environmental Science Quiz 2Environmental Science Quiz 3Environmental Science Quiz 4Environmental Science Quiz 5Environmental Science Quiz 6Environmental Science Quiz 7Environmental Science Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books