This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 13 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Logging operations used to use a technique called clear-cutting, in which all of the trees in an area are cut down. This process will most likely lead to which type of water pollution? A) Toxic. B) Sediment. C) Nutrient. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sediment. 2. If one part of Eco-System is damaged, what happens? a) b) c) d) A) All of these. B) It has an impact on everything else in the eco-system. C) It completely destroys the eco-system. D) It doesn't have any impact on the Eco-system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It has an impact on everything else in the eco-system. 3. An organism that obtains energy by consuming plants. A) Omnivore. B) Herbivore. C) Carnivore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herbivore. 4. Substances that contaminate the environment and can harm people are ..... A) Pollutants. B) Germs. C) Siblings. D) Dirt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pollutants. 5. Which is a non renewable resource? A) Water. B) Biomass. C) Coal. D) Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coal. 6. The area of water that is drained by a river is known as a A) Surface water. B) Flood plain. C) Watershed. D) Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watershed. 7. What is a well-tested hypothesis that explains many scientific observations? A) Law. B) Principle. C) Theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory. 8. The most common population distribution in nature is: A) Clumped. B) Organized. C) Uniform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clumped. 9. An example of a biofuel is A) Minerals. B) Oil. C) Animal waste. D) Gasoline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Animal waste. 10. What big Effect did The Industrial Revolution have on the environment A) It used up a lot of natural resources leaving fewer resources for animals. B) Caused a large population boost of piggin habitats and homes. C) Stoped the need for factory. D) It started using coal, fossil fuels, and water sources as power, whichcauses pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It started using coal, fossil fuels, and water sources as power, whichcauses pollution. 11. The ethical belief that the ecosystem is more important than human needs is known as A) Anthropocentrism. B) Ecocentrism. C) Humancentrism. D) Envirocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecocentrism. 12. ..... are materials and energy resources found in nature that humans need to survive. A) Natural resources. B) Predictions. C) Renewable resources. D) Nonrenewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural resources. 13. What type of country is most likely to have a stable population? A) Developed. B) Developing. C) Least Developed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Developed. 14. This term describes a group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic and biotic conditions. A) Estuary. B) Latitudinal gradient. C) Biome. D) Climatograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biome. 15. A specific source of pollution is known as A) Water pollution. B) Point source. C) Non-point source. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point source. 16. One way that city planners put their decisions into practice is A) Ecological restoration. B) Urbanization. C) Sprawl. D) Zoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zoning. 17. Where are earthquakes most likely to occur? A) Where magma cools slowly beneath Earth's surface. B) Where Earth's seafloor is spreading into deep ocean trenches. C) Where Earth's lithosphere is in constant slow motion. D) Where Earth's tectonic plates are moving together. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where Earth's tectonic plates are moving together. 18. What is the process of runoff? A) A small amount of Precipitation not evaporated returns to streams, rivers, lakes. B) When a small amount of water turns into grounwater. C) A combination of preicipitation and evaporation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A small amount of Precipitation not evaporated returns to streams, rivers, lakes. 19. Which layer of the atmosphere do we live in? A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Tropsophere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropsophere. 20. To adopt a systematic, comprehensive, and ecological solid waste managementprogram that shall ensure the protection of public health and the environment. A) Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. B) Climate Change Act of 2009. C) Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978. D) Philippine Toxic Substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. 21. What do we mean when we refer to "commons" in environmental science? A) Shared personalities. B) Shared values. C) Shared classes. D) Shared resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shared resources. 22. Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This neither harms nor benefits the whales. What kind of relationship is this? A) Mutualism. B) Parasitism. C) Commensalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commensalism. 23. When carbon dioxide is absorbed by seawater, chemical reactions occur that reduce seawater pH, carbonate ion concentration, and saturation states of biologically important calcium carbonate minerals. A) Oceanography. B) Ocean aging. C) Coral bleaching. D) Ocean acidification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ocean acidification. 24. Which are the units used for Turbidity? A) Ppm. B) Ppb. C) MTU. D) NTU. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NTU. 25. A defense mechanism of an organism that use coloration to blend in with their environment often used by prey as disguise to hide themselves from their predator and used by predator to catch their prey without noticing them. A) Chemical defence. B) Mimicry. C) Camouflage. D) Technical defence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Camouflage. 26. What is groundwater? A) Water that fills space between rocks of Earth. B) Water found within a lake or pond. C) Water that is found in the ocean. D) Water that is evaporated from the surface of Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water that fills space between rocks of Earth. 27. To acknowledge the Philippines' vulnerability to climate change and the need forappropriate adaptation. A) Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. B) Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System of 1978. C) Philippine Water Act of 2004. D) Climate Change Act of 2009. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climate Change Act of 2009. 28. ..... is any structural or behavioral change that helps an organism survive in its particular environment A) Competition. B) Gene pool. C) Adaptation. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adaptation. 29. What is one disadvantage of using water power? A) Dams are expensive to build. B) It creates a lot of electricity. C) It is renewable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dams are expensive to build. 30. Which would be the impact on producers and consumers if the decomposers in an ecosystem suddenly disappeared? A) There will be an increase in atmospheric carbon. B) There will be a decreased amount of oxygen. C) There will be less nutrients available. D) There will be an excess amount of energy available. 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