This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT a type of renewable energy? A) Biomass. B) Solar. C) Deep geothermal. D) Entropy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entropy. 2. Who was Garret Hardin? A) Won the nobel prize in ecology. B) Father of Evolution. C) Author of pride & Prejudice. D) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. 3. Agricultural Revolution? A) Large cities where foods/goods where mass produced, causing pollution the environment. B) Small family groups who hunted and gathered their food, moving on before they used all the resources. C) Small communities who produced their own food, causing fragmentation of their environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small communities who produced their own food, causing fragmentation of their environment. 4. How would you describe the current trends in global human population? A) Exponential growth. B) Constant growth. C) Logistic growth. D) Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exponential growth. 5. Environmental decision making requires a balance between the needs of the people and what? A) The wants of the people. B) The needs of the environment. C) The location of the environment. D) The needs of the animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The needs of the environment. 6. Which of these words is analogous (similar in meaning) to pollution? A) Replenishment. B) Degradation. C) Improvement. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Degradation. 7. Which of the following is a natural source of air pollution? A) Factory Emissions. B) Burning Fossil Fuels. C) Vehicle Emissions. D) Volcanic Eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volcanic Eruptions. 8. Is a complex plant-supporting system made up of disintegrated rock, remains and wastes of organisms. A) Dirt. B) Soil. C) Soil profile. D) Bedrock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil. 9. Which zone of an aquatic ecosystem tend to have more life- both producers and consumers? A) Aphotic zone. B) Photic zone. C) Benthic zone. D) All have roughly the same amount of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photic zone. 10. Environmental science is a(an) ..... science because it uses knowledge to solve practical problems A) Overconsumption. B) Analysis. C) Ethics. D) Applied. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Applied. 11. The study of disease in human populations is A) Toxicology. B) A dose-response relationship. C) Epidemiology. D) Risk assessment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epidemiology. 12. Which is the least sustainable? A) All but the healthiest trees are cut down. B) The highest-value trees are cut down. C) The shade-intolerant trees are cut down. D) All of the trees are cut down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the trees are cut down. 13. The Montreal Protocol ..... A) Was established to protect the ozone from CFC's and other hazardous compounds. B) Was designed to protect the thermosphere from meteorites. C) Was designed to reduce the rate of cancer in the city of Montreal, Canada. D) Was a treaty designed to establish vehicle emissions to protect the troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was established to protect the ozone from CFC's and other hazardous compounds. 14. In a food chain involving a mouse and the snake that eats it, the mouse and snake are A) Both consumers. B) Consumer and decomposer. C) Producer and consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both consumers. 15. Is eutrophication caused by humans. A) Pollution. B) Artificial eutrophication. C) Point source pollution. D) Thermal pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial eutrophication. 16. Why is the ecosystem important? A) It can sustain overpopulation. B) It sustains the balance of life in nature. C) It allows humans to exploit natural resources. D) It can absorb all the toxins humans dispose of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It sustains the balance of life in nature. 17. The run-of-the-river approach to generating hydroelectric power A) Requires constructing of a dam. B) Takes advantage of a river's natural flow. C) Causes more extensive habitat destruction than the reservoir storage method does. D) Involves burning of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Takes advantage of a river's natural flow. 18. Which is a health problem directly connected to air pollution? A) Cancer. B) Asthma. C) Hearing loss. D) Sun burn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthma. 19. How large has the Human population has increased in the past 150 years A) 20 billion people. B) 7.8 billion people. C) 1 million people. D) 1billion people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7.8 billion people. 20. ..... are broader explanations that apply to a wider range of situation and observations. A) Theories. B) Ethics. C) Prediction. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theories. 21. Possible long-term effect of noise pollution A) Nausea. B) Pollution control. C) Deafness. D) Lung cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deafness. 22. In the US, more coal is used for ..... than for any other use. A) Heating buildings. B) Making chemicals. C) Generating electricity. D) Making steel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generating electricity. 23. Which pair below are the two main sources of air pollution in urban areas A) Vehicles and volcanoes. B) Vehicles and industries. C) Industries and agriculture. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vehicles and industries. 24. Nitrous oxides enter the atmosphere from ..... A) Meteorites. B) CFC's. C) Ozone depletion. D) Fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossil fuels. 25. Which major category of water use would include watering grain to feed to livestock? A) Electrical. B) Personal. C) Agricultural. D) Industrial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agricultural. 26. Which of the following is not a subsurface mining method? A) Quarrying. B) Solution mining. C) Long-wall mining. D) Room-and-pillar mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quarrying. 27. What do we call the environmental impact of an individual or population in terms of the total amount of land and water required (1) to provide the raw materials and the individual or population consumes and (2) to dispose of or recycle the waste the individual or population produces? A) Global warming. B) Environmental science. C) Ecological footprint. D) Environmental ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecological footprint. 28. 3-3.4 An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. A) Detriov. B) Consumer. C) Decomposer. D) Producer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consumer. 29. The study of how living things interact with each other and their non-living environment A) Zoology. B) Ecology. C) Biology. D) Environmental science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 30. Which laws work to prevent water pollution? A) Clean Air Act. B) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). C) Clean Water Act. D) Endangered Species Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clean Water Act. ← 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