This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 32 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Disease causing organisms and viruses are known as ..... A) Pathogens. B) Forms of chemical pollution. C) Forms of thermal pollution. D) Helpful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathogens. 2. Energy from sources that are constantly being formed. A) Alternate energy. B) Hydroelectric energy. C) Geothermal energy. D) Renewable energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Renewable energy. 3. What is a major disadvantage of using nuclear power to generate electricity? A) A small amount of power is produced. B) No greenhouse gases are produced. C) The power plants are inexpensive to build. D) The by-product of nuclear power is radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The by-product of nuclear power is radiation. 4. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of hydrogen as a source of energy? A) It usually produces few pollutants. B) Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. C) It can be stored and transported. D) It is inexpensive to produce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is inexpensive to produce. 5. ..... is the variety of life on Earth A) Biodiversity. B) Ethics. C) Theory. D) Built. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biodiversity. 6. Name the levels of ecological organization A) Biocentrism, ecocentrism, anthropocentrism. B) Population, pie, individual, together. C) Biome, ecosystem, community, population, individual. D) Together, poplutation, science, mehh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biome, ecosystem, community, population, individual. 7. The ..... variable is the result of an experiment, and is measured by the scientist. A) Independent. B) Dependent. C) Control. D) Constant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependent. 8. The accumulation, sharing of knowledge A) Environmental value. B) Ethical/moral value. C) Educational value. D) Recreational value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Educational value. 9. The place where an organism lives A) Natural environment. B) Habitat. C) Built environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habitat. 10. The variety of organisms living in an an environment refers to its A) Biodiversity. B) Risk Assessment. C) Law of Supply and Demand. D) Habitat Loss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biodiversity. 11. Which of the following is the management and enforcement of standards, usually controlled by various levels of government bureaucracy? A) Regulation. B) Legislation. C) Management. D) Local government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regulation. 12. 3-7.4 Which human activity contributes the most carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? A) Fishing. B) Breathing. C) Burning fossil fuels. D) Farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burning fossil fuels. 13. What is one of the main concerns related to the increase of waste materials humans put back into the environment? A) Creating too much pollution. B) Using waste as compost or biofuel. C) Clearing forests for land development. D) Monetary cost of trash disposal in landfills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creating too much pollution. 14. The difference between biotic and abiotic is A) Biotic is anything that is or was alive. B) Abiotic is anything that is or was alive. C) Biotic is anything that is or never was alive. D) Abiotic is anything that is dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic is anything that is or was alive. 15. The human population experienced exponential growth just after A) Agriculture began. B) Plowing and irrigation began. C) The bubonic plague began. D) The Industrial Revolution began. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Industrial Revolution began. 16. Group of individuals or events selected to represent the population A) Stats. B) Risks. C) Sample. D) Population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sample. 17. Several of the least expensive ways to achieve a sustainable lifestyle would include: A) Using only renewable energy sources. B) Employing water conservation and recycling, bicycling, and eating local produce. C) Recycling, water conservation, and purchasing carbon offsets. D) Using tidal and solar energy, recycling, and water conservation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Employing water conservation and recycling, bicycling, and eating local produce. 18. What adaptation prevents phytoplankton from sinking into deep waters? A) Whiskers. B) Tentacles. C) Flagella. D) Streamlined body shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flagella. 19. Meaning all forms of life have an inherent right to exist. A) Ecofeminism. B) Biocentrism. C) Biodiversity. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biocentrism. 20. What is the process of making sense of the results of an experiment? A) Publication. B) Analysis. C) Communication. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analysis. 21. What is the average Salinity in the Ocean? A) 35/100 (parts per). B) 35/1000 parts per). C) 10/35 parts per). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 35/1000 parts per). 22. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary area of the study that deals with all of the following except. A) Politics. B) Economics. C) Ethics. D) All of these are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are correct. 23. ..... is when an area is disturbed due by a natural disaster (forest fire) all of the plants return in a very specific order. A) Primary Succession. B) Climax Community. C) Ecological Succession. D) Secondary Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ecological Succession. 24. The maintenance of human conditions, their values, and their traditions A) Recreational value. B) Ethical/moral value. C) Educational value. D) Social/cultural value. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social/cultural value. 25. This renewable resource is often captured by large panels on rooftops. A) Solar Energy. B) Biomass. C) Wind Energy. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar Energy. 26. Where rivers flow into the ocean, mixing fresh water with saltwater, brackish ecosystems occur which are called A) Bogs. B) Flood plains. C) Estuaries. D) Limnetic zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Estuaries. 27. How do we calculate biodiversity A) Number of different species/ number of different species. B) Number of different species/ total number of organisms. C) Total number of organisms/ total number of organisms. D) Total number of organisms/ number of different species. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Number of different species/ total number of organisms. 28. Which of the following is NOT protected or managed by regulation? A) Technology. B) Native habitat. C) Plants and animals. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technology. 29. Any substance that human activity releases to the environment that is harmful to human health or the health/functioning of an ecosystem. A) Water. B) Nonrenewable resources. C) Pollution. D) Solar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pollution. 30. Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact is called A) Natural resources. B) Natural world. C) Environment. D) Renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Environment. ← 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