This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > Environmental Science – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is a health problem directly connected to air pollution? A) Cancer. B) Hearing loss. C) Asthma. D) Sun burn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asthma. 2. How large has the Human population has increased in the past 150 years A) 1 million people. B) 1billion people. C) 7.8 billion people. D) 20 billion people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7.8 billion people. 3. ..... are broader explanations that apply to a wider range of situation and observations. A) Theories. B) Prediction. C) Variable. D) Ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theories. 4. Possible long-term effect of noise pollution A) Nausea. B) Lung cancer. C) Deafness. D) Pollution control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deafness. 5. In the US, more coal is used for ..... than for any other use. A) Making chemicals. B) Heating buildings. C) Making steel. D) Generating electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Generating electricity. 6. 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. 7. Nitrous oxides enter the atmosphere from ..... A) Fossil fuels. B) Meteorites. C) Ozone depletion. D) CFC's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fossil fuels. 8. Which major category of water use would include watering grain to feed to livestock? A) Personal. B) Agricultural. C) Industrial. D) Electrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agricultural. 9. 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. 10. 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) Environmental ethics. B) Global warming. C) Environmental science. D) Ecological footprint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecological footprint. 11. 3-3.4 An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. A) Consumer. B) Producer. C) Decomposer. D) Detriov. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumer. 12. The study of how living things interact with each other and their non-living environment A) Environmental science. B) Ecology. C) Biology. D) Zoology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecology. 13. 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. 14. After a catastrophe, soil formation is the first step in A) Primary succession. B) Secondary succession. C) A climax community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary succession. 15. An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. In this investigation, what is the dependent variable? A) Type of plant. B) Water, apple juice, milk. C) Plant growth. D) Color of the plant's leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plant growth. 16. The largest population size a given environment can sustainably support is known as its A) Limiting capacity. B) Logistic limit. C) Carrying capacity. D) Biotic potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carrying capacity. 17. Which of the following is an example of how biomass fuel is currently being used? A) Biogas digesters ferment manure and produce methane. B) Dung fired power stations produce electricity. C) Ethanol from fermenting corn is added to gasoline. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 18. Which two events in history attributed the population growth? A) Agriculture Revolution and Plague. B) Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution. C) Industrial Revolution and Plague. D) The burning of the Cuyahoga River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution. 19. How many species of living things are estimated to live on the planet? A) 1-2 million. B) 1-2 billion. C) 100, 000. D) 10-100 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10-100 million. 20. Convection causes huge slabs of rock to rise and sink slowly through Earth's mantle. The main heat source for this movement is A) Earth's mantle and core. B) Radiation from the sun. C) Friction produced by plate motions. D) Magma from Earth's crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth's mantle and core. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnvironmental Science Quiz 1Environmental Science Quiz 2Environmental Science Quiz 3Environmental Science Quiz 4Environmental Science Quiz 5Environmental Science Quiz 6Environmental Science Quiz 7Environmental Science Quiz 8Environmental Science Quiz 9Environmental Science Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books