This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > Environmental Science – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following are varying conditions, nutrient levels and physical components which describe soils within biomes? A) Seasons. B) Climates. C) Temperatures. D) Soil characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soil characteristics. 2. Match The Definition: Pollution that comes from many different sources. A) Pollution prevention. B) Hybrid vehicle. C) Nonpoint source. D) Ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonpoint source. 3. Which of the following is not an environmental function of wetlands? A) Increasing runoff. B) Absorbing and removing pollutants from water. C) Trapping carbon that would otherwise be released into the air. D) Controlling floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increasing runoff. 4. Secondary succession is all of the following except ..... A) Occurs where there was an ecosystem before. B) Can start on bare rock. C) Can occur after a natural disaster. D) Starts with soil followed by the appearance of pioneer plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can start on bare rock. 5. Earth's earliest life forms appeared in the ..... A) Soil. B) Lava. C) Air. D) Oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oceans. 6. Global warming is due to A) Greenhouse gases. B) Nitric and sulfuric acids. C) CFCs. D) Ozone depletion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greenhouse gases. 7. Population density is .. A) Tbe arrangement of individuals in a space. B) The growth rate. C) The number of individuals per unit area or volume. D) The maximum number of offspring each member can produce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The number of individuals per unit area or volume. 8. Two historical events during which smog killed many citizen and made thousands sick..... A) Donora Fluoride Fog and London Smog. B) London Smog and Exxon Valdez. C) China Smog and Fluoride Fog. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donora Fluoride Fog and London Smog. 9. Which Worldview explains beliefs that humans should manage the Earth but in a more ethical and sustainable way? A) Planetary Management. B) Stewardship. C) Environmental Wisdom. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stewardship. 10. A group of parts that work together to achieve a goal. A) Matter. B) System. C) Conduction. D) Solar energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) System. 11. An increase in the pH of a lake would most likely indicate A) The lake suffers from acid shock. B) Calcium carbonate has been released into the lake. C) The area in which the lake is located suffers from acid percipitation. D) Higher than average sulfur oxide levels in the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium carbonate has been released into the lake. 12. ..... are natural resources that are naturally formed much more slowly than we use them. Once they are completely depleted, they are gone forever. A) Nonrenewable resources. B) Renewable resources. C) Ethics. D) Prediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonrenewable resources. 13. Human activities and natural events can have a large effect on populations, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. How does the growth of the human population into rural areas affect the environmental quality of the native ecosystem? A) Human population growth produces new resources that benefit the native ecosystems. B) Human population growth in rural areas help organisms evolve in order to survive in harsher urban environments. C) Human population growth in rural areas creates additional waste that is put back into the environment and lowers environmental quality. D) Human population growth in rural areas creates additional living areas for humans to populate, which would increase the value of the land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human population growth in rural areas creates additional waste that is put back into the environment and lowers environmental quality. 14. The atmosphere is? A) All of the rocks and minerals on or below the earths surface. B) Law regulating the releae of ollutants into the atmosphere. C) Green house gases. D) All living and nonliving things with which organisms interact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the rocks and minerals on or below the earths surface. 15. What type of symbiosis?* The Red-Chested cuckoo birds find an unattended robin nest, push out the robin eggs, and lay their eggs in the robin's nest, and leave.* Robin babies die and robin parents feed and take care of the cuckoo babies. A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predation. 16. Which of the following is an interaction in which both organisms are harmed (-/-)? A) Parasitism. B) Predation. C) Competition. D) Commensalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Competition. 17. Without the greenhouse effect Earth would be A) Much warmer. B) Much colder. C) About the same. D) Extremely variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Much colder. 18. There are limits to many of our ....., materials and energy sources provided by nature, that humans need to survive. A) Natural Resources. B) Ecology. C) Environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural Resources. 19. A carbon-containing fuel formed over millions of years from the remains of living things is called ..... A) Biodiversity. B) Environment. C) Fossil Fuel. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossil Fuel. 20. What will happen to fossil fuel reserves if humans continue to burn them? A) The fossil fuel reserves will be quickly resupplied and so humans will never run out. B) The fossil fuel reserves will be completely depleted, or totally used up. C) The fossil fuel reserves will stay underground. D) The fossil fuel reserves will definitely NOT turn into carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fossil fuel reserves will be completely depleted, or totally used up. ← 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