This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > Environmental Science – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Match The Definition: An area of land where all water that drains off goes into a river, river system, or other body of water. A) Watershed. B) Hybrid vehicle. C) Nonpoint source. D) Ozone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Watershed. 2. Ecologists use similarities between ecosystems to classify them into broad categories called A) Biomes. B) Littoral zones. C) Estuaries. D) Benthic zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biomes. 3. What is NOT a sustainable practice? A) Recycling. B) Reducing. C) Reusing. D) Buying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buying. 4. Percentage of scientists that agree climate change is real and caused by humans A) 10%. B) 45%. C) 70%. D) 97%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 97%. 5. Compare carnivores from herbivores. A) Carnivores eat grass, herbivores eat meat. B) Carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants. C) Carnivores eat people, herbivores don't. D) The both eat meat and plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants. 6. Before the Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution many of the people lived as A) Hunters-gatherers. B) Aristocrats. C) Factory Workers. D) Laborers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hunters-gatherers. 7. Natural material formed at a much slower rate than it is depleted A) Recycle. B) Renewable resources. C) Nonrenewable resources. D) Ecology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonrenewable resources. 8. What is a trophic level? A) Each level represented within a food chain or web. B) Levels of ecosystems that the world is divided into. C) Different levels of nutrients present within an organism. D) The levels of sunlight an autotroph needs to survive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Each level represented within a food chain or web. 9. This is the measure of the amount of salts dissolved A) Estuary. B) Flood plain. C) Salt marshes. D) Salinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salinity. 10. What is something we do daily that does NOT affect our ecological footprint? A) Taking a shower. B) Driving to school. C) Blowdrying your hair. D) Change your clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change your clothes. 11. The portion of the Earth's atmosphere closest to us is known as the: A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Exosphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 12. The lithosphere includes all but A) Rocks. B) Mountains. C) Lava. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plants. 13. Energy resources such as fossil fuels must be transported to power stations before they can be used to generate electricity. The transportation significantly adds to the cost of power production. How is the cost of transportation reduced in geothermal power stations? A) The power stations are built along with thermal power stations. B) The power stations are built close to the hot springs. C) Plastic pipes, which are cheaper than metal pipes, are used to pipe steam. D) The power stations are built close to the cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The power stations are built along with thermal power stations. 14. What is perhaps the biggest environmental issue we are faced with today is A) Empathy. B) Sympathy. C) Telepathy. D) Apathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apathy. 15. The majority of marine organisms are found in A) Deep ocean waters. B) Shallow, coastal waters. C) Fisheries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shallow, coastal waters. 16. "A testable idea that attempts to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question " is the definition of a(n) A) Prediction. B) Hypothesis. C) Theory. D) Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 17. Kepler's second law or the equal area law states that the closer a planet is to the sun the ..... it travels. A) Faster. B) Slower. C) Higher. D) Lower. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faster. 18. Prescribed burns are fires that A) Caused by lightning. B) Set by humans. C) Never get out of control. D) Increase the risk of injury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Set by humans. 19. Potable water means..... A) Water which comes straight from a river or reservoir. B) Water containing bacteria. C) Water which is safe to drink. D) Water which contains a high concentration of salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water which is safe to drink. 20. What are the two main types of freshwater wetlands? A) Lakes and ponds. B) Rivers and streams. C) Littoral zones and benthic zones. D) Marshes and swamps. 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