This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > Environmental Science – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 49 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is the management and enforcement of standards, usually controlled by various levels of government bureaucracy? A) Legislation. B) Management. C) Local government. D) Regulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regulation. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. The difference between biotic and abiotic is A) Biotic is anything that is or was alive. B) Biotic is anything that is or never was alive. C) Abiotic is anything that is dead. D) Abiotic is anything that is or was alive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biotic is anything that is or was alive. 5. 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. 6. Group of individuals or events selected to represent the population A) Sample. B) Population. C) Risks. D) Stats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sample. 7. 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. 8. What adaptation prevents phytoplankton from sinking into deep waters? A) Whiskers. B) Streamlined body shape. C) Flagella. D) Tentacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flagella. 9. Meaning all forms of life have an inherent right to exist. A) Biodiversity. B) Ecology. C) Ecofeminism. D) Biocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biocentrism. 10. 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. 11. 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). 12. 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. 13. ..... 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) Secondary Succession. C) Climax Community. D) Ecological Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecological Succession. 14. The maintenance of human conditions, their values, and their traditions A) Ethical/moral value. B) Recreational value. C) Social/cultural value. D) Educational value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social/cultural value. 15. This renewable resource is often captured by large panels on rooftops. A) Wind Energy. B) Solar Energy. C) Geothermal. D) Biomass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar Energy. 16. 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. 17. How do we calculate biodiversity A) Total number of organisms/ number of different species. B) Total number of organisms/ total number of organisms. C) Number of different species/ total number of organisms. D) Number of different species/ number of different species. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Number of different species/ total number of organisms. 18. 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. 19. Any substance that human activity releases to the environment that is harmful to human health or the health/functioning of an ecosystem. A) Pollution. B) Nonrenewable resources. C) Water. D) Solar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pollution. 20. Includes all the living and nonliving things with which organisms interact is called A) Environment. B) Natural world. C) Natural resources. D) Renewable resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Environment. ← 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