This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Global area experiencing physical water scarcity A) Northern Europe. B) Polar regions. C) South America. D) The Middle East and Northern Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Middle East and Northern Africa. 2. What are the steps of the scientific method in the correct order? A) Prediction, hypothesis, experiment, observations, conclusion. B) Imagining, observing, experimenting, hypothesis. C) Experiment, prediction, hypothesis, observation. D) Observation, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observation, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, conclusion. 3. Layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 4. ..... is the condition in which humans needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely at a standard of living similar to the current one A) Law of supply and demand. B) Conceptual model. C) Natural resources. D) Sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sustainability. 5. Which of the following is NOT true about chemistry? A) Can be applied to environmental science when studying living things. B) Can explain the changes organisms go through. C) Can explain the changes their environments go through. D) Is the study of matter and energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is the study of matter and energy. 6. According to the webquest we did in class, all of the following make biodiversity important except....., A) Gives us food. B) Give us oxygen. C) Give us medicine. D) Give us disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give us disease. 7. Which of the following are the basic units of matter? A) Compounds. B) Solutions. C) Atoms. D) Macromolecules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atoms. 8. Planet with "runaway greenhouse effect" A) Saturn. B) Venus. C) Mercury. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 9. What are our basic needs? A) Clothing, water, air. B) Food, air, clothing. C) Food, water, shelter. D) Music, money, interpetative dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food, water, shelter. 10. A factor in an experiment that can be changed. A) Variable. B) Control. C) Observation. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable. 11. Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as ..... A) A limiting measure. B) A limiting factor. C) Factorization. D) Materialization of precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A limiting factor. 12. A ..... includes all living and non-living things in an environment. A) Population. B) Niche. C) Abitotic. D) Ecosystem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ecosystem. 13. Phophates in laundry detergent causes what? A) Artificail eutrophication. B) Biomagnification. C) Point source pollution. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artificail eutrophication. 14. The rate at which producers convert radiant energy into chemical energy A) Trophic level. B) Net primary productivity. C) Gross primary productivity. D) Photosynthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gross primary productivity. 15. It consists the outer mantle of the solid earth. A) Lithosphere. B) Atmosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 16. A tapeworm inside a dog is A) Competition. B) Predation. C) Commensalism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parasitism. 17. Where weather occurs. A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 18. For most of human history people believed that the earth had ..... resources. A) Limited. B) Unlimited. C) Sparse. D) Not enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlimited. 19. Storage sites for nuclear wastes A) Can only be located only in mountain ranges. B) Will always leak lethal amounts of radioactivity. C) Should be located only in areas that are extremely geologically stable. D) Should be able to undergo the process of transmutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should be located only in areas that are extremely geologically stable. 20. A tick and a dog have this type of relationship. A) Mutualism. B) Commensalism. C) Neutralism. D) Parasitism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parasitism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnvironment 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books