This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Are federally-managed, but do allow commercial logging and recreational hunting and fishing. A) National Parks. B) National Forests. C) National Wildlife Refuges. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) National Forests. 2. Factor in an experiment that is tested or changed. A) Independent variable. B) Dependent variable. C) Control group. D) Experimental group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independent variable. 3. Less-Developed Counties are..... A) Industrialized with low average income. B) Are less economically developed and have a less average income. C) US and Canada. D) Most European countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are less economically developed and have a less average income. 4. Which of the following is NOT a type of renewable energy? A) Biomass. B) Solar. C) Deep geothermal. D) Entropy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entropy. 5. Who was Garret Hardin? A) Author of pride & Prejudice. B) Father of Evolution. C) Won the nobel prize in ecology. D) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author of the essay Tragedy of the Commons. 6. Agricultural Revolution? A) Large cities where foods/goods where mass produced, causing pollution the environment. B) Small family groups who hunted and gathered their food, moving on before they used all the resources. C) Small communities who produced their own food, causing fragmentation of their environment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small communities who produced their own food, causing fragmentation of their environment. 7. How would you describe the current trends in global human population? A) Logistic growth. B) Exponential growth. C) Equilibrium. D) Constant growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exponential growth. 8. Environmental decision making requires a balance between the needs of the people and what? A) The location of the environment. B) The needs of the environment. C) The needs of the animals. D) The wants of the people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The needs of the environment. 9. Which of these words is analogous (similar in meaning) to pollution? A) Degradation. B) Improvement. C) Replenishment. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Degradation. 10. Which of the following is a natural source of air pollution? A) Burning Fossil Fuels. B) Volcanic Eruptions. C) Factory Emissions. D) Vehicle Emissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volcanic Eruptions. 11. Is a complex plant-supporting system made up of disintegrated rock, remains and wastes of organisms. A) Dirt. B) Soil. C) Bedrock. D) Soil profile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil. 12. Which zone of an aquatic ecosystem tend to have more life- both producers and consumers? A) Aphotic zone. B) Photic zone. C) Benthic zone. D) All have roughly the same amount of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photic zone. 13. Environmental science is a(an) ..... science because it uses knowledge to solve practical problems A) Overconsumption. B) Applied. C) Analysis. D) Ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Applied. 14. The study of disease in human populations is A) Epidemiology. B) Toxicology. C) A dose-response relationship. D) Risk assessment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epidemiology. 15. Which is the least sustainable? A) All but the healthiest trees are cut down. B) The highest-value trees are cut down. C) The shade-intolerant trees are cut down. D) All of the trees are cut down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the trees are cut down. 16. The Montreal Protocol ..... A) Was established to protect the ozone from CFC's and other hazardous compounds. B) Was designed to protect the thermosphere from meteorites. C) Was designed to reduce the rate of cancer in the city of Montreal, Canada. D) Was a treaty designed to establish vehicle emissions to protect the troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was established to protect the ozone from CFC's and other hazardous compounds. 17. In a food chain involving a mouse and the snake that eats it, the mouse and snake are A) Both consumers. B) Consumer and decomposer. C) Producer and consumer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both consumers. 18. Is eutrophication caused by humans. A) Thermal pollution. B) Artificial eutrophication. C) Point source pollution. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial eutrophication. 19. Why is the ecosystem important? A) It can sustain overpopulation. B) It sustains the balance of life in nature. C) It allows humans to exploit natural resources. D) It can absorb all the toxins humans dispose of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It sustains the balance of life in nature. 20. The run-of-the-river approach to generating hydroelectric power A) Requires constructing of a dam. B) Takes advantage of a river's natural flow. C) Causes more extensive habitat destruction than the reservoir storage method does. D) Involves burning of fossil fuels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Takes advantage of a river's natural flow. ← 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