This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Environment > General > Environmental Science – Quiz 59 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Environmental Science Quiz 59 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is one disadvantage of using wind power? A) It is renewable. B) The wind is everywhere. C) It is not always windy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is not always windy. 2. Many individuals of the same species living together in a defined area form ..... A) A population. B) A community. C) An ecosystem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A population. 3. Plant material, manure, and wood A) Biomass fuel. B) Fuel cell. C) Active solar heating. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biomass fuel. 4. What type of symbiosis?* The plover picks and eats scraps of meat from the crocodile's teeth.* The crocodile gets a free teeth-cleaning! A) Commensalism. B) Mutualism. C) Parasitism. D) Predation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mutualism. 5. Which of the following forms of renewable energy uses the sun's energy most directly? A) Biomass fuel. B) Passive solar heatin. C) Geothermal energy. D) A hydrogen fuel cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passive solar heatin. 6. The process of making sense of the results of an experiment is called ..... A) Variable. B) Analysis. C) Natural. D) Habitat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analysis. 7. What will reduce population growth? A) Decreasing literacy and women having more children. B) Starving some people and taking away necessities of life. C) More people in cities with large families. D) Increasing literacy, education, and access to healthcare as well as economic stability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increasing literacy, education, and access to healthcare as well as economic stability. 8. An area in which fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean A) Mangrove Swamp. B) Estuary. C) Marshes. D) Wetland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Estuary. 9. What type of urban pollution is a result of smoke and fog produced from industrial pollutants and fossil fuels? A) Acid rain. B) Smog. C) Ozone depletion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smog. 10. What layer of the atmosphere do we live in? A) Stratosphere. B) Troposphere. C) Ionosphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troposphere. 11. Radiation, conduction, and convection are the three main methods of A) Calculating relative humidity. B) Modeling climate. C) Measuring air pressure. D) Transferring heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transferring heat. 12. Since the year 2000, May 23 has been observed worldwide to bring attention and increase knowledge of a certain species of marine animal. These are reptiles under the order Testudines and are one of the oldest living animal groups, having lived alongside the early dinosaurs. Easily identifiable by the cartilaginous carapace they have, their biggest threat has been commercial fishing and destruction of habitat. What is May 23 observed as? A) World snake day. B) World fish day. C) World Turtle Day. D) World marine day. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World Turtle Day. 13. What is the definition of climate? A) The condition of the air around the Earth. B) The rainforest. C) The pattern of weather over time. D) How hot it is in a certain place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of weather over time. 14. Which of the following offers the greatest conservation of water? A) Center pivot sprinkler systems. B) LEPA sprinkler systems. C) Drip irrigation. D) Flood irrigation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drip irrigation. 15. Plants are A) Producers. B) Herbivores. C) Consumers. D) Omnivores. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producers. 16. An oil spill is an example of A) Point-source pollution. B) Nonpoint-source pollution. C) Reversible pollution. D) Natural pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point-source pollution. 17. An abiotic factor affecting another abiotic factor would be A) Rainfall causing erosion of a mountain. B) Rainfall giving water to an insect. C) A stone being pushed by an insect. D) The migration of birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rainfall causing erosion of a mountain. 18. What provides the raw material for adaptation to local conditions? A) Ecosystem diversity. B) Species diversity. C) Extirpation. D) Genetic diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genetic diversity. 19. Which of the following is a non-point source of water pollution? A) Effluent from a sewage treatment plant. B) BP refiner in Indiana discharging ammonia in a river. C) Runoff of pesticides from regional farms into the Illinois River. D) Hot water discharges from a nuclear power plant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Runoff of pesticides from regional farms into the Illinois River. 20. Time it takes carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to disperse A) 1 day. B) 1 year. C) 10 years. D) 100 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100 years. ← 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