Environmental Science Quiz

How many main goals of environmental science are there?

• 2

• 3

• 4

A female scientist is studying the effects of acid rain on Mt. Pulag. She collects rainwater in the area for sampling. She is most likely:

• An environmental scientist

• A meteorologist

• A chemical engineer

Which of the following fields are incorporated into environmental science?

• Biology

• Geology

• Chemistry

• All of the above

An environment is

• All the factors and conditions that an organism lives

• The study of ecology

• The biological organisms that inhabit an area

An ecosystem is composed of what?

• The populations of all species and all abiotic factors within a geographical area

• All biotic factors within a geographical area

• All of the individual organisms belonging to the same species within a geographical area

Which of the following is true about all environments?

• An environment must be strictly abiotic

• An environment includes factors such as temperature, light, water, air, soil, and nutrients that surround an organism.

• An environment can not be changed by organisms living in it

Environments include relationships between living and _________things

• Symbiosis

• Non-living

• Population

What is nature

• Everything in your physical world not made by people

• Everything in your physical world made by people

• Everything in your physical world made by animals

Which of the following is an example of an abiotic component in an ecosystem?

• A. Grass

• B. Earthworm

• C. Sunlight

• D. Mushroom

An interdisciplinary study of human interaction with living and non- living parts of their environment is _____________.

• Earth Science

• Environmental Science

• Biology

• Chemistry