WorksheetsEnvironmental Science Quiz
Total questions: 105
Worksheet time: 53mins
The relative warming potential of is approximately 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Nitrous oxide
Methane
CFC
Argon
The boundary between troposphere and stratosphere is called.
Mesopause
Stratopause
Tropopuase
Thermopause
The rocks formed by cooling and solidification of molten rock material such as magma (e.g. basalt) are called rocks.
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
All of above
If the sources of pollution are not specific, multiple and unidentifiable then it is called.
Point source pollution
Non-point source pollution
Single source pollution
Mega pollution
A resource that cannot be replaced quickly by natural processes is called.
Renewable resource
Useful resource
Non-renewable resource
Depleted resource
Enrichment of water bodies with nitrates and phosphates (inorganic nutrients) is known as.
Algal blooms
Plant proliferation
Eutrophication
Natural attenuation
The study of the interaction of living organisms and the natural environment is called.
Agronomy
Soil Science
Ecology
Pathology
The term for all the species of living organisms in a region or ecosystem at a specific time is called.
Biodiversity
Population
Environment
Regional
Green House effect refers to.
Cooling of earth
Trapping of UV rays
Warming of earth
Cultivation of plants
Which gas is mainly responsible for global warming.
CO2
SO2
N2
CH4
The term green revolution was coined by.
M.S. Swaminathan
Chares Elton
William Gaud
E.Odum
A species restricted to a given area is.
Endemic species
Allopatric species
Sympatric species
Sibling species
IUCN Stands for.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
International Union Council for Nature
International Union council for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
The following is the correct food chain of an aquatic ecosystem.
Phytoplankton →Zooplankton →Fish →Bird → Vulture
Phytoplankton→ Fish→Zooplankton → Bird→ Vulture
Zooplankton→Phytoplankton→ Vulture→ Fish→ Bird
Fish→ Zooplankton→Phytoplankton→ Bird →Vulture
The diversity between communities is called as.
Beta diversity
Alpha diversity
Delta diversity
Gamma diversity
Ozone layer is present in.
Troposphere
Ionosphere
Lithosphere
Stratosphere
is a colorless, odorless and toxic gas is produced when organic material like coal and their product incompletely burnt.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon Monoxide
Sulphur dioxide
Nitrogen oxide
General term for particles suspended in air is.
Mist
Dust
Fog
Aerosol
Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are transported by prevailing winds they form secondary pollutants such as nitric acid vapour, droplets of sulfuric acid descends on earth surface is called.
Rain
Acid rain
Basic rain
Ice rain
Ozone is a form of oxygen with atoms.
2
3
1
4
The major pollutant from automobile exhaust is.
CO
NO
YES
SO2
The rapidly moving stream of charged particles that is being driven away from the sun is known as what?
Coronal Mass Ejection
Solar Flare
Sunspot
Solar Wind
About how many light years across is the Milky Way?
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
Which unlucky Apollo lunar landing was canceled after an oxygen tank exploded?
Apollo 13
Apollo 11
Apollo 8
Apollo 17
The only one planet in the solar system has a day which lasts longer than its year.
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
The first manned spacecraft.
Sputnik 1
Soyuz
Vostok 1
Freedom 7
Who was the first man to classify stars according to their brightness?
Aristarchus
Pythagorus
Copernicus
Hipparchus
What is the star nearest to the sun?
Alpha Centauri
Proxima Centauri
Sirius
Barnard's Star
The Orion Nebula is a good example of what kind of nebula?
Reflection Nebula
Dark Nebula
Planetary Nebula
Emission Nebula
What is the collection of small rocky bodies, otherwise known as minor planets, 99.8 percent of whose orbits lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
Comets
Meteoroids
Kuiper Belt Objects
Asteroids
Elliptical, Spiral and Irregular are classifications of what type of astronomical systems?
Galaxies
Star Clusters
Nebulae
Planetary Systems
Which of the following men wrote the book 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'?
Kepler
Euclid
Copernicus
Newton
The Magellanic Clouds are.
irregular galaxies
spiral galaxies
elliptical galaxies
large clouds of gas and dust
The VISUAL aurora consists of luminous arcs, rays or bands in the night sky, usually confined to high latitudes and located in the.
troposphere
stratosphere
ozonosphere
ionosphere
According to Kepler's Laws, all orbits of the planets are.
ellipses
parabolas
hyperbolas
square
Which type of star is maintained by the pressure of an electron gas?
Main Sequence Star
White Dwarf
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are satellites of what planet?
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Uranus
Name the outer boundary of the sun's magnetic field?
Magnetopause
Bow Shock
Termination Shock
Heliopause
Phobos and Deimos are moons that orbit which planet?
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Venus
The two main radiation belts that surround the earth are known by what name?
Aurora Borealis
Van Allen Belts
Magnetosphere
Ionosphere
The period from one full moon to the next is:
30.3 days
30 days
29.5 days
28 days
A pulsar is actually a:
black hole
white dwarf
red giant
neutron star
What are the two bright spots of light on opposite sides of a halo around the sun called?
Solar Flares
Sun Dogs
Moonbows
Corona
What are the Geminids, the Perseids, and the Leonids?
Meteor Showers
Comets
Asteroids
Constellations
Astronomers use cepheids principally as measures of what?
size
speed
chemical composition
distance
95% of the Martian atmosphere is composed of what substance?
Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen
Argon
Carbon monoxide
What is the motion called when a planet seems to be moving westward in the sky?
Retrograde
Parallax
Opcentric
Reverse parallax
Who was the first individual to observe the phases of Venus?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Galileo
What causes a planet to have a magnetic field?
the dynamo effect.
the Doppler effect.
the Photoelectric effect.
its rotation about its sun
What is the point at which the orbit of Mercury comes closest to the Sun called?
Aphelion
Perigee
Perihelion
Apogee
Which civilization developed and implemented the first solar calendar?
Babylonian
Greek
Egyptian
Aztec
What percentage of the earth's atmosphere does O2 comprise?
75%
50%
21%
32%
Cirrus clouds are:
rain clouds
thick and fleecy
made of ice crystals
low cloud layers
The name of a rapid rise of coastal water that accompanies the arrival of a cyclone is called:
hurricane
storm surge
tidal wave
cyclonistat
In the nebular hypothesis, each planet is formed from which of the following?
a comet
a number of moons
a passing star
a ring of gas
The available incoming solar radiation is known as:
reflection
insolation
reradiation
absorption
Which planet's axis is almost parallel to its orbital plane, making it spin nearly on its side?
Saturn
Jupiter
Venus
Uranus
With which US spacecraft did Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. land on the moon?
Apollo 11
Apollo 7
Apollo 17
Apollo 13
Which spacecraft was Laika, the first living creature sent into space?
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 3
Vostok 1
Apollo 11
Who was the first to suggest the idea of an artificial satellite?
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Sir Isaac Newton
The amount of light emitted by an object in a unit of time is known as
Themal radiation
Black body radiation
Starlight
Luminosity
Which type of telescope is used for examining the moon and other planets of the solar system?
catadioptric telescope
Schmidt Telescope
Refracting telescope
Reflecting telescope
What is the scientific term used for the twinkling of stars?
Parallax
Scintillation
Albedo
Refraction
What makes a planet a dwarf planet?
size and shape
smell
distance from the Sun
color
Who discovered the Crab Nebula?
Charles Messier
Ernst Otto Fischer
John Bevis
John Flamsteed
What is the dark center of a sunspot called?
Dark spot
Penumbra
Umbra
Filament
What is the nucleus of a comet made of?
ice, dust, and organic materials
sugar, spice and everything nice
radio, infrared and gamma rays
helium and water
Which astronomer formulated the modern big bang theory?
Georges Lemaître
Carl Sagan
Edwin Hubble
William Herschel
Who invented the telescope?
Hypatia
Galileo
Hans Lippershey
Johannes Kepler
The first satellite to operate in geostationary orbit is:
Syncom 2
Sputnik 1
Skylab
Mir
What are the clouds of interstellar gas and dust that emit light in different colors called?
Planetary nebulae
Emission nebulae
Dark nebulae
Reflection nebulae
What two motions do all planets have?
wiggle and wobble
twist and shout
rock and roll
orbit and spin
Which is the name of a radio source that is very far from Earth?
taser
phaser
tracer
quasar
Who discovered dark matter?
Jan Oort
Vera Rubin
Fritz Zwicky
Halton Arp
The doughnut-shaped zones of highly energetic charged particles trapped at high altitudes in the magnetic field of Earth are known as:
Magnetopause
Magnetosheath
Magnetosphere
Van Allen radiation belt
Which planets do not have a natural satellite?
Uranus and Venus
Mercury and Venus
Mercury and Neptune
Mercury and Saturn
The instance when the Sun is exactly above the Equator and day and night are of equal length is called:
Winter solstice
Summer solstice
Beginning of spring
Vernal equinox
What term describes the alignment of three celestial bodies?
syzygy
suzerainty
symbology
sizzle
Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Galileo
Newton
Kepler
Copernicus
What is a group of old stars closely packed in a symmetrical form called?
Star cluster
Globular cluster
Open cluster
Galactic cluster
Which of the following technologies provides the least information about celestial bodies in our solar system?
Telescope
Remote sensing
Spectral analysis
Global positioning system
What is the source of energy for the Sun?
Hydrogen Fusion
Internal Combustion
Nuclear Fission of Metals
Burning of solar gases
The surfaces of planet Mercury and our moon contain some very large craters that are most likely the results of
Giant lava flows
Asteroid impacts
Nuclear explosions
Large collapsed craters
As part of the modern theory of the origins of the elements, it is hypothesized that before the formation of the stars, most of the matter in the universe consisted of what atoms?
hydrogen and helium
nitrogen and carbon
silicon and lithium
uranium and radium
Stars begin their life cycle in
a black hole.
a nova.
a nebula.
a supernova
Which of these could increase average global temperatures?
increased use of fossil fuels
increased ocean algal blooms
decreased carbon dioxide emissions
increased numbers of animal species
When a layer of cool air at the surface of Earth is found under a layer of warmer air above it, the result is known as
the Coriolis effect.
the greenhouse effect.
a temperature inversion.
an upwelling.
Snow on the ground prevents polar climates from gaining heat by what mechanism?
heating by greenhouse gases
heat spread from the equator
reflection of solar radiation
release of heat from Earth's core
Earth's atmosphere is divided into layers that are based upon their
water content.
relative humidity.
gas content.
temperature gradient
Which is the most volcanic world in our solar system?
Earth
Venus
Io
Europa
In 1962, Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to successfully encounter another planet. What planet was this?
Mercury
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
The gaseous water density of the atmosphere is more commonly known as what?
Pressure
Temperature
Precipitation
Humidity
Rocks formed in layers are said to be
crystalline
stratified
chemical
metamorphosed
In a food chain of grassland ecosystem the top consumers are
Herbivorous
Carnivorous
Bacteria
Either carnivorous or herbivorous
Barnacles growing on the back of whale is an example for
Mutualism
Parasitism
Amensalism
Commensalism
The final stable community in an ecological succession is called
Final community
Ultimate community
Climax community
Serial community
Which of the following levels of organization is arrange in correct sequence from most to least inclusive?
Community, ecosystem, individual, population
Ecosystem, community, population, individual
Population, ecosystem, individual, community
Individual, population, community, ecosystem
What is probably the most important factor affecting the distribution of biomes?
Wind and water currents
Species diversity
Climate
Day length and rainfall
An organism’s (species’) niche is best described as the set of interactions between the organism and the
positive features of its environment.
abiotic parts of its environment
abiotic and biotic parts of its environment.
positive and negative features of its environment
Which of the following would increase the size of a population?
Increased mortality
Increased emigration
Decreased immigration
Increased natality
A pioneer species is
An ancient type of organism
one which has evolved quickly
one which has avoided evolution
one of the first types to grow in a new area
Which weather tool measures precipitation?
thermometer
rain gauge
barometer
anemometer
a higher albedo means
less reflection
more reflection
greater absorption
more refraction
Air that is moving is called
coriolis
humidity
wind
temperature
Which is the driving force of the water cycle
Wind
Sound
Sun
Rotation of the earth
