Environmental Science MCQs

Question 1

_________ element had guided the earlier navigators to keep them on right path.

Accepted Answer

Magnetite

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Carbon

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Coal

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Uranium

Question 2

Heat is energy in the process of being transferred from:

Accepted Answer

Hot objects to cold objects

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Low pressure to high pressure

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Cold objects to hot objects

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High pressure to low pressure

Question 3

Which one is true?

Accepted Answer

symbiosis when the interaction is useful to both the populations

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symbiosis when neither population affects each other

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commensalism when none of the interacting populations affect each other

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commensalism when the interaction is useful to both the populations

Question 4

A population is a group of

Accepted Answer

individuals in a species

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species in a community

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communities in an ecosystem

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individuals in a family

Question 5

Rising air cools by this process:

Accepted Answer

Expansion

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Evaporation

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Compression

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Condensation

Question 6

Sinking air warms by this process:

Accepted Answer

Compression

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Expansion

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Condensation

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Friction

Question 7

The horizontal transport of any atmospheric property by the wind is called:

Accepted Answer

Advection

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Radiation

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Conduction

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Latent heat

Question 8

Perspiration cools the body by

Accepted Answer

Latent heat transfer

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Advective heat transfer

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Radiative heat transfer

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Conductive heat transfet

Question 9

The forests which occur in law rain fall area is

Accepted Answer

Deciduous forests

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Evergreen forests

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Coniferous forest

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all the above