This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Science > Biology > Class 12 Biology Chapter 16 Environmental Issues – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Biology Chapter 16 Environmental Issues Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which renewable energy source uses the power of the wind? A) Geothermal. B) Hydroelectric. C) Wind turbines. D) Solar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wind turbines. 2. Ozone hole is caused by A) Acetylene. B) Ethylene. C) Methane. D) Chlorofluorocarbons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chlorofluorocarbons. 3. Water is unsafe to drink, and waterborne diseases are spreading is the result of A) Water pollution in the Ganges and Yellow River. B) Water pollution in the Yangtze and Ganges River. C) Flooding in the Yellow River and Ganges River. D) Water pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow Rver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water pollution in the Yangtze and Ganges River. 4. ..... is carried by the air currents and causes acid rain in Germany. A) Smokeless Zones. B) Air pollution. C) Chernobyl. D) Acid Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Air pollution. 5. A negative effect of the invention and use of paper is the ..... A) Decreased amount of books to read. B) Increased number of trees cut down. C) Increased use of glass bottles. D) Decreased pollution in trash dumps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increased number of trees cut down. 6. If the area is ..... or dirty then it is not attractive to look at and it is unpleasant to live in . A) Clean. B) Tidy. C) Untidy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Untidy. 7. What is it called when a scientist can determine the exact place that is the source of a pollutant? A) Non-point source pollution. B) Widespread pollution. C) Less hazardous pollution. D) Point source pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point source pollution. 8. Which of the following best describes why the nuclear disaster systems were disabled? A) There was an unplanned power surge that disabled them. B) There was an explosion that disabled the test systems. C) The engineers disabled the test systems on purpose. D) There were no test systems installed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The engineers disabled the test systems on purpose. 9. What is 'Ozone depletion'? A) The process of ozone purification. B) The increase in the ozone layer. C) The process of creating artificial ozone. D) The decrease in the ozone layer due to harmful chemicals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The decrease in the ozone layer due to harmful chemicals. 10. What is the body of water between northeast Africa and Asia called? A) Yellow Sea. B) Dead Sea. C) Red Sea. D) Black Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Sea. 11. Acid rain is causing damage to what famous German forest? A) Black Forest. B) Redwood Forest. C) Bamboo Forest. D) Brown Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black Forest. 12. Why is water pollution of great concern in SW Asia? A) Because the economy is dependent upon exporting water. B) Because it reduces the amount of electricity generated by hydropower. C) Because clean drinking water is scarce in the region. D) Because it prevents ships from traveling along major waterways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because clean drinking water is scarce in the region. 13. What is the best way to describe Canada's natural resources. A) Canada has a lot of natural resources. B) Canada had natural resources but they are gone. C) Canada has a few natural resources. D) Canada has some natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canada has a lot of natural resources. 14. Which factors caused air pollution in the United Kingdom? A) Overcrowding widespread use of motor vehicles. B) Chemicals from factories processing oil, natural gas, and coal. C) Car emissions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. This is a city in northern Ukraine that was the site of a major nuclear-plant accident in 1986. A) Chernobyl. B) Fukushima. C) Chair Nobel. D) Share Noble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chernobyl. 16. Which action helps reduce waste by processing used materials to make them reusable? A) Protect. B) Recycle. C) Destroy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recycle. 17. Climate change is A) Containers for rubbish or a large container. B) Weather conditions becoming warmer. C) An illness of people, animals, and plants. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weather conditions becoming warmer. 18. What is a nuclear plant? A) It is a place in which the energy source is not a nuclear reactor. B) It is a place in which the energy source is a nuclear reactor. C) It is a place in which the energy source is a steam engine. D) It is a place in which the energy source is wind power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is a place in which the energy source is a nuclear reactor. 19. Because the 3 types of environmental issues are interconnected, they are easy to resolve. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Why is the Yangtze River so important to the population and economy of China? A) Water from the Yangtze is used to irrigate the Gobi Desert. B) The Yangtze is the international border between China and India. C) People can use the Yangtze River to get over the Himalayan Mountains. D) It supplies millions of people with water for drinking, irrigation, and industrial use. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It supplies millions of people with water for drinking, irrigation, and industrial use. 21. One major effect of ..... in Brazil is the extinction of plant and animal species. A) Air pollution. B) Water pollution. C) Deforestation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deforestation. 22. How has the Indian practice of cremating the dead been a problem for the river? A) People are not allowed to go near the river when cremation are taking place. B) The banks along the river regularly catch fire and threaten Indian homes built there. C) Factory owners cannot use water once human ashes have been thrown into it upstream. D) The bodies of dead animals, as well as the ashes of human beings, have been placed in the river causing problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The bodies of dead animals, as well as the ashes of human beings, have been placed in the river causing problems. 23. What does boycott mean? A) Only shop in one store. B) To not buy products from a Store because they are doing some wrong. C) Nickname for a baby boy's bed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To not buy products from a Store because they are doing some wrong. 24. Which of the following is a common source of water pollution? A) Sewage. B) Pesticides. C) Oil spills. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. ..... of an environmental proposal are often economic. A) Money. B) Costs and Benefits. C) Food. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Costs and Benefits. 26. This country is mostly desert and has no rivers. A) Iraq. B) Jordan. C) Israel. D) Saudi Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saudi Arabia. 27. WHAT IS AN UNDERGROUND LAYER OF ROCK AND SAND THAT CONTAINS POCKETS OF FRESHWATER CALLED? A) Water pick. B) Desalination. C) Aquifer. D) Retention Ponds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aquifer. 28. Which country has been in conflict with Jordan, Syria, & Palestine over water rights to the Jordan River for many years? A) Israel. B) Unites States. C) Syria. D) Iraq. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Israel. 29. Animal waste runoff is an example of which of the following? A) Nonpoint source pollution. B) Point source pollution. C) Widespread hazardous waste pollution. D) Widespread air pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonpoint source pollution. 30. Which among the following is Act of Environmental Protection? A) Biological Diversity Act, 2002. B) National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. C) Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 31. Which statement is true about the status of the water supply in the Middle East? A) The Middle East has no fresh water supplies. B) The Middle East has an abundant supply of fresh water. C) The Middle East has a very limited supply of fresh water. D) The Middle Eastern countries don't think freshwater supplies are important because the all rely on desalination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Middle East has a very limited supply of fresh water. 32. In Iraq, the water from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers is reduced by what due to dams in Turkey? A) 100%. B) 10%. C) 80%. D) 40%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80%. 33. Most Canadians live in northern Canada where the climate is milder. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 34. Which statement BEST describes where most people in Iraq live? A) Most live near the Suez Canal. B) Most live near the Caspian Sea. C) Most live near the Arabian and Red Seas. D) Most live near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Most live near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. 35. Anything that occurs naturally in the environment and is used by people. A) Nonpoint source. B) Fake resources. C) Pollution. D) Natural resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Natural resources. 36. The building of dams has greatly changed the distribution of water, and caused conflict, between which two Southeast Asian nations? A) Iraq and Iran. B) Saudi Arabia and Iran. C) Iraq and Turkey. D) Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iraq and Turkey. 37. What is the main cause of overpopulation? A) Air pollution. B) Excessive consumption of resources. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excessive consumption of resources. 38. The Atlantic Tuna Commission set a recommended limit to how many tonnes to be fished in the sea? A) 16, 000. B) 18, 000. C) 32, 000. D) 60, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 16, 000. 39. One major environmental issue in Canada is Acid Rain A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. Changes in the earth's weather, including changes in temperature, wind patterns and rainfall A) Degradation. B) Climate Change. C) Carbon Footprint. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate Change. 41. Emissions reacting with sunlight and mixing into the water cycle, dangerous to the environment, a major problem in Germany is ..... A) Nuclear Power. B) Acid Rain. C) Smog. D) Air Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acid Rain. 42. Which of the following is NOT a cause of acid rain and air pollution? A) Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas). B) Producing goods in coal-powered factories. C) Vehicle emissions into the air. D) Solar, wind and water power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solar, wind and water power. 43. Choose the correct form of the verb:'The government ..... new policies to combat environmental issues in Latin America.' A) Implementing. B) Implement. C) Implements. D) Implemented. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Implements. 44. What are some effects of air pollution? A) Asthma and pneumonia. B) Burning in the lungs, nose and eyes. C) Isolation ( staying inside). D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. Solutions for limiting global warming and climate change include ..... A) Finding clean, renewable sources of energy. B) Being more energy efficient. C) Removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 46. Biological oxygen demand of ..... is the least. A) Pure water. B) Sea water. C) Polluted water. D) Sewage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pure water. 47. Something that produces radiation or has been exposed to radiation is ..... A) Radioactive. B) Smog. C) Air pollution. D) Emissions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radioactive. 48. What can deforestation in large forests cause? A) The growth of new forests. B) Increased CO2 release to the atmosphere. C) More Oxygen. D) New habitats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Increased CO2 release to the atmosphere. 49. What effect does Climate have on population distribution in the savannas of Africa? A) Few people live here because there is no rain for farming. B) People choose to live here because there is rain for farming. C) Climate does not effect where people choose to live. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People choose to live here because there is rain for farming. 50. The process of making air or water dirty A) Reduced fish stock. B) Global warming. C) Endangered animals. D) Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollution. 51. Strong seasonal winds called MONSOONS bring heavy rainfall that leads to flooding in India and China. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Which environmental issue is being described: "Rainfall that is mixed with pollutants in the air" A) Acid Rain. B) Water Pollution. C) Nuclear Disaster. D) Air Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acid Rain. 53. $_{What country did we discuss having a big problem with acid rain?}$ A) Germany. B) Ukraine. C) Russia. D) United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Germany. 54. Which of the two expensive metals are used as catalystsby catalytic converters and are fitted into automobiles forreducing emission of poisonous gases? A) Platinum-palladium, rhodium. B) Cadmium, rhodium. C) Copper, cadmium. D) Lead, mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Platinum-palladium, rhodium. 55. Most of the world's medicines come from the Amazon Rain Forest? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 56. Which of the following rays are re-emitted from earth's surface A) Infrared. B) Visible. C) Gamma rays. D) UV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infrared. 57. Which is the MAIN cause of China's water and air pollution problems? A) Overpopulation. B) Global warming. C) Factories and industries. D) Lack of government regulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factories and industries. 58. Why do some government officials in Africa Ignore industrial pollution? A) The industries make money. B) The industries do not make that much pollution. C) They do not ignore it, and punish industries that cause a lot of pollution. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The industries make money. 59. It is a dangerous by-product produced from the creation of nuclear power. A) Acid Rain. B) Emissions. C) Radiation. D) Air Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radiation. 60. Asthma and pneumonia are both effects of A) Being a bad person. B) Air pollution. C) Living near Chernobyl. D) Acid rain. 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