This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Biology Chapter 16 Environmental Issues – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Biology Chapter 16 Environmental Issues Quiz 64 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Mexico's most valuable resource? A) Gold. B) Oil. C) Silver. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oil. 2. Which word fits the definition:'animals that are not pets or farm animals'? A) Wildlife. B) Creatures. C) Species. D) Livestock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wildlife. 3. Extraction is ..... A) The action of taking something out the ground. B) Electricity generated by falling water. C) Caused by rain mixing with gases from the burning of fossil fuels. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The action of taking something out the ground. 4. What is the largest country in Europe? A) Spain. B) France. C) United Kingdom. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 5. Which option is not a factor of pollution? A) Dancing in the streets. B) Waste. C) Chemicals. D) Noise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dancing in the streets. 6. Canadian forestry products, such as timber and processed wood, account for almost $ 15 billion of international trade annually. The majority of these products are sold to A) China. B) Mexico. C) The United States. D) The European Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The United States. 7. How can forests be increased? A) Natural regeneration. B) Plant ones in new areas. C) Re-plant ones in deforested areas. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. What laws have Mexican officials put in place to help lessen the pollution? A) Citizens are required to wear protective masks when pollution levels are high. B) Citizens are permitted to drive their cars on certain days only. C) Made it illegal to drive trucks that get poor gas mileage. D) Made stricter laws against cutting down trees in the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citizens are permitted to drive their cars on certain days only. 9. The increase of the earth's temperature A) Rubbish. B) Global warming. C) Air pollution. D) Rubbish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global warming. 10. Zoos are built to save ..... A) Endangered animals. B) Dangerous animals. C) Extinct animals. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endangered animals. 11. The United Kingdom has set forth government regulations for emissions released from cars. They are working hard to reduce ..... A) Chernobyl. B) Air Pollution. C) Water Pollution. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Air Pollution. 12. The ..... has experienced oil spills which have polluted rivers in Turkey. A) Mediterranean Sea. B) Black Sea. C) Caspian Sea. D) Arabian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black Sea. 13. Tons of waste pours into the Ganges River everyday. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Identify the best explanation for Africa's modern deforestation problems. A) To provide fuel/heat for families and make room for farming. B) Insects and agricultural disease has plagued the continent for years. C) To build industrial factories. D) To expand cattle ranching. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide fuel/heat for families and make room for farming. 15. Which is one of the United Kingdom's solutions to the air pollution problem? A) Monitoring air quality. B) Restricting driving miles. C) Allowing factories to pollute without monitoring. D) Keeping drivers from using gasoline in their cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monitoring air quality. 16. A large variety of plant and animal species A) Lumber. B) Hydroelectric dams. C) Biodiversity. D) Deforestation. E) Rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biodiversity. 17. How much of Japan's electricity comes from renewable sources? A) About 100%. B) About 80%. C) About 50%. D) About 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About 20%. 18. Which was created after the Great Smog of 1952? A) A ban on coal fires. B) An industrial revolution. C) London's smokeless zones. D) King Edward's ban on coal firesThis is a wrong answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London's smokeless zones. 19. Who is mostly affected by the pollution in Mexico City? A) Young children and the elderly. B) Middle aged people. C) Animals. D) Twenty year olds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Young children and the elderly. 20. Dams in Turkey and Syria have decreased this country's water supply by 80%. A) Israel. B) Syria. C) Iraq. D) Jordan. E) Saudi Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iraq. 21. What steps were taken by the government to make Chernobyl safer after the nuclear disaster? A) The reactor was taken apart. B) The reactor was buried in concrete. C) The government quit using nuclear power. D) The reactor was moved to the exclusion zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The reactor was buried in concrete. 22. The term applied to a species that has no living members is ..... A) Endangered. B) Threatened. C) Extinct. D) Troubled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinct. 23. How are acid rain, air pollution, and nuclear disasters all similar? A) The effects of all three are contained within one country. B) All happened due to one time human error. C) They all happened in the same country. D) Pollution spreads into many other countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollution spreads into many other countries. 24. Which verb means to keep something safe from harm or injury? A) Prevent. B) Protect. C) Save. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protect. 25. Which two countries sufferer from food shortages because irrigating crops is extremely difficult without a sufficient water supply. A) Turkey and Syria. B) Syria and Jordan'. C) Jordan and Iraq. D) Iraq and Syria. 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