Environmental Science MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option D.
An ideal shelter for housing a temperature-measurement instrument should be both white and in the shade.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Oxygen is released during the process of photosynthesis.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Hot spots are regions of high endemism.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
In July, at middle latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, the day is more than 12 hours long and is getting shorter with each passing day.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The conversion of a pond to a climax forest community is an example of hydrarch succession.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Uranium is the fuel most widely used to produce nuclear energy. That’s because uranium atoms split apart relatively easily. Uranium is also a very common element, found in rocks all over the world.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Indira Gandhi had stated in the Stockholm Conference in 1972 that poverty was the greatest polluter.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Organisms can be classified into one of three domains based on differences in the sequences of nucleotides in the cell’s ribosomal RNAs (rRNA), the cell’s membrane lipid structure, and its sensitivity to antibiotics. The three domains are the Archaea, the Bacteria, and the Eukarya.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 120,000 short tons (110,000 t) of crude oil. She was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England, on 18 March 1967, causing an environmental disaster. At that time she was the largest vessel ever to be wrecked.