Environmental Science MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Pressure is defined as the force exerted on a surface divided by the area over which that force acts.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The albedo of the earth’s surface is only about 4%, yet the combined albedo of the earth and the atmosphere is about 30%.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Pressure always decreases as we climb upward in the atmosphere.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Agroforestry is the integration of trees and shrubs with open-space agriculture allowing simultaneous, multi-use purposes. Agroforestry is a worldwide practice since the dawn of farming.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Low clouds retard surface cooling at night better than clear skies because the clouds absorb and radiate infrared energy back to earth.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Chilika, the largest brackish water lake in Asia. Its is home to many migratory birds in the winters.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Water from springs contain dissolved Sulphur compounds which are used to cure some skin diseases.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Occupational hazard to the miners is called black lung.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Upper layer of water in a single body of water is known as Epilimnion.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Autecology is primarily experimental and deals with easily measured variables such as light, humidity, and available nutrients in an effort to understand the needs, life history, and behaviour of the organism or species.