Environmental Science MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The sulphur oxides (combination of sulphur and oxygen) react with the water vapour in the air to form very strong acids like sulphuric acid (h2so4). these acids fall along with the rain and hence the name acid rain. this rain is very harmful for plant and animal life.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
During the afternoon, the greatest temperature difference between the surface air and the air several meters above the ground occurs on a:clear, calm day.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is any concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Methane also is the chief constituent of natural gas, which contains from 50 to 90 percent methane (depending on the source), and occurs as a component of firedamp (flammable gas) along coal seams.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Red sea is an example of a faulted structure.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Towering cumulus (cumulus congestus) would refer to cloud b.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Zinc, Chlorine, Boron, Molybdenum, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Cobalt and Nickel are called micro-nutrients. They are called so because they are found and needed by plants in very small amount relative to other nutrients and are least likely to be limiting plant growth and healthy development.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Increased surface UV leads to increased tropospheric ozone.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Biomass pyramids show how much biomass (the amount of living or organic matter present in an organism) is present in the organisms at each trophic level, while productivity pyramids show the procreation or turnover in biomass.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services based upon which the economy and society depend.