Practice Soil Pollution Multiple Choice Questions with Answers Quiz-2

Q.1.

What is pollution?

The addition of harmful materials to soil, air, and water
The wearing away of topsoil by wind or water
When dead plants and animals are broken down into humus
Planting the same crop in the same field every year

Q.2.

What can you tell from the color of a soil?

How well water will flow through it
What size particles it has
What shape its clumps are
What minerals are in it and whether it has organic materials

Q.3.

Why are the fine particles that make up air pollution more dangerous to humans?

They get stuck in our nose hairs and make us sneeze.
They are small enough to get all the way into our lungs and get stuck there.
They are so small that there are no problems breathing them in.
They are made up of pollen and other things that people are allergic to.

Q.4.

How can water pollution affect the rest of the ecosystem?

It can cause more floods and wash away habitats.
It can destroy food chains by killing the plants and animals that live in the water, making less food available to larger animals and humans.
It doesn't affect the rest of the ecosystem, only things that are in the water.
It can cause more erosion to happen along the shorelines.

Q.5.

Which of the following is not a law that was put in place to prevent or clean up pollution?

Endangered Species Protection Act
Montreal Protocol
Clean Air Act
Geneva Accord

Q.6.

What is soil fertility?

How much water soil can hold
The ability of a soil to grow plants
Whether the soil can have babies
Information about the soil, including its properties at different horizons

Q.7.

What is a soil horizon?

What the soil looks like from a distance
Information about the properties of a soil
The border between soil and bedrock
A layer in the soil with its own chemical and physical properties

Q.8.

What is a geyser?

A hot spring that erupts, shooting hot steam in the air.
A cold spring that creates a fountain
a type of spring
Both A & B

Q.9.

What is the most common method for removing groundwater?

a well bored into the zone of saturation
accessing the water table by use of low-grade explosives
building a water tower
damming up a river

Q.10.

Which of the following implies the same thing as the word "aquifer"?

zone of saturation
zone of aeration
zone of soil moisture
zone of twilight

Q.11.

A rapid growth of algae is called _______.

sinkhole
algal bloom
aquifer
plantation

Q.12.

Which BEST describes something you could do to reduce water pollution when disposing of household chemicals?

make sure they get into landfills
make sure they don't get enter storm drains
make sure to put them out with other trash
make sure to pour them down the sink

Q.13.

Which correctly describes something that can have both positive and negative impact on the environment?

building a dam
picking up litter
decreasing the use of chemical fertilizer
using less water at home

Q.14.

What is the best definition of a water table?

The level to which a river rises when it floods.
The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer.
The boundary between the land and the ocean.
The bottom of the saturated zone in an aquifer.

Q.15.

Which of the following is NOT true about groundwater?

Groundwater is the largest freshwater source on Earth.
Groundwater is the largest liquid freshwater source for humans.
Groundwater is freshwater beneath the Earth's surface.
Groundwater can maintain stream flow during the times of drought.

Q.16.

The top of an aquifer is known as the _________.

water table
glacier
artesian well
sinkhole

Q.17.

There is nothing we can do to stop pollution.

True
False

Q.18.

Water pollution occurs when ___________

harmful substances enter a water source.
industries reduce waste disposal.
industries dispose of waste safely and correctly.
people reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Q.19.

Some factors that produce soil pollution are

pesticides
waste produced by factories
All of above

Q.20.

Where is garbage taken after you throw it away?

to the ocean
to a landfill
to space
to a factory

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