8th Grade Environmental Geoscience Quizzes , Questions & Answers

Recent Environmental Geoscience Quizzes

Environmental Science Unit 4 - Land Use & Human Impact 4.7 - I CAN describe strategies for sustainability.

Questions: 8 | Attempts: 3482 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Which of the following is NOT a strategy for increasing Earth's sustainability?

Crop rotation

Using recycled materials

Designating land as wilderness

Increasing the size of industrial farms

Environmental Science Unit 4: Land Use & Human Impact 4.3 I can compare the efficiency of different methods of food production.

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 510 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question
Land can produce more food if you grow plants instead of raising animals because:

Animals contain less energy since they are farther up the food chain

Plants provide more nutrients per gram

Meat costs more than vegetables, so it has more calories

4.6 Pesticides & Fertilizers

Environmental Science Unit 4: Land Use & Human Impact 4.4 I can explain the benefits and environmental impacts of pesticide and fertilizer use.

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 3907 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Farmers use pesticides because they

Add nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, to the soil.

Make crops resistant to harmful bugs.

Provide a rich water supply to the crops.

Kill unwanted organisms that destroy crops.

4.4 Poverty & Malnutrition*

Environmental Science Unit 4 - Land Use & Human Impact 4.4 - I CAN explain how poverty is a major cause of malnutrition.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 525 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Malnutrition is best defined as:

When people develop eating disorders

When people die from diseases spread through unclean water

When people do not consume enough calories or eat enough different foods to meet the body's needs

Updated Environmental Quiz 2014

Over 10,000 college and high school students, boy scouts, general audiences of adults, forest industry employees, and even community and legislative leaders have taken the quiz over the past 23 years. Now available on-line as an...

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 1200 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2025

Sample Question
The population of the world in 1950 was about 2.6 billion. The world population is currently about:

3.4 billion

7.2 billion

9.3 billion

11.5 billion

4.3 Methods Of Food Production

Environmental Science Unit 4: Land Use & Human Impact 4.3 I can compare the efficiency of different methods of food production.

Questions: 9 | Attempts: 701 | Last updated: Mar 19, 2025

Sample Question
A given plot of land can produce more food when used to grow plants than when used to raise animals because

Animals are farther up the food chain, therefore receive less energy

Plants provide more nutrients per gram

Meat is more expensive than vegetables, therefore it has more calories in it

Animals are always larger than plants, therefore always need more space

4.4 Poverty & Malnutrition

Environmental Science Unit 4 - Land Use & Human Impact 4.4 - I CAN explain how poverty is a major cause of malnutrition.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1153 | Last updated: Mar 18, 2025

Sample Question
Malnutrition is best defined as:

When people develop eating disorders due to poor body image

When people die from diseases spread through unclean water

When people do not consume enough calories or eat enough different foods to meet the body's needs

When disease spreads through crops and destroys them

Renewable Energy Quiz: Future Of Power

This quiz is worth 15 pts. There are 16 questions and you have 17 minutes

Questions: 16 | Attempts: 246 | Last updated: Oct 28, 2025

Sample Question
In the northern hemisphere which of the following would describe how passive solar power for heating and cooling would work?

A house with windows only on the north side and an awning to block winter light

A house with windows only on the south side and an awning to block winter light

A house with windows only on the northern side and an awning to block summer light

A house with windows on the southern side and an awning to block summer light

Self Evaluation Quiz - Waste Management

It’s easy to flush a toilet or take out the trash without paying any attention to where your waste is going – and if it’s being disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. How much do you know about...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 372 | Last updated: Oct 1, 2025

Sample Question
Kofiase, a suburb of Mampong has an average solid waste generation rate of 0.35kg/cap/day and an estimated population of 2,000. What is the annual waste generation rate of the community?

700kg per annum

0.7tons per annum

256tons per annum

256kg per annum

3.8 Solutions For Sustainability

Environmental Science 3. 8 - I CAN describe solutions for sustainability.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 1812 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2025

Sample Question
Which of the following is NOT a strategy that could slow population growth?

Legal punishments

Limiting education for women

Public Policy

Economic incentives

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