This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Environment > Soil Pollution – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Soil Pollution Quiz 2 (13 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of a bacteria that lives in the soil? A) Rhizobium. B) Nematoda. C) Penicillium. D) Earthworm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhizobium. 2. What are the three components of soil? A) Insects, sand, topsoil. B) Clay, sand, humus. C) Topsoil, subsoil, bedrock. D) Earthworms, sand, silt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clay, sand, humus. 3. Negative human intervention to the environment is one of the causes in the accumulation of pollutants or contaminants which resulted to pollution. Which of the following human actions resulted to land pollution? A) Mining. B) Carbon emitted by the vehicles. C) Burning of garbage. D) Eutrophication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mining. 4. Exposure to this soil pollutant resulted to inhibition of cellular respiration and rapid death. Which of the soil pollutant is being described? A) Mercury. B) Cyanide. C) Cadmium. D) Arsenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cyanide. 5. Where is garbage taken after you throw it away? A) To the ocean. B) To a landfill. C) To space. D) To a factory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To a landfill. 6. How is soil affected by insecticide and pesticide? A) Breaks down soil minerals. B) Hurt the soils feelings. C) Draws out natural needed nitrogen. D) Kills the plants starting at the roots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Draws out natural needed nitrogen. 7. It is a type of pollution that simply defined as the contamination or degradation of earth surface. A) Air pollution. B) Water Pollution. C) Land /Soil Pollution. D) Noise pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Land /Soil Pollution. 8. Where in the world do we see soil pollution? A) Canada, China, Australia. B) Everywhere. C) Africa, Australia, South Africa, Europe. D) US, Europe and Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everywhere. 9. What is located beneath soil layers? A) Bedrock. B) Tundra. C) Humus. D) Lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bedrock. 10. How does soil pollution affect the economy? A) Polluted plants can't be sold if they are poisoned. B) Animals think the plants taste bad. C) People get sick from buying plants. D) Plants aren't happy with being sold for money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polluted plants can't be sold if they are poisoned. 11. It is one of the major soil pollutants from industrial wastes which causes neurological problems and damages renal glomeruli and tubules. A) Cyanide. B) Arsenic. C) Cadmium. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mercury. 12. Waste from nuclear power plant A) Urban Waste. B) Domestic waste. C) Radioactive waste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radioactive waste. 13. What does EPA stand for A) Environmental Processing Authority. B) Environmental Pollution Authority. C) Environmental Agency of Protection. D) Environmental Protection Agency. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Environmental Protection Agency. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesSoil Pollution Quiz 1Air Pollution QuizAnthropogenic Activities And Their Impacts On Environment QuizBiomass Energy QuizBiomedical Waste QuizClimate Change And Its Socio Economic And Political Dimensions QuizConvention On Biodiversity QuizDevelopment And Environment Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books