This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Environment > Water Pollution – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Water Pollution Quiz 8 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Humans can help reduce land pollution by ..... bottles, cans, and paper products. A) Recycling. B) Heat. C) Drought. D) Global warming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recycling. 2. Chemicals from industries or farmers is known as ..... A) Runoff. B) Sewage. C) Point-source pollution. D) Drainage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Point-source pollution. 3. Of the following, which constitutes the greatest percent of domestic use of water in the United States? A) Drinking. B) Flushing toilets. C) Cooking. D) Washing dishes. E) Washing clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flushing toilets. 4. Acid rain is caused by A) The burning of fuel. B) Acid from the sun. C) Too much microplastic in our clouds. D) Too much plastic in our oceans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The burning of fuel. 5. What is virtual water? A) Amount of water to create a product. B) Water that is salty. C) Water on a computer screen. D) Water that is frozen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amount of water to create a product. 6. Thermal pollution A) Is primarily due to residential water use. B) Is primarily a problem in the winter. C) Has been reduced by the use of cooling towers. D) Is not regulated in the United States. E) Is rarely lethal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has been reduced by the use of cooling towers. 7. The difference between a point source and a nonpoint source of water pollution is ..... A) Point sources can be targeted for reduction. B) Nonpoint sources tend to be factory outputs. C) Point sources tend to be agricultural in nature. D) A nonpoint source is easily identifiable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Point sources can be targeted for reduction. 8. Which human action csn cause pollution? A) Mining. B) Biking. C) Walking. D) Recycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mining. 9. How waste is produced by industries? A) Using water for cutting things in factories. B) Throwing clean water. C) Reverse boring. D) Making of paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reverse boring. 10. What can everyone do to stop water pollution and save water? A) Open the water tap. B) Spills the oil to the ocean. C) Stop throw chemical waste or trash to the ocean. D) Throw the chemicals to the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stop throw chemical waste or trash to the ocean. 11. Which of the following is a disease that causes severe diarrhea and a loss of blood? A) Malfunction. B) Benevolent. C) Dysentery. D) Malice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dysentery. 12. What happens to plastic waste? A) Sinks to the bottom and gets buried under the sand. B) It never fully goes away, it just breaks into little pieces. C) Dissolves and decomposes in the water. D) It is dumped in the ocean for fish to eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It never fully goes away, it just breaks into little pieces. 13. ..... is when bodies of water contain an abundance of nutrients caused by humans. A) Porosity. B) Artificial eutrophication. C) Potable. D) Thermal pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial eutrophication. 14. Water pollution can be A) Biological. B) Temperature. C) Physical. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. What is true about water pollution? A) All water is polluted. B) There is a way to make water 100% pure. C) Nutrients are not pollutants. D) All of these are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All water is polluted. 16. Pollution traced to a single point A) Permeable. B) Point source pollution. C) Non-point source pollution. D) Water shed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point source pollution. 17. Which is a point source of pollution? A) A suburban community. B) A sewage treatment plant. C) Farm runoff. D) A harbor. E) Storm runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sewage treatment plant. 18. Different water pollution types include: A) Surface Water & Oxygen Depleting. B) Microbiological & Suspended Matter. C) Chemical & Oil Spillage. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. When conserving water, the 3Rs we need to remember are: A) Reduce, Reuse, Rethink. B) Remove, Reuse, Recycle. C) Report, Remove, Reduce. D) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 20. How does water get into the ground? A) Infiltration. B) Condensation. C) Precipitation. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infiltration. 21. Other than 'doing the right thing' what is the incentive for Norwegian companies to join the bottle recycling scheme? A) They get given free computer equipment by the government. B) They get free office space. C) They pay less tax to the government. D) They earn more money from the bottles they sell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They pay less tax to the government. 22. Approximately how many deaths per day due to water pollution. A) 500. B) 3, 846. C) 14, 000. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14, 000. 23. Source of pollution that can be traced to back to a single source. A) Runoff. B) Nonpoint source pollution. C) Sediment. D) Point source pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point source pollution. 24. Farmers spread or spray this on their field to produce larger and more crops. A) Fertilizers. B) Oxygen. C) Acid rain. D) Pesticides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fertilizers. 25. Small particles that are made up of rocks, silt, and soil. A) Sand. B) Humus. C) Water. D) Sediment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sediment. 26. What can be toxic? A) Coffee. B) Water. C) Juice. D) All of these options. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these options. 27. Windmill works on what energy? A) Wind energy. B) Water energy. C) Soil energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind energy. 28. Ahmed lives near a river that flows through farmland. He notices that the river has become more polluted over the years. The water that was once clear is now sometimes cloudy and has an unpleasant odor. What is the most likely cause of the pollution in the river? A) Heat. B) Oil and gasoline. C) Industrial waste. D) Pesticides and fertilizer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pesticides and fertilizer. 29. Accelerated build-up of nutrients caused by humans A) Biomagnification. B) Artificial eutrophication. C) Thermal pollution. D) Wastewater. E) Water pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial eutrophication. 30. The problem of Jaffrey Lake is based on A) Artificial eutrophication. B) Not enough nutrients in the lake. C) Too much dissolved oxygen in the lake. D) Natural eutrophication. 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