Earth, nature, and environment trivia quiz questions.
Which gas released by car exhausts, stops the blood hemoglobin from
working correctly?
A: Carbon Monoxide.
What name is given to the hard white material of elephant tusks?
A: Ivory.
What device is added to a car's exhaust system to reduce pollution?
A: Catalytic converter.
Which Australian mammal lays eggs?
A: Duck-billed platypus.
What is the term for something that will break down naturally?
A: Biodegradable.
Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
A: Nitrogen.
Which fuel is formed by the fossilization of plants?
A: Coal.
Oxygen forms approximately what proportion of the atmosphere?
A: 20%.
What kind of tide appears at full Moon?
A: Spring tide.
What is the term given to the study of the weather?
A: Meteorology.
What is the second most common gas in the atmosphere?
A: Oxygen.
What is the name given to the outermost layer of the Earth?
A: Crust.
Which country produces the world's largest quantity of municipal
waste per person per year?
A: USA.
Which is the largest national park in Europe?
A: Hobe Tauern in Austria.
Which sea is so highly polluted that the Barcelona Convention was set
up in 976 to try and clean it up?
A: Mediterranean Sea.
What was the viral disease controversially introduced into Britain
during the 1950s to reduce the rabbit population?
A: Myxomatosis.
What is the collective noun for larks?
A: Exhalation.
What is the scientific scale for measuring the hardness of rocks?
A: Mohs' scale.
What is the world's smallest continent?
A: Australia.
Which gas forms approximately 1% of the atmosphere?
A: Argon.
What is the term for the energy obtained from hot, underground rocks?
A: Geothermal.
What name is given to the rocks swallowed by dinosaurs to assist
their digestion?
A: Gastroliths.
Which animal has been hunted almost to extinction because of its
horn?
A: Rhinoceros.
Which chemical, commonly used to increase crop yield, sometimes
contaminates drinking water?
A: Nitrate.
Where is the Glacier Bay national park?
A: S E Alaska.
When you recycle a drink can, which metal is it you are recovering?
A: Aluminum.
What is the earth's core made of?
A: Molten iron and nickel.
What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?
A: Lava.
What is the term applied to the process of gathering together weather
forecasts from various recording stations?
A: Synoptic forecasting.
What kind of natural phenomenon 'meanders'?
A: A river.
What is a cloud?
A: Water vapor condensed into droplets.
What is the collective name for rain hail, snow, and sleet?
A: Precipitation.
What is the hardest natural substance known?
A: Diamond.
What was the name of the ship that spilt 85,000 tons of oil off the
Shetland Islands in 1993?
A: Braer.
What is the collective noun for crows?
A: Murder.
What are the three main greenhouse gases?
A: Carbon dioxide; methane; chlorofluorocarbons.
25% of which traditional British feature was cut down between 1945
and 1985 because of agricultural mechanization?
A: Hedges / hedgrerows.
What is the maximum speed of a garden snail: 0.03 mph, 0.3 mph, or 3
mph?
A: 0.03 mph.
Someone who studies tectonics is probably an expert in which field?
A: Movement of continental plates.
What common mineral is formed by the fossilization of vegetation?
A: Coal.
Which theory compares the Earth to a living organism?
A: Gala hypothesis.
In which part of the atmosphere is the ozone layer?
A: Stratosphere.
Where are you likely to come across a laccolith?
A: In igneous rock.
