Year 11 VCE Environmental Science sample questions
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Year 11 VCE Environmental Science practice questions
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Skills covered
Practice Earth systems, pollution, biodiversity, sustainability, food and water security, climate change, energy use, and scientific inquiry.
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Sample VCE Year 11 Environmental Science questions
These sample questions are visible on the page before login. They show VCE Year 11 Environmental Science ecosystem structure, fieldwork data, water quality, resource use, energy flow, and sustainability decisions with diagrams, graphs, transects, and decision tables before opening the demo.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceEcosystem relationshipshardenvironmental food web
1. A wetland food-web diagram shows aquatic plants feeding snails, snails feeding small fish, and small fish feeding herons. If snail numbers fall sharply, which effect is most directly supported?
Choices
Small fish have less food available.
Aquatic plants immediately disappear.
Herons become producers.
Energy flows from herons to plants.
Explanation:
The diagram links snails directly to small fish as a food source, so fewer snails means less food for small fish.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceFieldwork methodshardfieldwork transect
2. A transect shows species richness of 3, 5, 7 and 8 species from the dry bank toward the wetland edge. What trend is shown?
Choices
Species richness increases toward the wetland edge.
Species richness is constant.
The driest site has the highest richness.
No species were recorded.
Explanation:
The plotted richness values rise along the transect, from 3 to 8 species.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceWater qualityhardwater-quality graph
3. A water-quality graph shows dissolved oxygen falling from 8.2 mg/L to 4.1 mg/L after stormwater enters a creek. Which conclusion is best supported?
Choices
Oxygen availability for aquatic organisms decreased.
The creek became oxygen-rich.
Dissolved oxygen doubled.
The graph shows only air temperature.
Explanation:
Lower dissolved oxygen means less oxygen is available in the water for aquatic organisms.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceResource usehardresource-flow diagram
4. A school water-flow diagram shows 900 L/day entering gardens and 260 L/day being reused greywater. What is the approximate percentage reused?
Choices
29%
26%
74%
260%
Explanation:
The reused fraction is 260 / 900 x 100 = 28.9%, which rounds to 29%.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceEnergy transferhardenergy-flow model
5. An energy-flow model shows 12,000 kJ in producers and 1,200 kJ in primary consumers. What transfer percentage is represented?
Choices
10%
1%
90%
120%
Explanation:
The transfer is 1,200 / 12,000 x 100 = 10%.
VCE Year 11Environmental ScienceSustainability decisionshardsustainability matrix
6. A decision matrix gives habitat planting scores of 4 for biodiversity, 3 for cost and 5 for community benefit. Which criterion is strongest?
Choices
Community benefit
Cost
Biodiversity
All criteria are equal
Explanation:
The highest score in the matrix is 5, which is assigned to community benefit.
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VCE Year 11 Environmental Science practice should help students connect systems thinking to visible evidence: ecosystem structure, fieldwork data, water quality, resource use, energy flow, and sustainability decisions. These examples preview that visual reasoning before the no-login Environmental Science demo.
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