Do You Know Your Environment?
11 Questions
| Total Attempts: 38
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This is a short quiz to test your knowledge about the environment.
Questions and Answers
- 1.The Earth's surface is covered by what percent of water?
- A.
97%
- B.
99%
- C.
80%
- D.
70%
- E.
68%
- 2.Pollution of surface and ground water can come in many different forms, such as:
- A.
Fertilizers
- B.
Toxic chemicals
- C.
Pesticides
- D.
Household hazardous wastes
- E.
All of the above.
- 3.EPA stands for what?
- A.
Environmental Protection Agency
- B.
Eastside Plaid Association
- C.
Easter Painters Association
- D.
Earwax Painters Association
- 4.What is desalination?
- A.
Converting seawater to usable water.
- B.
Adding saline solution to water, to balance out the chemicals.
- C.
Adding salt to water to kill germs.
- 5.Water Is Life - More than __% of the human body consists of water.
- 6.The Las Vegas Valley Water District is a not-for-profit agency that began providing water to the Las Vegas Valley in what year?
- 7.The purpose of the Gardens at the Spring Preserve, is to what?
- 8.Why is water sometimes called "hard"?
- 9.What is being studied by the U.S. Department of Energy for long-term storage of radioactive materials?
- 10.About 88 percent of our drinking water comes from Lake Mead. True or False?
- 11.True or False: Conserving water in the desert is everyone's responsibility.
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