Municipal Solid Waste: Test Your Knowledge About Waste Management! Trivia Quiz
Below is a Municipal Solid Waste trivia quiz to help Test Your Knowledge about Waste Management! TA good sewerage system makes an area clean and at the same time, frees the community from some waterborne diseases and other dangers associated with filthy waters. How about you give it a shot and see just how knowledgeable you are about solid waste management.
- 1.The slope range that is prescribed as production land use is
- A.
0-18%
- B.
Above 50%
- C.
16-50%
- D.
0-8%
- E.
None of the choices
- 2.The elevation reserved for protection land use is
- A.
Above 500
- B.
Above 100
- C.
Above 2,000
- D.
Above 1,000 mtrs.
- E.
None of the choices
- 3.Under the 1998 Evolutionary Soil Classification System, the classification leveldepicted in the Bureau of Soils and Water Management is the
- A.
Soil order
- B.
Soil type
- C.
Soil great group
- D.
Soil series
- E.
None of the choices
- 4.A Philippine climatic type characterized by rainfall evenly distributed throughout the years refers to:
- A.
Type III
- B.
Type II
- C.
Type IV
- D.
Type I
- E.
None of the choices
- 5.The Philippine forest type that is adapted to growing in steep slopes and in places with a distinct wet and dry season is the
- A.
Pine/saleng
- B.
Diptrocarp
- C.
Molave/molawin
- D.
Mangrove
- E.
None of the choices
- 6.The law requiring LGUs to prepare their comprehensive, multi-sectoral development plan initiated by their development councils and approved by their Sanggunians is:
- A.
PD 399
- B.
Executive Order No. 72
- C.
RA 7160
- D.
PD 1517
- E.
None of the choices
- 7.The law regulating the practice of environmental planning is
- A.
PD 1308
- B.
PD 1517
- C.
PD 957
- D.
None of the choices
- E.
PD1096
- 8.The Law proclaiming of land certain areas and types of projects asenvironmentally critical and within the scope of the EIS system
- A.
PD 1586
- B.
Proclamation No. 2146
- C.
PD 1152
- D.
DAO 96-37
- E.
None of the choices
- 9.Reclassification of land in highly urbanized areas, after conducting publichearing for the purpose, shall be limited to
- A.
10%
- B.
15%
- C.
20%
- D.
25%
- E.
None of the choices
- 10.A local legal measure which embodies regulations affecting the land use is
- A.
Comprehensive Land Use Plan
- B.
Zoning Ordinance
- C.
Cadastral Survey
- D.
Tax Declaration
- E.
None of the choices
- 11.A special locational clearance which grants a property owners relief from certainprovisions of the zoning ordinance where, because of the particular physicalsurrounding, shape or topographical conditions of the property, compliance withheight, area bulk, setback and/or density would result in a particular hardship to theowner
- A.
Certificate of Non-Conformance
- B.
Exception
- C.
Variance
- D.
None of the choices
- E.
Zoning Clearance
- 12.A device which grants a property owner relief from certain provisions of aZoning ordinance where, because of the specific use would result in a particularhardship to the owner
- A.
Variance
- B.
Certificate of Non-Conformance
- C.
Exception
- D.
Development
- E.
None of the choices
- 13.This refers to all barangays or portion/s of which comprise the poblacion andother built-up areas including the urbanizable land in and adjacent to said areasand whereat least 50% of the population area engaged in non-agriculturalactivities:
- A.
Central business district
- B.
Urban area
- C.
City center
- D.
Suburban area
- E.
None of the choices
- 14.Cities with a minimum population of 200,000 inhabitants as certified by theNational Statistics Office and with latest annual income of at least P 50,000,000based on 1996 constant prices as certified by the City Treasurer are called
- A.
Independent Component Cities
- B.
Regional Centers
- C.
Highly Urbanized Cities
- D.
Component Cities
- E.
None of the choices
- 15.Urbanization began around 4,000 B.C. in the area known as the
- A.
Fertile Crescent
- B.
Mediterranean
- C.
Babylon
- D.
Asia
- E.
None of the choices
- 16.The primary factor/s in the location of cities during the Bronze Age along theIndus Valley is/are:
- A.
Transport
- B.
Agriculture
- C.
Defense
- D.
None of the choices
- E.
All of the choices except none
- 17.He developed the first theoretical basis for physical planning
- A.
Hippodamus
- B.
Nicodemus
- C.
Nostradamus
- D.
Aristotle
- E.
None of the choices
- 18.They understood the importance of transportation and thus emerges as the firstregional planners of the world.
- A.
Greeks
- B.
Romans
- C.
Sumerians
- D.
Egyptians
- E.
None of the choices
- 19.It was during this period that the concept of urban design was established
- A.
Renaissance
- B.
Bronze Age
- C.
Medieval Period
- D.
Atomic Age
- E.
None of the choices
- 20.The Garden City as a solution to urban planning problems
- A.
Malthus
- B.
Ebenezer Howard
- C.
Nicodemus
- D.
Adam Smith
- E.
None of the choices
- 21.He theorized that physical planning could not improved urban living conditionsunless it was integrated with social and economic planning in a context odenvironmental concerns.
- A.
William Penn
- B.
Patrick Geddes
- C.
Peirre L’ Enfant
- D.
None of the Choices
- E.
Allan Carreon
- 22.The Architect Planner who designed Luneta, Tagaytay and Baguio
- A.
Burnham
- B.
Concio
- C.
Faithful
- D.
None of the choices
- E.
Lynch
- 23.Rectangular streets are examples of the
- A.
Grid Iron Pattern
- B.
Axial
- C.
Radial
- D.
Ribbon-Type
- E.
None of the choices
- 24.What was the most important factor in designing settlement patterns during theSpanish Period in the Philippines?
- A.
Plaza
- B.
Economy
- C.
Transportation
- D.
Religion
- E.
None of the choices
- 25.Aside from volume and growth, what is the other key point that a tourism analystshould consider in analyzing tourist arrivals?
- A.
Qualitative changes in tourist arrivals
- B.
Socio-cultural changes
- C.
Political changes
- D.
None of the choices
- E.
Tourist Comfort
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