IT's All About Environment SustainabilITy! Quiz
11 Questions
| Total Attempts: 577
See how many of these sustainability-related questions you can get right! You will see your score at the end. All of the answers can be found in the sustainability guide resources.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What proportion of the UK's electricity supply (approx.) came from renewable sources in 2013?
- A.
5%
- B.
15%
- C.
48%
- 2.Which group of animals are thought most at risk of extinction due to anthropogenic influences?
- A.
Birds
- B.
Amphibians
- C.
Mammals
- 3.Which of these rivers run dry before they reach the sea?
- A.
Colorado (USA)
- B.
Ganges (India)
- C.
Yellow river (China)
- 4.True or False? in 2012, for the first time since poverty trends began to be monitored, the number of people living in extreme poverty, and poverty rates, fell in every developing region of the world.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.By what % did the enrolment rates of children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa increase between 1999 and 2010?
- A.
7%
- B.
12%
- C.
18%
- 6.The current average life expectancy of someone born in the UK is?
- A.
78
- B.
80
- C.
85
- 7.The current average life expectancy of someone born in Sierra Leone is?
- A.
47
- B.
52
- C.
60
- 8.The country with the highest per capita emissions of carbon in 2012 was?
- A.
China
- B.
Australia
- C.
United States of America
- 9.Which country is overall the highest emitter of CO2 at the moment?
- A.
United States of America
- B.
China
- C.
Brazil
- 10.According to the Earth Institute's report to the UN in 2012, the inhabitants of which countries were the happiest?
- A.
Denmark
- B.
Finland
- C.
Netherlands
- D.
Norway
- 11.According to the Earth Institute's report to the UN in 2012, the inhabitants of which countries were the least happy?
- A.
Benin
- B.
Central African Republic
- C.
Sierra Leone
- D.
Togo
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