Reading Quiz P- 558-570
In this reading quiz, answer a host of questions on a number of topics regarding the Love Canal, which is a neighbourhood infamous for a 70-acre landfill that once served as a major environmental pollution disaster.
- 1.Love Canal is located in
- A.
Ohio
- B.
New York
- C.
California
- D.
Panama
- 2.The company responsible for the dumping of toxic and cancer-causing wastes into an old canal excavation called the Love Canal was
- A.
DuPont
- B.
Monsanto
- C.
Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation
- D.
The 3M Company
- 3.After Love Canal was abandoned, it was sold and used for
- A.
An elementary school and housing project
- B.
A shopping mall
- C.
An amusement park
- D.
An industrial park
- 4.The amount of solid waster produced in the United States in 1996 would fill a convoy of garbage trucks stretching around the world almost
- A.
2 times
- B.
4 times
- C.
6 times
- D.
8 times
- 5.The recycling/composting rate of U.S. municipal solid waste is about
- A.
5%
- B.
10%
- C.
20%
- D.
30%
- 6._______ percent of the solid waste produced in the United States is buried in landfills.
- A.
Ninety-eight
- B.
Fifty-four
- C.
Forty-eight
- D.
Thirty-eight
- 7.U.S. consumers throw away enough edible food every year that is roughly equal to _______________ Hummer H2 vehicles.
- A.
12 million
- B.
8 million
- C.
6 million
- D.
4 million
- 8.The least desirable final resting place for a used tire is
- A.
In the foundation of a low-cost passive solar home
- B.
Asphalt pavement
- C.
In an incenerator to produce electricity
- D.
In the landfill
- 9.Compost can help restore
- A.
Eroded hillsides
- B.
Overgrazed areas
- C.
Strip-mined lands
- D.
All of these answers
- 10.Which of the following substances can be recovered from solid waste?
- A.
Metals
- B.
Plastic
- C.
Paper
- D.
All of these answers
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