What Do You Know About The Environment?
20 Questions
| Total Attempts: 233
A quiz to help students learn about environmental issues
Questions and Answers
- 1.What country consumes the greatest amount of energy in the world?
- A.
United States of America
- B.
Russia
- C.
China
- D.
United Kingdom
- 2.How much of the water of the world can be used by humans?
- A.
10%
- B.
1%
- C.
50%
- D.
25%
- 3.Which city is the world's most polluted city?
- A.
Beijing
- B.
Mexico City
- C.
Los Angeles
- D.
New Delhi
- 4.What is the name for a substance that can be broken down and eaten by microorganisms?
- A.
Biodegradable
- B.
Degradable
- C.
Recycled
- D.
Consumed
- 5.What do we call the natural environment of a living organism?
- A.
Home
- B.
Habitat
- C.
Forest
- D.
Desert
- 6.Which one of the following is a renewable resource?
- A.
Wind
- B.
Coal
- C.
Oil
- D.
Gas
- 7.What is the greatest cause of carbon monoxide?
- A.
Motor vehicles
- B.
Jet planes
- C.
Farm animals
- D.
Ocean liners
- 8.How many of the world's inhabitants do not have access to clean water?
- A.
Over 40%
- B.
Over 15%
- C.
80%
- D.
Less than 30%
- 9.Which gas is mainly responsible for the green house effect?
- A.
CO2
- B.
O2
- C.
H2
- D.
Natural gas
- 10.How much of our daily water consumption is used in the bathroom?
- A.
40%
- B.
75%
- C.
50%
- D.
15%
- 11.What prefix comes from an original Greek word meaning the course of human life?
- A.
Bi
- B.
Bio
- C.
Pre
- D.
Post
- 12.What is the word used to describe the scientific study of the relationship between living things and their natural environment?
- A.
Ecology
- B.
Biology
- C.
Psychology
- D.
Archaeology
- 13.What is the substance that protects humans from the sun's harmful rays?
- A.
Methane
- B.
Ozone
- C.
Propane
- D.
Hydrogen
- 14.What is the size of the Amazon Rain Forest?
- A.
Over 1 billion acres
- B.
Over 1 million acres
- C.
2 millions acres
- D.
500,000 acres
- 15.What do we call the process by which we use material more than once?
- A.
Recycling
- B.
Reusing
- C.
Repairing
- D.
Reviving
- 16.How much of the garbage in the ocean is plastic?
- A.
70%
- B.
90%
- C.
50%
- D.
10%
- 17.How many trees does every tonne of recycled paper save?
- A.
118 trees
- B.
17 trees
- C.
100 trees
- D.
10 trees
- 18.How long does it take glass to decompose?
- A.
1 million years
- B.
500 years
- C.
1 year
- D.
We don't know
- 19.What do we call rain that contains chemical waste and damages plants and animals?
- A.
Heavy rain
- B.
Acid rain
- C.
Methane rain
- D.
Polluted rain
- 20.What is the name of the climate change agreement named after a Japanese city?
- A.
Kyoto
- B.
Tokyo
- C.
Osaka
- D.
Hiroshima
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