environmental protection 12d

Environmental protection 12d

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Multiple Choice

Match the vocabulary word with the definition:

Gases surround our planet, which prevents heat produced by the sun from escaping the earth’s atmosphere as easily as it once did.

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• greenhouse effect

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These are examples of a Fossil fuel - fuels produced by deposits of ancient plants and animals

• wind,solar,geothermal

• oil,coal,natural gas

• wind,biofuels,geothermal

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What type of energy resource is wind?

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

• Exhaustible

Multiple Choice

What are the following devices called?

• Turbines
• Mills
• Converters
• All of them
  

Multiple Select

The effects of global warming

• climate change

• increase in sea level.

• melting of polar ice caps.

• ozone layer depleted

Multiple Choice

This is an image demonstrating...

• Tornado Formation

• The Greenhouse Effect

• Hurricane Formation

• Precipitation

Open Ended

The global food crisis can be solved if

Multiple Choice

a mixture of decomposing organic matter, such as manure and rotting plants, that is used as fertilizer and soil conditioner

• compost

• recycling

• littering

• biodegradable

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An argument in favor of food biotechnology is that it

• provides foods that cure viral diseases.

• provides more food to feed a growing population.

• provides a cash crop for low income nations.

• biotech foods are not controversial

Multiple Choice

__________________ is a gas made up of oxygen that naturally exists high above Earth’s atmosphere.

• Hydrogen

• Ozone

• Helium

• Nitrogen

Multiple Select

Coal is an example for

• deforestation

• fossil fuel

• power house

• electricity source

• non-renewable energy

Multiple Choice

What are extinct species?

• Species that no longer exist

• Species that are in little number

• Species that are rare

• Species that are abundant

Multiple Select

A species is defined as endangered when it

• suffers from damage to its habitat.

• suffers from disease or predation.

• when there are hazards to the continued life of the species.

• is fed and poached at the same time

Open Ended

Define "habitat"

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• deforestaton

• forestation

• deforestion

• deforestation

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The new climate report is more dramatic than anything before it.

• true

• false

• not mentioned in the text

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The scale of the problem is such that individuals can do nothing about it.

• true

• false

• not mentioned in the text

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If the 1.5°C limit is exceeded, the earth could become uninhabitable

• true
• false
• not mentioned in the text

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Scientists use very strong language in the report, calling politicians idiots

• true
• false
• not mentioned in the text

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The report was published after three years of negotiations between scientists and politicians

• true
• false
• not mentioned in the text

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Minor changes in energy use, transport and agriculture will not solve the problem

• true
• false
• not mentioned in the text

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Politicians believe that a more realistic 2°C target should be set.

• true
• false
• not mentioned in the text

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It is still just possible to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

• true

• false

• not mentioned in the text

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The report warns that global warming might reach 3°C.

• true

• false

• not mentioned in the text

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Scientists have made an (1) ____________ discovery about what kinds of pollution are most harmful to seabirds. 

• unlikely
• alarming
• aformentioned
• everyday

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A study (2) ____________ by Australia's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies discovered

• ingested
• led
• discovered
• said

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Studies discovered that balloons were the (3) ____________ kind of plastic for seabirds.

• alarming
• deadliest
• perfect
• safest

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The research team said balloons were 32 times more (4) ____________ to kill seabirds than hard plastics.

• fatal
• dangerously
• deadly
• likely

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They found that while balloons and other soft plastics (5) ____________ for only 5 per cent of plastics ingested.

• deadliest
• maybe
• accounted
• responsible

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"Hard plastic fragments may pass quickly through the (7) ____________,

• gut
• flesh
• brain
• exit

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but soft plastics are more likely to become compacted and cause (8) ____________ obstructions."

• twice
• fatal
• edible
• easy

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The study examined 1,733 dead seabirds and found that more than a (9) ____________ of the deaths were attributed to eating plastic.

• accounted
• unexpected
• quarter
• large per cent

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Ms Roman explained that plastic is becoming an increasing (10) ____________ to seabirds.

• feeding
• mortalities
• dangerous
• threat

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She said: "Marine (11) ____________ ingestion is now a globally recognized threat....

• debris
• swallow
• octopus
• habitat

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We suggest that reducing the (12) ____________ of balloons and balloon fragments in the ocean would directly reduce seabird....."

• half

• presence

• pretence

• pollution

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We suggest that reducing the presence of balloons and balloon fragments in the ocean would directly reduce seabird (13) ____________."

• mortality

• debris

• number

• endangered