Environment Vocabulary Grade 6 Quiz

The process of cutting down trees to get wood or clear an area for building or farming is called

• unsustainable

• deforestation

• agriculture

• ranching

This contains harmful chemicals from factory gases and that damages trees, crops and buildings.

• ozone layer

• sewage

• acid rain

• greenhouse gas

Changes in the earth's weather patterns, including changes in temperature, wind patterns and rainfall, especially the increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere that is caused by the increase of particular gases, especially carbon dioxide and methane.

• Climate change

• Air pollution

• Global warming

• Sustainable development

All the plants and living creatures in a particular area considered in relation to their physical environment.

• Habitat

• Ecology

• Community

• Ecosystem

The process where radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface by trapping gasses in the atmosphere.

• Greenhouse effect

• Deforestation

• Overfishing

• Climate change

A layer of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation and protects our planet.

• Ozone layer

• Global warming

• Contaminant

• Radioactive waste

An area of oil that is floating on the surface of the ocean.

• sewage

• pollution

• oil slick

• coal

A natural resource that cannot be replaced after use.

• Renewable resource

• Non-renewable resource

• Plastic

• Forests

A measure of the amount of the Earth's resources used by a person or a population that lives in a particular way.

• Fossil fuels

• Carbon footprint

• Ecological footprint

• Non-renewable resource

Large underwater structures composed of the skeletons of coral, which are marine invertebrate animals.

• Crop

• Extinct

• Coral reef

• Rainforest