Unit 3: Environmental Responsibility

What are the environmental health issues?

• Drought

• Water pollution

• Air pollution

• Planting more trees

• Option 1,2 and 3

True or False,plastic in the ocean is considered harmful to aquatic life

• True

• False

What is an ecosystem?

• A place in which we live

• Our earth

• A system made up of the community of all living organisms and their environment

How can we produce more oxygen?

• Breathe less

• Plant more trees

• We cannot produce oxygen

What is carbon offset

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon footprint

• Producing more oxygen in an attempt to balance out the extra carbon humans generate with factories, cars and other pollutants

On what day does Earth Day take place?

• 22 April

• 1970

• 23 May

What contributes toward the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen?

• Planting trees

• Cutting down trees

• Carbon foot print

• Option 1 and 3

How can we as citizen contribute to awareness?

• Design a poster

• by Honouring Earth Day

• Do research

• All of the above

True or false, all life on earth is based on carbon

• True

• False

True or false, there are laws in place to protect the environment

• True

• False