Environmental Issues

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• erosion

• pesticides

• air pollution

• oil spills

• endangered species

Answer explanation

The effects of soil erosion go beyond the loss of fertile land. It has led to increased pollution and sedimentation in streams and rivers, clogging these waterways and causing declines in fish and other species. And degraded lands are also often less able to hold onto water, which can worsen flooding.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• erosion

• pesticides

• air pollution

• oil spills

• endangered species

Answer explanation

Pesticides can contaminate soil, water, turf, and other vegetation. In addition to killing insects or weeds, pesticides can be toxic to a host of other organisms including birds, fish, beneficial insects, and non-target plants. Insecticides are generally the most acutely toxic class of pesticides, but herbicides can also pose risks to non-target organisms.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• erosion

• pesticides

• air pollution

• oil spills

• endangered species

Answer explanation

Air pollution can cause headaches, dizziness, and nausea. ... Long-term health effects from air pollution include heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases such as emphysema. Air pollution can also cause long-term damage to people's nerves, brain, kidneys, liver, and other organs.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• erosion

• pesticides

• air pollution

• oil spills

• species extinction

Answer explanation

As species go extinct, they are taken out of the food chain. Animals that ate the newly-extinct species have to find new food sources or starve. This can damage the populations of other plants or animals. Furthermore, if a predator goes extinct, its prey's population can proliferate, unbalancing local ecosystems.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• overfishing

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

An inefficient solid waste management system may create serious negative environmental impacts like infectious diseases, land and water pollution, obstruction of drains and loss of biodiversity.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• overfishing

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

Ocean overfishing simply means catching fish from the sea at rates too high where fish stocks become too depleted to recover. With oceans taking up over 70% of the Earth, sea creatures, and the overall health of marine life is essential for sustaining life elsewhere on the planet, but overfishing is having drastic effects on the future of both ocean and land dwellers.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• overfishing

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

Spilled oil can harm the environment in several ways, including the physical damages that directly impact wildlife and their habitats (such as coating birds or mammals with a layer of oil), and the toxicity of the oil itself, which can poison exposed organisms.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• overfishing

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

They may cause damage during inadequate storage, transportation, treatment, or disposal operations. Improper hazardous-waste storage or disposal frequently contaminates surface water and groundwater supplies as harmful water pollution and can also be a source of dangerous land pollution.

What environmental issue is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• fossil fuels

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing global warming.

What environmental problem is hinted in the picture?

• hazardous waste

• deforestation

• fossil fuels

• oil spills

• solid waste

Answer explanation

The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.