Europe Environment Concerns formative

Which of the following below identifies a main cause of acid rain in Germany?

• Nuclear radiation

• Coal burning factories

• Hydro-electric powered factories

• Plants slowly become destroyed due to acid rain.

Which of the following below identifies a main cause of air pollution in the United Kingdom?

• Overcrowding and cars from urban areas.

• Acid rain which pollutes fish in water.

• Chernobyl scientists should have used the safety control rods during the reactor test.

• Crop burning.

Which answer below correctly describes why the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred?

• The scientists followed all safety measures correctly, but Russia attacked the nuclear power plant with missiles.

• One scientist wanted to sabotage the reactor, and caused the explosion.

• The scientists were negligent, and did not use all of the safety control rods during the safety test.

• The reactor was old and worn down, which just caused an accident to occur.

Which statements below correctly identify causes of air pollution in the United Kingdom? Choose all that apply.

• Coal burning factories

• Overcrowding in urban areas

• In Chernobyl, nuclear reactor 4 exploded

• People experience lung problems like asthma

• Car exhaust

Which answer(s) below correctly identify common effects of air pollution on people from the United Kingdom? Choose all that apply.

• Cancer caused by radiation

• Asthma

• People's skin burns and dissolves

• Breathing problems

• Thyroid cancer in young people

Which answer below describes an effect that acid rain has in the country of Germany?

• Radiation poisoning

• Crumbling architecture

• Breathing problems

• Overcrowding in urban areas

Which solution to Germany's acid rain problem would be the MOST challenging to achieve?

• Changing all of their cars to electric power instead of gas power.

• Convincing other nearby countries to pass laws reducing car emissions and exhaust.

• Convincing your neighbors to carpool with you to reduce car usage.

• Germany does not have an acid rain problem.

Which 3 examples below identify examples of causes of air pollution in the United Kingdom?

• oil processing factories and acid rain

• coal powered factories and car emissions

• oil processing factories and coal powered factories

• nuclear power plants and overcrowding in urban areas

• car emissions and overcrowding in urban areas

If a citizen is experiencing breathing problems like asthma due to an environmental issue, which country below would this citizen be from?

• Ukraine

• United Kingdom

• Germany

• Russia

Which answer below correctly identifies an effect the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had on the country of Ukraine?

• The explosion destroyed most of the country, blowing up buildings and towns.

• The country of Ukraine and nearby countries to Ukraine had to spend billions of dollars in clean-up and recovery.

• Ukraine had to ask Russia to power their country, since every nuclear power plant was destroyed in the explosion.

• Every person in Ukraine had to be evacuated, even citizens who didn't live in Chernobyl. The country was completely empty.