WorksheetsPoison in the Air
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which danger does the author mean when he writes that the danger in Delhi is something you “can’t avoid”?
a)
War
b)
Crime
c)
Air Pollution
d)
Bad drivers
2.
According to the article, air pollution may kill as many as ______ people each year.
a)
1 million
b)
5.5 million
c)
20 million
d)
1 billion
3.
Which is NOT a health problem caused by breathing dirty air?
a)
heart disease
b)
asthma
c)
blindness
d)
lung disease
4.
Which TWO are the biggest causes of air pollution?
a)
burning wood
b)
cars burning gasoline/smoke from burning coal
c)
wildfires
d)
smell from rotten eggs
5.
What do you learn about in the section titled “Dangerous Air”?
a)
why people in Delhi protested
b)
the smog problem in New York City
c)
how polluted air makes people sick
d)
what greenhouse gases do
6.
What did the U.S. and the U.K. do that helped clean up their air?
a)
passed laws to reduce pollution from factories and cars
b)
outlawed smoking everywhere
c)
closed most of their factories
d)
stopped making new cars
7.
At one time, the _______________ in London was so bad, people couldn’t see their own feet.
a)
dense
b)
greenhouse gases
c)
particles
d)
smog
8.
People in Delhi made signs to hold up when they _______________ against dirty air
a)
particles
b)
dense
c)
protested
d)
smog
9.
__________are one of the main reasons why Earth is heating up.
a)
dense
b)
greenhouse gases
c)
smog
d)
particles
10.
Pollution can make the air _______________ and hard to breathe.
a)
dense
b)
particles
c)
protested
d)
greenhouse gases
11.
Breathing in tiny __________________ from coal smoke can damage your lungs
a)
dense
b)
particles
c)
smog
d)
greenhouse gases
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