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WorksheetsPST Quiz 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
What is the definition of skyrise greenery?
Skyrise greenery has increasingly become an important component of sustainable urban development.
Skyrise greenery encompasses all greening at the building or other structures
Skyrise greenery includes bother rooftop greenery and vertical greenery
All of the above
What are the utmost concerns about skyrise greenery?
Make sure the structural loading is enough to hold the greenery on the building
Make sure maintenance crew cannot access the utilities on the roof so that they cannot repair items that are out of order
Allow every user of roof garden to free-fall to practice their Superman skills
Save money on drainage because flooding of the roof garden will make Aquaman very happy to stay on the roof
Standards and guidelines put in place for Singpaore's skyrise greenery are books that inform about:
Design of clothes labels
Design for safety on rooftop greenery
Layer for vegetables only
Protection against planting on roof
Which on is a benefit to horizontal planes of skyrise greenery?
All answers stated below
Add amenity value of green roofs
Food production
Asethetic value of green roofs
Increase roof life
Which of the following is a fact about the benefit of insulation and energy efficiency of green roofs?
Green roofs increase heating and air-conditioning costs
Indirect shading of roof for plants
Evaporative cooling from plants and the planting media
None of the above
Which of the following is true about green roofs?
Green roofs increase noise pollution
Downtown temperature in the graph in slide 20 has the lowest temperature compared to other areas
Green roofs absorb heat and reduces Urban Heat Island Effect
Green Roofs absorb water and release it over a period of time to help increase flooding at the ground level
The following are charactersitics of the intensive rooftop greenery (there are more than 1 correct answer):
Inaccessible to be used as communal rooftop space
Elaborate and asethetic layout with design for activities
Vegetation media varies in soil depths and heavier with adequate structural loading provision
Requires less maintenance thatn extensive rooftop greenery
Which of the following is a characteristic of extensive rooftop greenery?
With a thinner and more lightweight vegetation support layer than intensive rooftop greenery
Accessible to public
Requires less maintenance comparted to intensive rooftop greenery
Limited range of vegatation (drought-tolerant preferred)
(Extended Learning): How many species of birds and butterflies are recorded in 30 urban roof gardens in the study published in 2017?
23,000 Bird Species and 80 Butterfly Species
35 Bird Species and 1,100 Butterfly Species
53 Bird Species and 57 Butterfly Species
53 Bird Species and 75 Butterfly Species
(Extended Learning): What is the latest trend(s) in Singapore's Skyrise Greenery 2017?
Vertical Village (Kampung)
Greenwall
Communal Rooftop Food Gardens
Target to attract only one species of bird
