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Pollution and Conservation

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following causes pollution?

a)

driving cars and trucks

b)

spilling chemicals in rivers

c)

oil spills in oceans

d)

all of the above

2.

Which of these conserves resources?

a)

Keep radio on low volume all day

b)

Turn off the water when brushing teeth

3.

Which of these does NOT conserve resources?

a)

Throwing out your bike and buy a new one each year.

b)

Taking short showers

4.

What does this symbol mean?

a)

Conservation

b)

Nature

c)

Renew

d)

Recycle

5.

Choose all choices that happen when people dump waste from homes or factories into lakes, oceans, or rivers?

a)

it helps plants to grow

b)

it kills animals and plants living there

c)

it causes water pollution

d)

it causes the water to be toxic

e)

it dries up the water

6.

People cause land pollution by __________.

a)

spilling water into the water

b)

recycling

c)

littering on the ground

d)

conserving energy

7.

It is important to conserve water because ____________.

a)

it makes our yard look nice

b)

it is fun to swim

c)

it is nice to drink on a hot day

d)

we all need it to survive

8.

Choose all of the following that are ways to conserve water.

a)

leaving the shower on when it's not being used

b)

turning off the faucet when it's not being used

c)

fixing leaky sinks and faucets

d)

doing full loads of laundry

9.

Choose all the ways you can reduce pollution.

a)

Carpool

b)

take the bus

c)

leave trash on the ground

d)

recycle

e)

throw trash out of a car window

10.

What are the 3 R's?

a)

rain, reduce, renew

b)

resource, review, recycle

c)

reduce, reuse, recycle

d)

reduce, reward, review

11.

Which of these could cause breathing problems?

a)

acid rain

b)

an oil spill

c)

litter

d)

smoke from a factory

12.

Making a swing out of an old tire is a way to conserve resources.

a)

true

b)

false

13.

Dumping used oil down the drain is a way to conserve resources.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

Smoke given off by a car is an example of _____________.

a)

recycling

b)

water pollution

c)

fog

d)

air pollution

15.

Throwing trash out of a car window is an example of _______.

a)

reducing pollution

b)

littering

c)

smog

d)

pesticides

16.

Dumping toxic waste in a field is an example of land pollution.

a)

true

b)

false

17.

Throwing glass bottles on the ground at the park is an example of air pollution.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

Which is an example of water pollution?

a)

smog

b)

an oil spill in the ocean

c)

littering

d)

car exhaust

19.

Planting new trees where old ones were cut down is a way of protecting natural resources.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

Building a factory where a swamp once was is a way of protecting natural resources.

a)

true

b)

false