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WorksheetsEnvironment Vocabulary Grade 6 Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The process of cutting down trees to get wood or clear an area for building or farming is called
unsustainable
deforestation
agriculture
ranching
This contains harmful chemicals from factory gases and that damages trees, crops and buildings.
ozone layer
sewage
acid rain
greenhouse gas
Changes in the earth's weather patterns, including changes in temperature, wind patterns and rainfall, especially the increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere that is caused by the increase of particular gases, especially carbon dioxide and methane.
Climate change
Air pollution
Global warming
Sustainable development
All the plants and living creatures in a particular area considered in relation to their physical environment.
Habitat
Ecology
Community
Ecosystem
The process where radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface by trapping gasses in the atmosphere.
Greenhouse effect
Deforestation
Overfishing
Climate change
A layer of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation and protects our planet.
Ozone layer
Global warming
Contaminant
Radioactive waste
An area of oil that is floating on the surface of the ocean.
sewage
pollution
oil slick
coal
A natural resource that cannot be replaced after use.
Renewable resource
Non-renewable resource
Plastic
Forests
A measure of the amount of the Earth's resources used by a person or a population that lives in a particular way.
Fossil fuels
Carbon footprint
Ecological footprint
Non-renewable resource
Large underwater structures composed of the skeletons of coral, which are marine invertebrate animals.
Crop
Extinct
Coral reef
Rainforest
Greta Thunberg is a person who works to change laws and attitudes about the environment. What is she called?
Environmental activist
Ecologist
Scientist
Environmentally friendly
The using up of a resource is known as...
Sustainable Development
Logging
Consumption
Drought
Goals led by the UN to end extreme poverty by focusing on 17 key indicators, the top five of which are no poverty, zero hunger, good health, quality education, and gender equality, with key benchmarks for 2030.
SDGs
United Nations
Ecology
Solar energy
Behaviours and products that do not harm the environment.
Over-fishing
Renewable resource
Unsustainable
Environmentally friendly
A long period of dry weather which can negatively affect food production.
Flood
Crop
Drought
Rainy season
