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WorksheetsEARTH DAY QUIZ
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
More than half of the breathable oxygen in the world comes from where?
How much oxygen does an average 50-year-old tree provide? (enough for .......... person/s a year)
Which of the following ailments can be treated by prescription drugs derived from plants found in the rain forest?
Cancer
Hypertension
Asthma
All of these three
Which land-based ecosystem holds the most biodiversity, i.e. concentration of plants and animals?
Tropical Forests
African Savannah
South Pacific Islands
Coral Reefs
Earth is the only body in the solar system thought to have oceans of liquid water.
True
False
What is the theme for Earth Day 2020?
Climate Action
Endangered Species
Soil Erosion
Dinosaurs
In 2016, the United Nations chose Earth Day as the day when a historic agreement on climate change was signed into force. Where was it signed?
New York
Paris
London
Tokyo
Who founded Earth Day?
Theodore Roosevelt
Ralph Nader
James Hansen
Senator Gaylord Nelson
When was the first Earth Day?
1970
1988
2003
2009
What 1997 global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases was signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States?
Reykjavik Summit
Kyoto Protocol
Oslo Accords
Millennium Summit
What does 350, the 'Magic Number' of climate change, refer to?
350 million hybrid/electric cars on the road globally
350 million kiloliters of ocean water
350 parts per million of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere
350 million megawatts of energy from carbon dioxide-free sources
What are the 3 R's?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Recycle, Reopen, Redo
Reuse, Restart, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Radiate
Which of the following can NOT be recycled?
plastic bottles
newspaper
glass jars
oil
How can we solve the problem of littering?
What is the greenhouse effect?
The name of climate change legislation that passed by Congress
When you paint your house green to become an environmentalist
When the gasses in our atmosphere trap heat and block it from escaping our planet
When you build a green house
