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Land Pollution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
How do landfills effect the environment?
a)
Landfills cause fish to be poisoned and die.
b)
Landfills support plant growth and healthy soil.
c)
Landfills cause smog in the air.
d)
Landfills cause chemicals from trash to absorb into the soil and harm plants.
2.
Which is one reason that trash and litter can hurt wildlife?

    
a)
Wildlife are afraid of human garbage.
b)
Trash covers the scent of other animals they are hunting.
c)
Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them.
d)
Trash and litter removes their camouflage.
3.

Which human action can cause pollution?

a)

Walking

b)

Biking

c)

Mining

d)

Recycling

4.

What is an effect of land pollution?

a)

no clean drinking water

b)

loss of habitat for animals

c)

diseases from breathing in poor quality air

5.

What is the largest cause of land pollution?

a)

Animal waste

b)

Plants decomposing

c)

Human actions

6.

Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

a)

Mining

b)

Increase in greenhouse gases

c)

Pesticides

d)

Landfills

e)

Human sewage

7.
Which of these is one cause of deforestation?
a)
Urbanization
b)
Buying a chirstmas tree during the holidays
c)
Overbreeding birds in the wild
d)
Cutting down the tree in your backyard
8.
What are the effects of deforestation ?
a)
loss of habitat
b)
increased green house gasses 
c)
soil erosion and flooding
d)
all of the above
9.
Does deforestation contribute to global warming?
a)
No, trees aren't that important
b)
Sometimes because only the cutting down of Maple trees contributes to global warming
c)
No, deforestation adds methane to the atmosphere, which makes the Earth cooler
d)
Yes; less trees means less CO2 is turned into oxygen.
10.

The CAUSES of desertification are:

a)

drought

b)

overgrazing

c)

human environment interaction such as deforestation

d)

all of the above

11.

True or False: Desertification is a natural process.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What cause land pollution?

a)

People throw too much rubbish in the sea.

b)

People throw too much rubbish everywhere.

c)

People reduce making rubbish.

d)

People reuse things.

13.

land pollution

a)
b)
c)
14.

Which of these shows land pollution?

a)
b)
c)
15.

A farmer put pesticides on their garden. The pesticides leaked into the soil. What kind of pollution is it?

a)

Air pollution

b)

Water pollution

c)

Land pollution

d)

Noise pollution

16.

I am in the car on the way home from school and see trash fly out the window of the car in front of me. There is now trash on the sidewalk in front of my school. This is an example of what type of pollution?

a)

Air pollution

b)

Water pollution

c)

Land pollution

d)

Noise pollution

17.
While driving John throws his plastic bottle in a near buy open  is a form of land pollution
a)
False
b)
True
18.
3.Which of these factor is not a cause in an incresae in land pollution
a)
Proper disposal of cans in nearby bins
b)
Toxic waste
c)
Increase in solid waste of garbage on open lots
d)
electronic waste
19.
How can land pollution harm the environment?
a)
It can destroy the homes of animals
b)
It can spoil  the beauty of nature
c)
It can allow harmful chemicals to enter the soil
d)
All of the above
20.

These are some types of pollution.

a)

air pollution

b)

land pollution

c)

food pollution

d)

water pollution

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