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Land Pollution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name

Class

Date

How do landfills effect the environment?

Landfills cause fish to be poisoned and die.

Landfills support plant growth and healthy soil.

Landfills cause smog in the air.

Landfills cause chemicals from trash to absorb into the soil and harm plants.

Which is one reason that trash and litter can hurt wildlife?

Wildlife are afraid of human garbage.

Trash covers the scent of other animals they are hunting.

Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them.

Trash and litter removes their camouflage.

Which human action can cause pollution?

Walking

Biking

Mining

Recycling

What is an effect of land pollution?

no clean drinking water

loss of habitat for animals

diseases from breathing in poor quality air

What is the largest cause of land pollution?

Animal waste

Plants decomposing

Human actions

Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

Mining

Increase in greenhouse gases

Pesticides

Landfills

Human sewage

_____________________ is the contamination of air, land, and water.

Conservation

Ecology

Pollution

Pollution occurs when people release, dump, leak, spill, or ______________ the environment around us.

litter

preserve

save

The illegal dumping or littering of waste onto the land is called __________ pollution.

air

land

water

10.

_____ is a material that is found in nature and that is used by living things.

nonrenewable resource

natural resource

renewable resource

11.

What is one way people help the environment?

building new cities

tearing down a forest

placing harmful chemicals in streams

picking up litter

12.

______ is to use less of something.

recycle

reuse

reduce

pollution

13.

Which is the most harmful form of land pollution?

plastic

paper

branches and leaves

food waste

14.

To reduce pollution in the environment, people should ______________ materials.

recycle

pollute

throw away

clean

15.

What is a landfill?

A place for people to recycle

A place where people's trash is taken

A place where oil spills begin

A type of factory

16.

What is this picture

Seal choking in plastic

seal

seal swimming

sea

17.

Is this good for us?

yes

18.

Which of these is a landfill?

19.

Which of these shows land pollution?

20.

Which of these is a renewable resource?

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Land Pollution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

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