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Environmental Pollution

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name

Class

Date

Pollution is anything potentially harmful that humans add to an ecosystem (pollutants).

True

False

They’re not produced by humans; they come from gases or ashes from volcanic eruptions or wildfires.

Artificial

Natural

All those pollutants originated from human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels, industries, agriculture (pesticides), household activities, oil spills, nuclear energy, and wildfires, among others.

Artificial

Natural

Are those generated by the industry such as detergent, oil, solvent, and petroleum.

Chemical pollutants

Biological pollutants

Physical pollutants

Could be of a visual, hearing, or radiative character, as well as garbage.

Chemical pollutant

Biological pollutant

Physical pollutant

Are those generated by hospitals, such as blood, organs, viruses, or bacteria; as well as protozoan or fungus generated by garbage.

Chemical pollutant

Biological pollutant

Physical pollutant

Emissions created through human activities are considered

anthropogenic

biogenic

The chemicals released directly into the air from factories and vehicles would be considered

primary air pollutants

secondary air pollutants

atmospheric transport

atmospheric deposition

Ozone and acid rain are both pollutants formed through reactions in the atmosphere. This makes them

primary air pollutants

secondary air pollutants

atmospheric transport

atmospheric deposition

10.

Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

warm

cold

dead

11.

1. Why is the Ozone important to life on Earth?

A. The Ozone reflects all the Ultra Violet radiation

A. The Ozone absorbs all the heat that come up from the Earth.

The Ozone provides all the oxygen to Earth.

The Ozone protects the Earth’ s atmosphere and the life on Earth from harmful radiant energy emitted by the sun

12.

Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps....

will result in cooler temperatures in the Arctic

will result in sea-levels rising

Will have no effect on ecosystems

None of the above

13.

Cutting down large forests (deforestation) can result in:

little to no changes

more homes for animals

less plants to absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas

14.

The majority of Earth's energy comes from...

the Earth's core

the Sun

hydroelectric power

burning fossil fuels

15.

What is the greenhouse effect?

The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.

The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.

The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

16.

Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?

Carbon dioxide

Methane

Water vapor

nitrogen

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Environmental Pollution

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 7mins

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