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ENVIRONMENT QUIZ BEE FOR GRADE 8

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

EASY: Hydroelectric energy is produced from ________.

a)

waste

b)

gas

c)

water

d)

fire

2.

EASY: What is the most abundant gas on the earth’s atmosphere?

a)

oxygen

b)

nitrogen

c)

carbon

d)

hydrogen

3.

EASY: Ozone layer is being depleted by __________.

a)

smog

b)

carbon monoxide

c)

sulfur dioxide

d)

chlorofluorocarbon

4.

EASY: Exposure to indoor second hand smoke, dirty cooking fuel, and dampness increases the risk of which infectious disease in children?

a)

tuberculosis

b)

mumps

c)

malaria

d)

cholera

5.

EASY: A category of life forms which consists of animals.

a)

fauna

b)

flora

6.

EASY: Which of the following is an amphibian?

a)

salamander

b)

lizard

c)

fish

d)

lion

7.

EASY: What is the instrument used to detect earthquakes?

a)

radiometer

b)

barometer

c)

seismograph

d)

anemometer

8.

AVERAGE: A ___________ is a group of organisms of the same species living in a particular area.

a)

ecosystem

b)

population

c)

community

9.

AVERAGE: Erosion is a process by which soil is being gradually destructed and displaced because of natural forces. Which among the following DOES NOT cause erosion?

a)

wind

b)

water

c)

human activities

d)

pollution

10.

AVERAGE: These are types of cells that have no well-defined nuclei and other membrane bound organelles.

a)

prokaryotes

b)

eukaryotes

11.

AVERAGE: The production of light by living beings such as fireflies is known as ____________.

a)

bio-luminescence

b)

bio-lighting

c)

bio-fluorescence

12.

AVERAGE: Which branch of biodiversity provides 60% of all the worlds medicine?

a)

animals

b)

bacteria

c)

plants

13.

AVERAGE: Which of the following is causing the most extinction?

a)

pollution

b)

loss of habitat

c)

old age

14.

AVERAGE: Which of the following environments would you expect to have the most biodiversity?

a)

Sahara Desert

b)

North Pole

c)

Amazon Rainforest

d)

Mt. Everest

15.

DIFFICULT: Areas near the (a)   receive almost equal amount of sunlight all year round making the region “temperate.” This is the reason that the Philippines does not experience other seasons.

16.

DIFFICULT: Asexual reproduction involves only one parent. A hydra reproduces asexually when it produces a smaller version of itself through the process called (a)   .

17.

DIFFICULT: In biology, (a)   is the scientific study of naming, defining, and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

18.

DIFFICULT: Colored plastids are called chromoplasts.

An example of a chromoplast is the chloroplast which contains the green coloring pigment in plants called the (a)   .

19.

DIFFICULT: It is the action of clearing a wide area of trees. This can be in the form of kaingin or illegal logging.

(a)