Worksheets3RD YEAR - SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
According to our environmental footprint we need 1.6 planets to...
...save all the plants and animal species that are in danger today.
...satisfy all our food, housing, services, and mobility needs.
...feed 8,000million inhabitants.
...stop climate change, rising sea levels and global warming.
The capacity of an area of land to generate resources and absorb waste without being damaged is called...
Biotechnology
Biodiversity
Bioethics
Biocapacity
How does acid rain affect environment?
Its acid chemicals can disintegrate human skin.
It affects trees, buildings and technological networks.
It has chemicals that damage plants, soil and animals.
It makes temperature increase and contributes to global warming.
What are CFCs?
Industrial gases that destroy the ozoneof the upper layers of the atmosphere.
Holes in the Ozone Layer that allow solar radiation to enter the atmosphere.
Fossil fuels that pollute the atmosphere.
Costly Factory Crimes: emitting CO2 to the atmosphere without permission of the authorities.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Pollution produced by factories that use fossil fuels.
Gases produced by burning fossil fuels trap heat in the atmosphere and make the global temperatures increase.
The radiation that enters the atmosphere through the hole in the ozone layer increases the Earth's temperature.
Plants absorb CO2 and clean the air from pollution.
Should we worry about climate change?
No, temperatures are rising very slowly and will not affect our planet in the next 200 years.
Yes, because summers will be warmer every year and that will affect people's health and tourism negatively.
Yes, because ecosystems, sea level and weather will be negatively affected.
Yes, because the climate change will produce a new ice age in the next 100 years.
Which one does NOT contribute to soil degradation?
Deforestation
Rainforests
Erosion
Desertification
What is the consequence of introducing foreign species in an ecosystem?
Genetic mutations
A bigger biodiversity
Desertification of the environment
Loss of biodiversity
It is as big as Spain, France and Germany together and is made up of plastic waste. What is it?
The Giant Atlantic Rubbish Pile
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Big Pacific Plastic Island
The Huge Plastic Pacific Current
In this earth summit many countries decided to stop emissions and try to keep global warming under 1.5ºC by 2030.
Kyoto Protocol
Berlin Conference
Moscow Summit
2015 Paris Agreement
Which one is NOT considered a natural disaster?
Volcanic eruption
Flood
Tornado
Nuclear plant accident
Forest fire
They are caused by natural disasters and include death, destruction of homes, epidemics and famine.
Humanitarian crises
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian organisations
Human affairs
Emergency responses
