WorksheetsSuper Quiz Scrimmage Test
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
Atmospheric concentrations of (a) and other greenhouse gases are steadily increasing due to human activity.
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
Ozone
Which civilization in Mesopotamia developed writing?
Sumerians
Persians
Akkadians
Babylonians
Assyrians
In the poem “Last Snowman,” the snowman’s mouth is likened to which medical condition?
a. a stroke victim
b. a heart attack patient
c. a frostbitten patient
d. a crying clown
e. a choking individual
Which 1976 artwork of Mel Chin is named after a common children’s playground object?
The Swing
See-Saw
Tunnel Slide
Jump Rope
Monkey Bars
After the election of President Nelson Mandela, which was one of the first works by an African-American composer to be played by the National Symphony of South Africa?
It's a Wonderful World
Global Warming
Give Earth a Chance
Big Yellow Taxi
Earth Song
An organism's ability to survive is known as its what?
potential
feasibility
endurance
viability
stability
When did the Holocene epoch begin?
8.3 thousand years ago
9.5 thousand years ago
10.6 thousand years ago
11.7 thousand years ago
12.3 thousand years ago
As mentioned by Ermias Kebreab in his TED Talk, what is the primary greenhouse gas emitted by cows?
carbon dioxide
methane
nitrous oxide
sulfur dioxide
chlorofluorocarbon
What is the musical term for the distance between A and the next higher or next lower A called?
pitch
frequency
octave
calibration
Which U.S. president signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law?
Donald Trump
Joe Biden
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
What environmental award did Esau Sinnok receive in 2016?
UN Climate Action Award
White House Champion of Change for Climate Equity
Nobel Environmental Prize
Arctic Circle Leadership Award
National Environmental Protection Medal
What is the primary function of electricity-generating power plants?
to store fuel
to convert energy into electricity
to produce chemical reactions
to cool water
to distribute food
What is the perspective that is founded on the visual phenomenon that as lines recede into the distance, they appear to converge and eventually vanish at a point on the horizon?
vantage point
singularity
linear perspective
intensity perspective
composition
Ame no ki (Rain Tree) employs (a) by using overhead spotlights.
Which country was both the top producer and top consumer of oil in the early 2020s?
China
India
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
the United States
What literary device is used in the sentence, "A fiery strip of orange creeps above the horizon"?
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
allusion
What is a major feedback system that is of great importance to environmental scientists, policy makers, and citizens?
Earth's heating system
Wealth inequality feedback loop
Inflationary feedback loop
Biological feedback loop
Pygmalion feedback loop
Drawing upon the manner in which the Santa Barbara spill and environmentalist activities of the 1960s and 1970s impacted less affluent communities, Purifoy’s (a) poses critical questions to its view about poverty, oil extraction, and toxicity.
Community Impact
It was not until the song was included in the 1988 soundtrack for Good Morning, Vietnam, that which song became a popular number in the United States?
"Big Yellow Taxi"
"Hello, World"
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
"What a Wonderful World"
What popular term references oil due to its immense value and the need to extract it from the earth?
liquid silver
black gold
dark treasure
Earth’s wealth
Earth’s fortune
Which piece brings together and advances many of the characteristics of Mel Chin’s practice, including interdisciplinary collaboration, the experimental use of technology, engagement with site, and social and environmental activism?
Unmoored
Subtlety
The Great Migration
The Kitchen Table Series
The Way We See It
Subhankar Banerjee lived and worked in the (a) in Alaska for fourteen months, photographing the environment and its inhabitants.
Arctic
Tundra
Forest
Desert
Ferde Grofé used coconut shells muffled with leather to create what sound?
clip-clop sound of hooves
drip-drop of rain
tick-tock of a clock
ping-pong of a ball
zig-zag of a flying insect
In the novel Melt, Yutu’s village is MOST likely located in which region?
below the Arctic Circle
above the Arctic Circle
near the equator
on a remote island in the Pacific
in southern Scandinavia
Certain gases in the atmosphere – water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – help maintain the Earth’s temperatures and climate. These are called: __________ .
ozone gases
solar gases
greenhouse gases
stomach gases
A strong VOC and greenhouse gas, made in excess from livestock.
Carbon Dioxide
Lead
Mercury
Methane
Accounts for 81.6% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
Water Vapor
Fluorinated Gases
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Nitrous Oxide
_____________ produced by microbial processes in soil and water, including those reactions which occur in fertilizer containing nitrogen
methane
Nitrous Oxide
Water vapor
Carbon dioxide
In the novel Melt, Bea tells Yutu that he taught her to
appreciate the beauty of the Arctic
challenge herself to conquer all her worst fears
look differently at what was right in front of her
respect the power of nature
What is an encore?
a short, light piece of music
a repetition of the piece of music
the concluding passage of a piece of music
a term for music gradually getting louder
Repeated changes in genotype over time may result in which of the following for a species?
a constant phenotype
no change in phenotype
a variety of phenotypes
a decrease in genetic variation
Subhankar Banerjee lived and worked in the ________ in Alaska for fourteen months, photographing the environment and its inhabitants.
Everglades National Park
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs)
Yellowstone National Park
What was the Kyoto Protocol aimed at?
increasing global trade
reducing greenhouse gas emissions
reducing nuclear weapons
expanding oil production
