WorksheetsCCBMS Pentathlon!
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Atmospheric concentrations of (a) and other greenhouse gases are steadily increasing due to human activity.
Oxygen
Helium
Neon
Carbon dioxide
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
Church Rock Spill Evaporation Ponds by Will Wilson is part of a(n) (a) series Wilson calls "Survey."
Art
Photography
Exhibition
Installation
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
harmony
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
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.
Environmental Justice
Oil Spill
Community Impact
Toxicity
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”
