ENVIRONMENTAL QUIZ REVIEWER

1. Oil Spill is a leakage of petroleum from oil tankers or other vessels that can be
destructive to life in the ocean.
2. Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) is the agency that forecasts weather reports in the
Philippines.
3. A glass bottle will take 4000 years to decompose if its not recycled
4. Plastic take 450 years just to begin decomposing. It takes another 50 to 80 years
to be completely decomposed.
5. Only 1% of plastic shopping bags are recycled.
6. When a newspaper is recycled, it takes only seven days from to become a brand
new newspaper!
7. 40% of drinking water comes from plastic bottles.
8. For every tonnes of paper recycled, 17 trees are saved.
9. 27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have Toilet Paper.
10.Acid rain is a result of air pollution. When any type of fuel is burnt, lots of
different chemicals are produced.
11.Fukushima Daiichi is the powerful earthquake which hit Japan on 11th March
2011 caused a tsunami which added to the destruction of millions of peoples
homes and livelihoods.
12.Global warming is the increase of average world temperatures as a result of
what is known as the greenhouse effect.
13.Biodiversity describes the whole range of the different varieties of living things
and systems on this earth.
14.Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that
cause adverse change.
15.Pollution is caused when harmful or poisonous substances are released or
found in the air, rivers, seas, animals, plants or even our bodies.
16.A mirage is a phenomenon where you think you see water.
17.A tsunami is a huge volume of moving seawater. These giant waves can travel
for thousands of miles across the sea and still have enough energy and force to
destroy buildings, trees, wildlife and people.
18.The word tsunami (pronounced soo-NAH-mee) is Japanese, and it means
harbour wave.
19.Ozone is a naturally occurring gas found in the atmosphere where it absorbs
most of the sun's ultraviolet light - invisible rays which are harmful to both plant
and animal life.
20.A rainbow is sunlight spread out into an arc of colours and seen by your eyes
when the sun shines through water droplets
21.The El Nio effect occurs every two to seven years, and is caused when the
strong westward blowing trade winds drop, and warm water moves back
eastward across the Pacific Ocean. The Peruvians named the phenomenon El
Nio the Christ child, because it tends to begin around Christmas.
22.Rainforests are forests which grow in areas of high rainfall.
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