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 it’s 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 people’s 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 Niño 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 Niño’ – 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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