Environmental Quiz Reviewer

1. According to a global study of wind power in 2005 what extent of the world's total energy usage could
be satisfied if all viable wind power locations were exploited:
1%;
10%;
75%;
Five times?
2. What word, derived loosely from 'two oxygens', refers to a highly toxic group of pollutant chemicals
produced typically as by-products from manufacturing processes?
Dioxins
Alfatoxin
Megatoxin
Intoxication
3. A photovoltaic module is more commonly known as what?
Solar panel
Electro-hydro plant

Thermal Energy Plant

4. Sulphur/sulfur dioxide and (various) nitrogen oxides are the main contributory factors in what
unhelpful environmental effect:
Acid rain;
Landfill run-off;
Global warming;
Pesticides
5. What structural modification of oxygen is an air pollutant in the lower atmosphere but beneficial in the
upper atmosphere?
Ozone
stratosphere
exosphere
mesosphere
6. Used in various environmental terminology referring to organic life, what prefix derives from the
original Greek meaning 'the course of human life'?
Bio
Anthro
Exo
Meta
7. What is the climate change agreement aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere,
named after the Japanese city in which participating nations agreed its framework in 1997?
Kyoto Protocol
Paris Convention
Belize Assembly
8. Photopollution is a technical alternative word for what sort of pollution?
Light
Water
Air
Noise
9. In excess of how many gallons of water are lost each day in the USA to leaks, equating to 14% of all
'withdrawals':
Six million,
Sixty million,
Six hundred million;
Six billion
10. The UN Stockholm Convention signed in 2001 seeks to limit the production and use of what,
abbreviated to POPs?
Persistent Organic Pollutant
Photo-organic Pollutant Pyro-organic Pollutant
11. What colourless/colorless, odourless/odorless, poisonous polluting gas is chiefly emitted by small
engines typically used in lawn-mowers and chainsaws, etc?
Carbon monoxide
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon Hydroxide
Carbon Filtration

12. What highly toxic element was traditionally used in thermometers, posing a substantial safety and
disposal risk?
Mercury
Halogen
Lead
Arsenic
13. The 1987 Montreal Protocol concerns specifically, and includes in its full title, substances that deplete
what?
The Ozone Layer
Ice caps
glaciers
UV Protection SPF
14. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur/sulfur hexafluoride are widely referred to by what
collective metaphorical term?
Greenhouse Effect Greenhouse Gases Global Warming
Climate change
15. From the Greek root words for 'house' and 'study of' what term refers to the scientific study of the
relationship between living things, and their natural environment?
Ecosystem
Ecology
Environmental Assay
Environmental Hazard
16. An 'R number' identifies what sort of substance having potentially significant impact on global
warming when used in heating/cooling applications?
Refrigerant
Rectifier
Reducer
Reservoir
17. The DuPont trade name Freon has become an alternative name for which abbreviated compound
name strongly associated with global warming?
POP
GMO
Inhalant
CFC
18. The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a
materials:
Life expectancy;
Cost; Thermal resistance;
Tensile strength
19. Which three of these waste products are safe and helpful to compost (and by exception which are
not):
Dairy products, Egg shells, Sawdust, Lard, Fish bones, Tea-bags, Pet waste
20. True or False? Climate Change is caused by natural factors? __________

21. Which country currently emits the most greenhouse gasses?

a. India
b. China
c. United Kingdom
d. United states
22. Which planets poisonous atmosphere has been described as the product of runaway greenhouse
effect?
a. Earth
b. Mars
c. Venus
d. Jupiter
23. Which of the following lightbulb types uses the least energy, and therefore results to lesser
greenhouse gas emission?
a. Incandescent
b. Compact Flourescent
c. Halogen
24. How many human deaths per year does the World Health Organization attribute to Climate Change?
a. 150,000
b. 1,500
c. 1,500,000
d. 10,500
25. How long does it take for Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere to disperse?
a. 1 year
b. 10 years
c. 50 years
d. 100 years
26. Which Arctic animal do scientist consider most vulnerable to extinction due to global warming?
a. Toucans
b. Tropical frogs
c. Polar bears
d. Narwhals
27. True or False? Global warming is accelerated by the reduction of global snow and ice cover?
_____________
28. True or false? A rise in global temperature is expected to increase instances of malaria?
_____________
29. During what time of the day does air travel have the least damaging effect on the environment?
a. Daytime
b. Night time
c. They are equal Damaging
30. Hybrid cars get better gas mileage than cars with the standard engines.
a. Always
b. Sometimes

c. Never
31. Which of the following industries could be negatively affected by the Global warming?
a. Insurance
b. Global Fishing
c. Wine making
d. All of the above