Leon 2-6 Martie 2009-Town Hall

Pollution Quiz

Colegiul National de Arta “Octav Bancila” Iasi
Comenius Multilateral Project 2008-2010
Lichens and Atmospheric Pollution


Atmospheric Pollution Quiz



1.The atmospheric pollution is important for:
A: the aliens
B: our ancestors
C. ourselves and the generation to come
D: the solar system

2.Which of the following events make pollution occur?
A: burning petrol in cars and lorries
B: spilling chemicals in rivers and lakes, spilling oil in the oceans
C: nuclear experiments/accidents in the oceans
D: all already mentioned

3.Is there any natural resource that can cause pollution? If yes, which one?
A: fossil fuels
B: forest fires
C: oil spills
D: Volcanic eruption

4.What are the lichens?
A: a symbiotic partnership between a green alga and a fungus
B: a superior plant
C: a root
D: a fruit


5.What do lichens indicate?
A: pollution
B: friendship
C: cold days
D: fog

6.What types of lichens do you know?
A: crustose (flat and crusty)
B: foliose (leafy)
C: fucticose (shrubby)
D: all the above and combinations

7.When driving, gases and dust raise into the atmosphere. What do they form afterwards?
A: acid rain
B: rain
C: clouds
D: snow

8.What do you think it happens when people dump toxic wastes from homes or factories into oceans, lakes, rivers?
A: they flow to other waters
B: they kill animals and plants living there
C: they cause water pollution
D: B and C

9.How do people pollute the land?
A: littering
B: recycling
C: storing
D: walking

10. Is it important to conserve water and why?
A: we all need it to survive
B: it’s nice to drink when it’s hot outside
C: we need it to swim
D: we need water to play

11.Which of these is a way to reduce pollution?
A: use the school/company bus
B: take the public transport bus
C: recycle
D: all mentioned

12.Three of the main ways to conserve the Earth resources start with the letter R. What are they?
A: restaure, reuse, recycle
B: rewind, reuse, recycle
C: reduce, reuse, recycle,
D: revive, reduce, recycle

13.Which of the following things can you recycle?
A: paper
B: steel
C: polystyrene
D: silk

14.Which of these are natural resources on our planet?
A: water
B: minerals
C: air
D: all already mentioned

15.Which of the following are non-renewable resources on our planet?
A: metals
B: sunlight
C: wind
D: plants

COMENIUS MULTILATERAL PROJECT
LICHENS AND THE ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION


THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF THE EARTH ATMOSPHERE

1. YOU SHALL TREAT THYE EARTH WITH RESPECT, AS IT IS YOUR HOME AND YOUR LIFE RESOURCE.
2. YOU SHALL NOT CUT A TREE, UNLESS YOU’VE PLANTED THREE PREVIOUSLY.
3. YOU SHALL HAVE GOOD LAWS AGAINST CUTTING TREES RANDOMLY OR DESTROY THE ANIMALS’ NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
4. YOU SHALL PROTECT WILD ANIMALS.
5. YOU SHALL CONSUME LESS ENERGY.
6. YOU SHALL RECYCLE GARBAGE.
7. YOU SHALL NOT POLLUTE THE ATMOSPHERE WITH TOXIC GASES OR THE WATERS WITH TOXIC WASTES.
8. YOU SHALL NOT LEAVE GARBAGE WHEN YOU GO TO A PICNIC.
9. YOU SHALL USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR YOU SHALL WALK RATHER THAN USE YOUR OWN CAR.
10. YOU SHALL EDUCATE THE YOUNG GENERATION HOW TO KEEP THE ATMOSPHERE CLEAR AND CLEAN AND YOU SHALL BE ALWAYS AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURE IN ALL THE ACTION YOU’LL TAKE IN YOUR LIFE.