ENVIRONMENTAL QUIZ REVIEWER - 2.doc

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 Geophysicl Astronomicl Ser!ices A"ministrtion #PAGASA$  is the agency that forecasts weather reports in the Philippines. 3. A glass bottle bottle will take take %&&& yers to decompose if it’s not recycled 4. Plastic Plastic tak take e %'& years ust to begin decomposing. decomposing. !t takes another "# to $# years to be completely decomposed. ". %nly %nly () of plastic shopping bags are recycled. &. 'hen a newspaper is recycled( recycled( it takes takes only se!en "ys from to become a brand new newspaper) *. %&) of drinking water comes from plastic bottles. $. +or every tonnes of paper recycled( (* trees are saved. ,. +*,&&& trees are cut down each day so we can have -oilet Paper. 1#. Aci" rin is a result of air pollution. 'hen any type of fuel is burnt( lots of dierent chemicals are produced. -./.shim 0iichi is the powerful earth/uake which hit 0apan on 11th arch 11. -./.shim 2#11 caused a tsunami which added to the destruction of millions of people’s homes and livelihoods. 12.Glo1l 2rmin3 is the increase of average world temperatures as a result of what is known as the greenhouse eect. 13. 4io"i!ersity describes the whole range of the dierent varieties of living things and systems on this earth. 14. Poll.tion is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. 1". Poll.tion is caused when harmful or poisonous substances are released or found in the air( rivers( seas( animals( plants or even our bodies. 1&.A mir3e is a phenomenon where you think you see water. water. 1*.A ts.nmi is a huge volume of moving seawater. seawater. -hese giant waves can travel for thousands of miles across the sea and still have enough energy and force to destroy buildings( trees( wildlife and people. 1$.-he word ts.nmi pronounced sooA5mee6 is 0apanese( and it means 7harbour wave’. 1,. O5one is a naturally occurring gas found in the atmosphere where it absorbs most of the sun8s ultraviolet light  invisible rays which are harmful to both plant and animal life. 2#.A rin1o2 is sunlight spread out into an arc of colours and seen by your eyes when the sun shines through water droplets 21.-he El Ni6o eect 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 Paci9c %cean. -he Peruvians named the phenomenon 7:l i;o’ < the =hrist child( because it tends to begin around =hristmas. 22. Rin7orests are forests which grow in areas of high h igh rainfall. 23.