Lesson 1&2

Question 0

Pesticides

Answer 0

Products used on crops to control insects and other pests

Question 1

Pollution

Answer 1

Any dirty or harmful substance in the environment

Question 2

Acid rain

Answer 2

Rain that is far more acidic than normal

Question 3

Smog

Answer 3

A yellow-brown haze that forms when sunlight reacts with air pollution

Question 4

Ozone layer

Answer 4

A shield that protects living things from uv rays

Question 5

Greenhouse effect

Answer 5

The trapping of heat by carbon dioxide and other gases in the air

Question 6

Global warming

Answer 6

Rise in the earths temperature

Question 7

Landfills

Answer 7

Huge pits where wastes are dumped and buried

Question 8

Hazardous wastes

Answer 8

Human-made liquid or solid wastes that may endanger human health and the environment

Question 9

Environmental protection agency

Answer 9

Governmental agency that is committed to protecting the environment.

Question 10

Biodegradable

Answer 10

Broken down easily in the environment

Question 11

Non- renewable resources

Answer 11

Substances that cannot be replaced once they’re used

Question 12

Conservation

Answer 12

The saving of resources

Question 13

Precycling

Answer 13

Reducing waste before it occurs

Question 14

Explain what pollution is.

Answer 14

Pollution is harmful or dirty substances in the environment. There’s air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution.

Question 15

What contributes to air, water, and land pollution?

Answer 15

Air pollution : exhaust from cars pollutes the air with carbon monoxide
Water pollution: trash, sewage, oil spills
Land pollution: trash, hazardous wastes, solid wastes

Question 16

What are strategies to reduce the ways you contribute to pollution?

Answer 16

Don't throw trash out your car window. 
Throw things in trash cans
Recycle, reuse, and reduce
Carpool
Dispose of hazardous wastes correctly 
Don't put trash in water

Question 17

How does pollution effect the environment?

Answer 17

Water pollution:Kills animal in water, makes people sick if they swim in a contained body of water
Air pollution: smog makes people sick, destructed the ozone layer, if ozone layer is gone, you can get skin cancer
Land pollution: effects the soil, gets in the way, hazardous wastes can cause death, or injury

Question 18

What are the 3 rs?

Answer 18

Reduce reuse and recycle. Reduce means to use less. Reuse means to use that product again if able to, and recycle means to put things like paper, metal and plastic in recycling bins to be able to be made into something else.

Question 19

What are some actions individuals can take to protect the environment?

Answer 19

They can reduce reuse and recycle

Pick up trash on the ground

Question 20

What are non renewable resources

Answer 20

Resources that can’t be replaced once they’re used.