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Environmental I.Q.
Potpourri
100
Any substance added to the environment that is harmful to living things.
What is a pollutant?
100
Water that has been purified through the evaporation/ condensation process.
What is distilled water?
100
Any sound in the environment that is annoying, distracting, or that damages hearing.
What is noise pollution?
100
Name one of the three fossil fuels that we burn on a daily basis.
What is coal, natural gas, or petroleum(oil)
100
The capital of the state of Washington.
What is Olympia?
200
An extremely small bit of matter.
What is a particle?
200
A substance that has a pH less than 7.
What is an acid?
200
A measure of a sound's intensity.
What is a decibel?
200
The way that hard water impacts our environment.
What is by causing people to use more soaps and detergents.
200
Name one of the two hosts of Mythbusters.
What are Adam Savage or Jamie Hyneman?
300
In an experiment, the standard of comparison for varifying results.
What is control?
300
A substance that has a pH greater than 7.
What is an alkali?
300
The highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
300
Typically, litter near our coastlines ends up here.
What is in the ocean?
300
The president of the United States from 1992-2000.
What is Bill Clinton?
400
The two main greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
What are methane and carbon dioxide?
400
A method of removing particles from a liquid by passing the fluid through a porous material.
What is filtration?
400
The loudness or softness of a sound.
What is volume?
400
Name three things that we could do to reduce air pollution.
Answers will vary.
400
The capital of Alaska.
What is Juneau?
500
Air pollution can mix with evaporated water in the clouds and cause this.
What is acid rain?
500
The simplest and lightest of the elements.
What is Hydrogen?
500
List three ways that we can reduce noise pollution in our environment.
answers will vary.
500
The percentage of the planet's oil that has been used since the industrial revolution.
What is about 40%?
500
The state with the largest population.
What is California?