The forest in the mountain was being cleared out. Everytime it rains, there is more flooding in the city. Why is there more flooding if there are less trees in mountains?
Because there are fewer trees to absorb the rain water.
TRUE or FALSE:
Turning off the lights when leaving your house is a good way to help reduce air pollution.
TRUE
What do you call the act of cutting down the trees and clearing out forests for human purposes?
Deforestation
Which gas can cause air pollution? [oxygen, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, water vapor, helium]
carbon monoxide
Give one effect of acid rain.
Any of these:
1. destruction of buildings and statues
2. dying of plants/trees
3. dying of insects
4. dying of frogs
5. dying of fishes
6. itchy skin
TRUE or FALSE:
One way that we can help save the environment is by cutting down forest trees.
FALSE
In which habitat can we find this food chain? [desert, rainforest, savannah, arctic forest?]
Savannah
Instead of using coal power plants, we can have other power sources that are good for the environment. Give one example.
Wind turbines, solar panels, dam/ wind energy, solar energy, hydropower or hydroelectric energy, hydrothermal energy
Give one reason why people cut down trees and clear out forests.
Any of these:
1. earn money
2. build buildings
3. make furnitures
4. for farmland
5. for mining
6. to expand cities
7. to burn as fuel
What is the role of this organism in the environment? [producer, predator, prey, decomposer ?]
decomposer
[crocodile, chicken, snake, mosquito, duck, human]
Which one of them is a "prey" of the frog?
mosquito
What do you call this diagram?
Food chain
Which of the following animal is a consumer of this plant? [lion, snake, mouse, owl, cheetah, frog]
mouse
Plants need sunlight, water, and which gas to make food?
carbon dioxide
The heating up of planet earth due to less number of trees caused by too much deforestation is called .................................
Global Warming
Which gas can cause acid rain? [oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, helium]
nitrogen oxide
In a food chain, if animals are called "consumers", what do you call the plants?
producers
[cow, giraffe, snail, eagle, earthworm, deer]
Which one of them is a predator?
Eagle
What event is shown in this picture?
Acid Rain
"I am a businessman who sells furnitures made of wood." Does this person support deforestation? Yes or No.
Yes, he does.
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