TOGETHER IN EUROPEFOR BETTER ENVIRONMENT

Ecology quiz of Slovak students

from Grammar School NovákyProject number COM 1. 1/2006/88p-TN-2

A. the adjustment of water flows by straightening the flow, concreting the bottom, removing the bank vegetation

C. draining swamps, the extinction of swamp plant species

The term biodiversity means :

Endemit is :A. an endangered animal

C. a place on the Earth which is not changed by a human activity

B. variety and changebility between the living organisms and the ecological complexes

B. a kind - plant or animal - which occurs or lives in a certain small area and nowhere else

Biom is :

A. easily distinguished, stable ecotops of plants and animals

B. environmental regions changed by man

C. endangered spieces of plants and animals

Ozone is :A. a moving gas used in sprays

B. the bacteria decay of organic mass producing methane, amonium, ... C. gas in the height of 20 – 50 km above the Earth surface which creates the protective layer against ultra-violet sun rays

Freons are heavily essential :A. bromine-iod hydrocarbons

B. chloro-floro hydrocarbonsC. phosphoro-nitrogen hydrocarbons

Chopping down a tropical rain forest causes : A. reducing soil erosion B. impairing the climatic balance of Earth C. increasing radiation in certain areas of Earth

The term deforestation is :A. chopping down forestsB. overpopulationC. planting forests

What causes desertification ?

A. the wrong way of farming the land

B. melting glaciersC. making the ozone hole

The consequence of deforestation is not :A. the global warming up – the greenhouse effectB. the decrease of the world ocean levelC. the loss of the possibility to find some medicine against incurable diseases

Tsunami is :A. extremely strong movements of litospheric boards B. long waves of disastrous type which are created by tectonic movements on the bottom of the seaC. transfers of sandy massives, especially in the desert areas

Among the factors which pollute water do not belong :A. pathogenic organisms

B. radioactivity

C. photolysis of water

What does not belong to two distinguished types of water pollution ? A. Accident pollution, single and many times with immediate catastrophic impacts, for example the death of water organisms B. Long-term pollution, shown with a more permanent, particularly organic pollution. In general, it influences the water environment negatively, so some kinds of fish in stricken parts of rivers will disappearC. Immediate pollution, shown with the immediate greening of a water level, and a sudden discovery of the untypical fish for this area

Which types of the sources do not belong to air pollutants ?

A. point (factory chimneys), linear ( motorway), areal ( factory areals, building sites, dumps of loose materials, freshly ploughed fields )

B. ground ( automobile transport, heating ), high ( high factory chimneys)C. partial ( the decay of paced bodies of animals and plants)

Among viruses transmitted by water and causing diseases do not belong :

A. enteroviruses – polio

C. picornaviruses – jaundice

B. vibrio cholerae – plague

Domestic rubbish does not consist :

C. of emissionsB. of metalsA. of plastics

– it is bacteria

We thank all the students, who have co-operated on the project and to the teachers, who have helped us.