Environment

Question 1

What is an environment?

Answer 1

All the physical surroundings on earth where plants and animals live

Question 2

What is conservation?

Answer 2

Protecting our environment and the wildlife that lives in it

Question 3

What is overfishing?

Answer 3

The overharvesting of fish and marine animals

Question 4

What is a coral reef?

Answer 4

A structure in shallow ocean areas that is formed mainly by stonelike coral skeletons

Question 5

What are mangrove swamps?

Answer 5

Trees or bushes that grow in thick clusters along seashores and riverbanks

Question 6

What is preservation?

Answer 6

To keep safe from injury, harm or destruction

Question 7

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 7

A community of interacting organisms and their environment

Question 8

What is Habitat Loss?

Answer 8

When we clear away trees and other plants to make room for people, animals and plants lose their habitats

Question 9

What are forest fires?

Answer 9

Large uncontrolled fires that that take place in the forest

Question 10

What is a river?

Answer 10

A natural stream of water larger that a brook or creek

Question 11

What is a lake?

Answer 11

Bodies of water surrounded on all sides by land

Question 12

What is a pond?

Answer 12

Small bodies of still, or not moving, fresh water that are surrounded by land

Question 13

What are seas?

Answer 13

The body of salt water that covers the greater part of the surface of the Earth

Question 14

What are oceans?

Answer 14

A huge body of salt water

Question 15

What are forests?

Answer 15

A land area that is populated by many trees

Question 16

What are grasslands?

Answer 16

Wide expanses of land filled with low growing plants such as grasses and wildflowers

Question 17

What are desserts?

Answer 17

A dry place that receives little or almost no rainfall

Question 18

What are tundras?

Answer 18

A large, barren region with no trees

Question 19

What are the different types of soil?

Answer 19

Loam/garden soil, Sandy soil, Clay soil, Desert soil, Grasslands soil, Forest soil and Tundra soil

Question 20

What are the main types of soil?

Answer 20

Loam/ garden soil, sandy soil and clay soil

Question 21

What does it mean when you recyle?

Answer 21

Making rubbish into something new

Question 22

What does it mean when you reuse?

Answer 22

To use items instead of throwing them away

Question 23

What does it mean when you reduce?

Answer 23

To lessen anything that causes garbage

Question 24

What does it mean when you refuse?

Answer 24

Resist plasic products that harm the environment

Question 25

What is climate change?

Answer 25

Any significant change in earth’s climate patterns for an extended period of time

Question 26

What is climate?

Answer 26

The average weather conditions of a place over many years

Question 27

What is global warming?

Answer 27

Increasing of the temperature in the atmosphere

Question 28

What is solid waste?

Answer 28

Garbage, Rubbish, Trash…etc

Question 29

What are vectors?

Answer 29

Insects that spread diseases

Question 30

Whatis waterborne?

Answer 30

A water-borne disease or infection isone that people can catch from infected water.

Question 31

What are diseases?

Answer 31

Diseases are illnesses

Question 32

What are landfills?

Answer 32

Special area designated to deposit soild wastes

Question 33

What is composting

Answer 33

Using organic waste it nourish the soil

Question 34

What is incineration?

Answer 34

Burning garbage properly in a designated container