Health Lesson 7 - The Most Pressing Environmental Problems in the Philippines

Question 1

Destruction of big areas of forests

Answer 1

DEFORESTATION

Question 2

Sudden flood of great volume, usually caused by a heavy rain.

Answer 2

FLASH FLOOD

Question 3

Extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth. Which the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner in the absence of land rights, mining license or exploration.

Answer 3

ILLEGAL MINING

Question 4

Happens when soil and rock are moved from one place to another by wind, water and gravity.

Answer 4

SOIL EROSION

Question 5

Any alteration of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of water, air and/or land resources.

Answer 5

POLLUTION

Question 6

Any alteration of physical, chemical and biological properties of the atmospheric air.

Answer 6

AIR POLLUTION

Question 7

Any alteration of physical, chemical and biological or radiological properties of a body of water resulting in the impairment of its purity or quality.

Answer 7

WATER POLLUTION

Question 8

Excessive sound that causes hearing loss, stress, fatigue, irritability, tension, headaches, and high blood pressure.

Answer 8

NOISE POLLUTION

Question 9

Caused by chemicals in pesticides, such as poisons that are used to kill agricultural pests like insects and herbicides that are used to get rid of weeds.

Answer 9

SOIL POLLUTION

Question 10

Accidental release of oil into a body of water, as from a tanker, offshore drilling rig, or underwater pipeline, often presenting a hazard to marine life and the environment.

Answer 10

OIL SPILL

Question 11

a significant problem throughout the world. It has been acknowledged that 27% of the world’s reefs have been affected.

Answer 11

CORAL REEF DEGRADATION