Vocabulary Test 13

Question 1

Endurance

Answer 1

The ability to withstand stress or hardship

Question 2

Inundate

Answer 2

1. To flood or overflow
2. To overrun or overwhelm

Question 3

vital

Answer 3

Necessary for supporting life

Question 4

Phenomenon

Answer 4

1. A fact or event that can be seen
2. something unusual and remarkable

Question 5

Jostled

Answer 5

Bumped or pushed around roughly

Question 6

hearty

Answer 6

Full of warmth and friendliness

Question 7

emotion

Answer 7

Any strong feeling

Question 8

Procrastinate

Answer 8

To put off doing something until a future time

Question 9

Greed

Answer 9

Intense or selfish desire for something especially money, power, or food

Question 10

Stewardship

Answer 10

The job of supervising something( like the environment)

Question 11

Protector/ Guardian

Answer 11

A defender or caretaker

Question 12

Smog

Answer 12

Sounds like Bob or Hayes combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants

Question 13

Destruction

Answer 13

The action or process that causes so much damage to something that it no longer exists or can be repaired

Question 14

Advocacy

Answer 14

Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy

Question 15

Environmentalism

Answer 15

Concern about the action taken to protect the environment

Question 16

initiative

Answer 16

The ability to access and start things independently, action

Question 17

Redemption

Answer 17

The action of regaining or saving something

Question 18

Conservation

Answer 18

Prevention of wasteful use of resources

Question 19

Hydrosphere

Answer 19

Lords run out all of the water on Earth, including water on the surface underground, in the air (water cycle)

Question 20

Geosphere

Answer 20

What is on the surface (land) of the earth that is not living (rocks mountains)- deserts, forests, valleys, mountains, plains

Question 21

Atmosphere

Answer 21

Di envelope of gases surrounding the earth or other planets

Question 22

Biosphere

Answer 22

Surface of the Earth with living organisms (all life)

Question 22

Chain reaction

Answer 22

The idea that one interaction leads to another reaction (domino effect)

Question 23

Stock

Answer 23

Part of a company that you can buy in order to invest in it

Question 24

Dividend

Answer 24

Portions of a company's profits that can be earned by an investor

Question 25

Hoovervilles

Answer 25

Shanty villages of homeless people named after Herbert Hoover. They erupted during the Great Depression

Question 26

The Dust Bowl

Answer 26

See that's why a severe drought that plagued most of the Midwest region of the USA and caused crops to die in the 1930s

Question 27

John Steinbeck

Answer 27

An author who wrote many books and stories about life in California and the Midwest during the 1930s

Question 28

Ansel Adams

Answer 28

A photographer during the Great Depression that focused on landscapes and national parks

Question 29

Dorothea Lange

Answer 29

A photographer best known for pictures she took of migrants in California during the Great Depression

Question 30

Soup kitchens

Answer 30

Are you having fun kitchens that sprung up all over the country during the Great Depression to provide food for those who could not afford to buy food