Environment Vocabulary Quiz

You can do this 20-question quiz online or print it on paper. It tests your understanding of our Environment Vocabulary page.

1. Many factories _______ harmful pollutants into the atmosphere.

minimize donate emit

2. You can _______ plastic bags again and again until they get holes in them.

reuse resume reduce

3. Americans _______ many products that are sold with excess packaging.

consume protect pollute

4. Burning fossil fuels can cause _______ to fall from the clouds.

smog carbon footprints acid rain

5. You can _______ organic household waste by having a compost bin in the garden.

protect recycle fertilize

6. Instead of throwing away old clothes, _______ them to organizations that help poor people.

consume donate emit

7. The company is _______ an ancient forest in order to sell the wood.

clear-cutting reducing recycling

8. Which is an example of climate change?

reforestation global warming air pollution

9. Environmentalists understand the importance of _______ forests and wetlands.

minimizing banning preserving

10. We will _______ if the government supports fossil fuel companies instead of tackling global warming.

prevent protest protect

11. Energy-efficient vehicles and appliances use

no energy more energy less energy

12. Regulations only stop factories from _______ the environment if they're enforced.

protecting consuming polluting

13. We should _______ pollutants that seriously damage our health or the environment.

emit use up ban

14. Which can cause serious health or environmental problems?

hazardous waste domestic waste recycled waste

15. If you're working for a reforestation project you're probably _______ trees.

planting clearcutting poisoning

16. The protection and preservation of natural resources and the environment is called

contamination conservation protectionism

17. To stop global warming we have to use _______ energy like solar and wind.

self-sufficient fossil-fuel renewable

18. Gases that stop heat from escaping into space are called _______ gases.

green greenhouse zero-emission

19. The place in which a plant, animal, bird or fish normally lives is its

habitat food chain eco-community

20. We're going to live in an environmentally-friendly

ecosystem ecovillage habitat

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