Flashcards on Global Environmental Problems and Solutions
Global Environmental Problems and Solutions for Students
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Environment
16 cards
Card 1
Question: What are the main environmental problems mentioned that affect the planet's climate?
Answer: Climate change, global warming, and the greenhouse effect leading to rising global temperatures.
Card 2
Question: What are two direct consequences of rising global temperatures?
Answer: Melting of glaciers and rise of sea level.
Card 3
Question: What issue with the ozone layer is highlighted and why is it dangerous?
Answer: The ozone hole lets in dangerous ultraviolet rays.
Card 4
Question: Name some natural disasters that result from environmental changes described.
Answer: Deadly storms, floods, heat waves, droughts, and forest fires.
Card 5
Question: What are common causes of air pollution listed?
Answer: Car exhausts, waste gases, smog, and lead from unleaded petrol.
Card 6
Question: How can certain poisonous gases in the atmosphere harm the earth's surface?
Answer: They can dissolve in the atmosphere and fall as acid rain.
Card 7
Question: What are the main causes of water pollution given in the content?
Answer: Factories releasing dangerous substances into rivers and lakes, and sea pollution from waste and oil releases from tankers.
Card 8
Question: What harmful effect can oil releases from tankers have?
Answer: They kill fish and other species.
Card 9
Question: Where is household and urban waste often dumped?
Answer: In landfills.
Card 10
Question: Why is illegal dumping of industrial toxic chemicals a problem?
Answer: It contaminates the soil and water when chemicals are dumped into rivers or holes in the ground.