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Latin America Environmental Problems
Test Description: What do you know about pollution.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How does geography play a role in Mexico City’s air pollution problem?
A
The city has views of distant snowcapped mountains.
B
It is one of the world’s largest cities.
C
The cars and factories send pollution such as lead, sulfur, and carbon monoxide into the air.
D
It lies in a bowl-shaped valley that traps air pollutants.
2) What are the main sources of air pollution in Mexico City?
A
factories and cars
B
the high altitude
C
cars that produce little or no air pollution
D
intense sunlight
3) Which solution to Mexico City’s air pollution problem would be most challenging to businesses?
A
having employees ride trains or buses to work
B
asking citizens to leave their cars at home one day a week
C
using fuels that produce less pollution
D
closing factories one day a week
4) Which is a problem associated with deforestation?
A
Poor people earn money from selling trees.
B
More oxygen is available on the planet.
C
There is less forest to produce goods that humans need.
D
Native people have too much forest for their needs.
5) What is the main crop grown in areas of deforestation?
A
Brazil nuts
B
cocoa
C
soybeans
D
rubber
6) The world gets about 20 percent of which resource from the Amazon rain forest?
A
medicine
B
soybeans
C
rubber
D
oxygen
7) What problem has been caused by oil production in Venezuela?
A
Lake Maracaibo has become the largest lake in South America.
B
The coast along the Caribbean Sea has been polluted with oil.
C
About 15 percent of U.S. oil comes from Venezuela.
D
Venezuela is more polluted than other South American countries.
8) Why might the Venezuelan government NOT want to stop oil production in the country, even though it causes a lot of pollution?
A
The government does not care about the damage to the environment.
B
The government gets about half of its money from the oil business.
C
People in Venezuela do not care about the environment as much as other people.
D
People along Lake Maracaibo are now protected by a dike to prevent flooding.
9) Who is affected first by carbon dioxide pollution?
A
farmers along Lake Maracaibo
B
healthy adults
C
children and the elderly
D
fisherman along the Caribbean coast
10) Which problem is associated with too much carbon dioxide in the air?
A
oil slicks on the Caribbean coastline
B
algal bloom
C
cooler air trapped at Earth’s surface
D
breathing problems
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