1. TOGETHER IN EUROPE FOR BETTER ENVIRONMENT Ecology quiz of Slovak students from Grammar School Nováky Project number COM 1. 1/2006/88p-TN-2

2. A. the adjustment of water flows by straightening the flow, concreting the bottom, removing the bank vegetation C. draining swamps, the extinction of swamp plant species The term biodiversity means : Endemit is : A. an endangered animal C. a place on the Earth which is not changed by a human activity B. variety and changebility between the living organisms and the ecological complexes B. a kind - plant or animal - which occurs or lives in a certain small area and nowhere else

4. Biom is : A. easily distinguished, stable ecotops of plants and animals B. environmental regions changed by man C. endangered spieces of plants and animals

5. Ozone is : A. a moving gas used in sprays B. the bacteria decay of organic mass producing methane, amonium,... C. gas in the height of 20 – 50 km above the Earth surface which creates the protective layer against ultra-violet sun rays Freons are heavily essential : A. bromine-iod hydrocarbons B. chloro-floro hydrocarbons C. phosphoro-nitrogen hydrocarbons

6. Chopping down a tropical rain forest causes : A. reducing soil erosion B. impairing the climatic balance of Earth C. increasing radiation in certain areas of Earth The term deforestation is : A. chopping down forests B. overpopulation C. planting forests

7. What causes desertification ? A. the wrong way of farming the land B. melting glaciers C. making the ozone hole The consequence of deforestation is not : A. the global warming up – the greenhouse effect B. the decrease of the world ocean level C. the loss of the possibility to find some medicine against incurable diseases

8. Tsunami is : A. extremely strong movements of litospheric boards B. long waves of disastrous type which are created by tectonic movements on the bottom of the sea C. transfers of sandy massives, especially in the desert areas Among the factors which pollute water do not belong : A. pathogenic organisms B. radioactivity C. photolysis of water

9. What does not belong to two distinguished types of water pollution ? A. Accident pollution, single and many times with immediate catastrophic impacts, for example the death of water organisms B. Long-term pollution, shown with a more permanent, particularly organic pollution. In general, it influences the water environment negatively, so some kinds of fish in stricken parts of rivers will disappear C. Immediate pollution, shown with the immediate greening of a water level, and a sudden discovery of the untypical fish for this area

10. Which types of the sources do not belong to air pollutants ? A. point (factory chimneys), linear ( motorway), areal ( factory areals, building sites, dumps of loose materials, freshly ploughed fields ) B. ground ( automobile transport, heating ), high ( high factory chimneys) C. partial ( the decay of paced bodies of animals and plants)

11. Among viruses transmitted by water and causing diseases do not belong : A. enteroviruses – polio C. picornaviruses – jaundice B. vibrio cholerae – plague Domestic rubbish does not consist : C. of emissions B. of metals A. of plastics – it is bacteria

12. We thank all the students, who have co-operated on the project and to the teachers, who have helped us. We thank all the students, who have co-operated on the project and to the teachers, who have helped us.