Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
1. Which crop would be most
affected by the disappearance of
pollinators?
3. What is clay soil mixed with
other materials, molded into
blocks and then fire-hardened or
air dried?
5. What is land capable of being
plowed and of growing crops?
7. What is kwashiorkor?
A. soybeans
B. corn
C. wheat
A. bricks
B. asphalt
C. gravel
A. arable land
B. fragile land
C. depleted soil
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
1. How many people live on the
earth now?
A. about 7 billion
B. about 1 billion
C. about 4 billion
CORRECT: A, A
3. What are ecosystem services
that provide non-material
benefits to humans?
A. cultural services
B. provisioning services
C. supporting services
A. protein malnutrition
B. starvation
C. a vitamin D deficiency
5. What critical nutrient do plants
need for making proteins,
chlorophyll and enzymes?
A. nitrogen
B. phosphorus
C. sulphur
7. How much water does the UN
recommend to meet a person's
yearly minimum water needs for
domestic, industrial and
agricultural uses?
A. 1000 cubic meters
B. 100 cubic meters
C. 500 cubic meters
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
2. Which federal agency helps
out in an emergency?
4. What is it when overgrazing
and/or drought converts arable
land to desert?
6. What is critical for acting as a
solvent for metabolic processes
in organisms?
A. desertification
B. deforestation
C. overgrazing
A. water
B. calories
C. oxygen
8. What nutrient deficiency
disease has the symptoms of
bowed legs or knock-knees,
bone tenderness and easily
broken bones?
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
4. Into which category of
ecosystem services would fish
production best fit?
6. What critical nutrient do plants
need for making cell walls?
A. Federal Emergency
Management Administration
(FEMA)
B. US Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
C. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
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2. What are eocystem services
that provide critical resources for
humans?
A. provisioning services
B. supporting services
C. regulating services
A. provisioning
B. supporting
C. regulating
A. calcium
B. sulphur
C. potassium
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. rickets
B. starvation
C. kwashiorkor
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8. How many people in the world
do not have access to clean,
drinkable water?
A. more than 10%
B. 1 to 2%
C. 3 to 5%
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
9. What are the structures and
services a society uses to enable
the movement of people, energy
and materials
11. Who designs buildings?
13. What is a mixture of water,
aggregate and cement that can
be molded into hard solids of
different shapes?
15. What is it when all the trees
in a forest or woodland are
removed and not replanted?
A. infrastructure
B. parking lots
C. buildings
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
9. How much does improved
sanitation reduce cases of
diarrhea?
A. by about 25%
B. by about 10%
C. by about 5%
A. architects
B. foresters
C. agronomists
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
11. For a refugee camp, after
you take care of water, food and
shelter, what do you need to
have?
A. a way to handle sewage
B. a grocery store
C. television
A. bricks
B. concrete
C. cement
A. salinization
B. deforestation
C. overgrazing
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
13. What are ecosystem services
that aid other ecosystem
services?
A. cultural services
B. supporting services
C. regulating services
15. Into which category of
ecosystem services would the
view of a landscape best fit?
A. supporting
B. cultural
C. provisioning
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
10. Who manages forests for
different timber production,
wildlife and wateshed protection?
12. Which federal agency
regulates and protects public
drinking water systems?
14. What is a semi-solid form of
petrolum used for surfacing
roads?
16. What is it when continued
irrigation leaves salty minerals in
the soil making it hard for plants
to grow?
A. foresters
B. agronomists
C. civil engineers
A. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
B. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
C. US Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
A. cement
B. asphalt
C. gravel
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10. Who collects scientific,
management and compliance
data on fisheries catches?
A. fishery monitors
B. humanitarian supply officers
C. shelter and reconstruction
coordinators
CORRECT: A, A
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14. Into which category of
ecosystem services would
pollination best fit?
A. regulating
B. supporting
C. provisioning
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
12. Human population growth is
1.1% per year. At this rate, how
long before the population
doubles? (doubling time =
70/growth rate)
A. about 30 years
B. about 60 years
C. about 15 years
16. What critical nutrient do
plants need for making dna and
rna?
A. potassium
B. phosphorus
C. sulphur
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
A. deforestation
B. salinization
C. desertification
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
17. How long can a human being
last without water - on average?
19. What nutrient deficiency
causes wasting and fatigue?
21. Who improves crops through
breeding, biotechnology and
changing cultural practices?
23. Which federal agency
regulates and protects bottled
drinking water?
A. about 10 days
B. about 3 days
C. about 1 day
A. pellagra
B. starvation
C. kwashiorkor
A. architects
B. agronomists
C. civil engineers
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
17. Which sources of energy
could be used to turn blades or
turbines to generate electricity?
19. How many people in the
world do not have access to
toilets?
A. US Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
B. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
C. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
A. batteries
B. wind or water
C. solar panels
A. about 10 million
B. about 1 billion
C. about 1 million
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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21. Who does program and
technical aspects of shelter and
infrastructure reconstruction?
A. humanitarian supply officers
B. shelter and reconstruction
coordinators
C. fishery monitors
CORRECT: B, B
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23. What are services provided
by nature to humans in the
course of its (nature's) normal
functioning?
A. clean up services
B. religious services
C. ecosystem services
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
18. What nutrient deficiency
disease has the symptoms of
muscle wasting, enlarged
abdomen and reddish hair?
20. How many upright studs do
you need to frame the walls of a
house 32' x 32'? Use this
formula: number of studs = ((wall
length in feet x 12") / 16") x 4
walls.
22. Which of these global
agencies works to end hunger
and poverty and for the
sustainable use of resources?
24. What is limestone that has
been converted to calcium oxide
by heating, and then been
ground fine?
A. US Agency for International
Development (USAID)
B. Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
C. UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHRC)
A. gravel
B. bricks
C. cement
A. rickets
B. kwashiorkor
C. pellagra
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18. What is a country's 'internal
renewable water resource'?
A. the amount of water in its
rivers
B. its average annual rainfall
C. the amount of water in its
lakes
CORRECT: B, B
A. 384
B. 96
C. 32
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Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
20. Refugee space needs are 10
square meters per person. How
many could you fit on a football
field? (figure 91 m x 48 m)
22. Which of these causes the
most deaths of children under 5
world wide?
A. 25
B. 440
C. 100
A. injuries
B. diarrhea
C. cancer
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
24. What are ecosystem services
involved in cycling matter and
energy and in regulating
populations?
A. supporting services
B. provisioning services
C. regulating services
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
25. What is wood that has been
cut into beams, planks or studs?
27. What is it when the
movement of wind or water
carries away the upper layers of
soil?
29. What nutrient deficiency
disease has the symptoms of
rash, sores, swollen mouth, red
tongue, fatigue and memory
loss?
31. It takes about 1 ton of asphalt
to cover 1 foot of a four lane
highway. How many tons would
be needed for a mile of highway?
A. wood chips
B. cord wood
C. lumber
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
25. Into which category of
ecosystem services would
carbon cycling best fit?
A. supporting
B. provisioning
C. regulating
CORRECT: C, C
A. salinization
B. desertification
C. erosion
A. rickets
B. starvation
C. pellagra
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A. 1 ton
B. 10,560 tons
C. 5,280 tons
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
27. What critical nutrient do
plants need for root growth,
formation of starch and to open
and close stomata?
A. calcium
B. sodium
C. potassium
29. How many countries do not
have enough rainfall to meet
minimum needs of their
populations?
A. about 30 countries
B. about 20 countries
C. more than 40 countries
CORRECT: C, C
31. Who takes care of sourcing,
transporting and warehousing
supplies for displaced persons?
A. fishery monitors
B. shelter and reconstruction
coordinators
C. humanitarian supply officers
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
Grades 6-8 Critical Resources
26. What is it when cattle, goats
or other livestock eat up most or
all of the plants in an area?
28. What is it when food is
scarce over a wide region?
30. What is critical for providing
building blocks for enzymes
needed for metabolism?
32. Who designs and builds
roads, bridges, and sewers?
A. erosion
B. deforestation
C. overgrazing
A. a food shortage
B. crop failure
C. famine
A. water
B. iron
C. proteins
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A. architects
B. foresters
C. civil engineers
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
Grades 9-12 Critical Resources
26. What is the stock of natural
ecosystems that provide services
valuable to humans?
A. cultural services
B. financial capital
C. natural capital
CORRECT: C, C
28. Which of these global
agencies has primary
responsibility for care of
displaced persons?
A. Federal Emergency
Management Administration
(FEMA)
B. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
C. UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHRC)
CORRECT: C, C
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30. What is sanitation that
prevents contact between
humans and their excrement?
32. Who ensures safe and
proper installation and operation
of solar systems and
troubleshooting solar issues?
A. going in the bushes
B. bucket latrine
C. a piped sewer system
A. fishery monitors
B. shelter and reconstruction
coordinators
C. solar field managers
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
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