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 Water Pollution Quiz

Welcome to the QuizMoz Water Pollution Quiz. QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced QuizMoz quiz masters. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. Best of luck!!

 Water Pollution Quiz Facts
 Average Score for this quiz: 49%
 No of times this quiz has been taken: 14
 No of people passing this quiz: 9
 No of people failing this quiz: 5
 Maximum score for this quiz: 83%

Coverage : The Water Pollution Quiz is designed to see how much you know about water pollution. Increase your knowledge about various aspects of the adverse effects of human action on our water by taking the Water Pollution Quiz.

1. Water can look clean and still be polluted.
a.Yes
b.No
 
2. Which of the following cannot be affected by water pollution
a.Ground water
b.Lakes
c.Oceans
d.All of the above can be affected by water pollution
 
3. Water pollution is mainly caused by natural factors.
a.Yes
b.No
 
4. What is the name for materials suspended in water that settle to the bottom?
a.Acquifer
b.Eutrophication
c.Pathogen
d.Sediment
 
5. What area is known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”?
a.Baja Mexico
b.Los Angeles
c.Mariana Trench
d.North Pacific Gyre
 
6. What is another name for bacteria and viruses that cause disease?
a.Acquifer
b.Eutrophication
c.Pathogen
d.Sediment
 
7. A 2002/2003 EPA study of Great Lakes swimmers found roughly this percentage contracted respiratory infection or gastroenteritis :
a.3%
b.5%
c.10%
d.15%
 
8. What is the name for the process where a body of water is depleted of oxygen due to contamination by too many nutrients?
a.Acquifer
b.Eutrophication
c.Pathogen
d.Sediment
 
9. Water overloaded with nutrients can cause dangerous algae growth, known as:
a.Black tides
b.Brown tides
c.Pink tides
d.Red tides
 
10. An oil spill from a freighter is an example of:
a.Black tide
b.Brown tide
c.Nonpoint source pollution
d.Point source pollution
 
11. What is the name for the permeable rock layer in which ground water is stored?
a.Acquifer
b.Eutrophication
c.Pathogen
d.Sediment
 
12. Toxic pollutants can alter the genetics of organisms living in the water.
a.Yes
b.No
 

 
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What others think about Water Pollution
By: Alice on 8/28/2008
  Its a very good Quiz. It rocks my socks!!!!!
By: Kath on 8/27/2008
  It's a really good quiz.
By: Aumkar on 8/26/2008
  It was enjoyable.
By: Tracy on 8/25/2008
  Great test. A nice way to gauge one's knowledge
By: Penny on 8/24/2008
  NICE WEBSITE, great quiz!
  


 





 
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