Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Environment Your enviro-PANIQuiz for the week of July 12
Posted by Jim Poyser on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM
The ApocaDocs, Jim and Michael, present the Pre-Apocalypse News & Info Quiz (PANIQuiz) each week to test your knowledge of current environmental issues and news.
See: http://www.apocadocs.com for daily updates
This Week's PANIQuestions (Answers below):
1. What is killing farmed salmon?
a. Fox
b. Each other
c. Corrosive, acidified waters
d. Farmers-turned-hunters
e. An epidemic of infectious disease
2. What are rising sea levels making Panamanians do?
a. Put themselves on stilts.
b. Grow gills.
c. Move to the mainland.
d. Put houses on stilts.
e. Buy floaties.
3. What do researchers say is happening to the Puget Sound?
a. It makes TOO much noise.
b. Its waters are growing more corrosive.
c. It's getting cleaner and cleaner.
d. It is infested with giant jellyfish.
e. It doesn't make enough noise.
4. How are Kenyan farmers reacting to the environmental stresses on
their livelihoods?
a. Going solar.
b. Going postal.
c. Committing suicide.
d. Hiring chimpanzees to help.
e. Quitting to work at Wal-Mart.
5. Why did Kellogg pull 28 million cereal boxes from store shelves?
a. They had a misspelling on the box: Froot Loops.
b. Just for poops and laughs.
c. They did not contain a "treasure."
d. They were contaminated by methylnaphthalene.
e. Emerald Ash Borers had infested the cereal.
6. What are African national parks troubled by?
a. Elephants who attack tourists.
b. Empty concessions stands.
c. Cigarette butts.
d. Drunken revelers.
e. Large declines in mammal populations.
7. What is a new, novel use of pesticides and herbicides in China?
a. As ingestion for suicide.
b. As bombs against the government.
c. As a "spice" for rice dishes.
d. As a way of nourishing flowers and plants.
e. As punishment for bad Chinese children.
8. What have German researchers linked to air traffic pollution?
a. Woad wage.
b. Sales of respirators.
c. Type II diabetes.
d. Cars and trucks.
e. Withering roadside flowers.
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Answers:
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1. What is killing farmed salmon?
Correct Answer: (e): An epidemic of infectious disease
See "What's Killing Farmed Salmon? New Virus May Also Pose Risk to
Wild Salmon" (Columbia University)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100709210823.htm
2. What are rising sea levels making Panamanians do?
Correct Answer: (c): Move to the mainland.
See "Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland" (Reuters)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18154792.htm
3. What do researchers say is happening to the Puget Sound?
Correct Answer: (b): Its waters are growing more corrosive.
See "Puget Sound waters now more corrosive" (Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012338264_acidification13m.html
4. How are Kenyan farmers reacting to the environmental stresses on
their livelihoods?
Correct Answer: (c): Committing suicide.
See "Climate-related farmer suicides surging in eastern Kenya"
(Reuters)
http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/60167/2010/06/12-130113-1.htm
5. Why did Kellogg pull 28 million cereal boxes from store shelves?
Correct Answer: (d): They were contaminated by methylnaphthalene.
See "Hydrocarbons in Cereal Stoke New Debate Over Food Safety" (New
York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/07/13/13greenwire-hydrocarbons-in-cereal-stoke-new-debate-over-f-30342.html
6. What are African national parks troubled by?
Correct Answer: (e): Large declines in mammal populations.
See "Africa's National Parks Hit by Mammal Declines" (via
ScienceDaily)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100712141851.htm
7. What is a new, novel use of pesticides and herbicides in China?
Correct Answer: (a): As ingestion for suicide.
See "A Pesticide Plan to Prevent Suicide" (Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/07/15/a-pesticide-plan-to-prevent-suicide/
8. What have German researchers linked to air traffic pollution?
Correct Answer: (c): Type II diabetes.
See "Diabetes linked to traffic air pollution; risk increases with
Inflammation" (Environmental Health News)
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/diabetes-linked-to-traffic-air-pollution-and-inflammation/
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