Earth Day Quiz for Kids: Quiz Questions
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Earth Day
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Earth Day Quiz Questions
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Question 1 -
Who designed and created the Earth
Day Flag?
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Question 2 -
On what date is Earth Day celebrated?
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Question 3 -
What was the year of the very first
Earth Day?
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Question 4 -
What American river, polluted by
years of dumping industrial waste and toxic garbage,
caught fire in 1969?
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Question 5 -
What was the name of the book that
helped launch the modern environmental movement?
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Question 6 -
What year was leaded gas introduced
to enhance engine performance of cars?
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Question 7 -
What is the name of the Senator who
is credited as the founder and helped organize the first
"Earth Day"?
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Question 8 -
In which state did the catastrophic
Exxon Valdez oil spill occur?
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Question 9 -
What was the 1979
Three Mile Island
Accident? on March 28, 1979 was a
partial nuclear meltdown that resulted in the release of
unknown amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive
iodine into the environment.
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Question 10 -
What was the name of the space
mission that took the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of
the planet Earth?
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Question 11 -
What was the name
of the president who submitted the executive order to
establish the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)?
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Question 12 -
What was the name of the president
who passed the Clean Air Act of 1963?
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Question 13 -
Who wrote the book entitled
'Pollution and the Death of Man'?
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Question 14 -
What year did National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) begin the Earth Observing System
sending satellites into space to make important global
observations of the planet?
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Question 15 -
In which state did the 2014 Elk River
chemical spill take place?
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Question 16 -
What award did President Bill Clinton
confer on Gaylord Nelson?
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Question 17 -
Why did Congress pass the Endangered
Species Act?
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Question 18 -
How many people now celebrate Earth Day?
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Earth Day Quiz: Quiz Answers
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Earth Day
for kids.
Earth Day Quiz Answers
Quiz Answer 1 -
Environmentalist
John McConnell was the creator of flag. His design was
inspired when he saw the first picture of the Earth
printed in a magazine. The flag is flown all around the
world, showing support of efforts to help the planet and
the people of Earth.
Quiz Answer 2 -
Earth Day is
celebrated on 22 April, during school term time to allow
kids to organize events relating to the environment
Quiz Answer 3 -
The first year
that Earth Day was celebrated was in 1970 when it took
the form of an environmental 'teach-in'.
Quiz Answer 4 -
The 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire disaster
occurred when the Cuyahoga River, in Cleveland Ohio,
caught fire.
Quiz Answer 5 -
The name of the
book that helped to launch the modern environmental
movement was 'Silent Spring' by Rachel Carson which
highlighted the problem of pesticide poisoning.
Quiz Answer 6 -
Leaded gas (gasoline spiked with
lead) was introduced in 1923.
Quiz Answer 7 -
The name of the
Senator who helped organize the first event was Democrat
Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin. Gaylord Nelson became
involved in many of the most important environmental
protection legislation and is credited as the founder of
Earth Day
Quiz Answer 8 -
Alaska. The 1989 ecological disaster known as
the Exxon Valdez oil spill
occured when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 10.9
million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound,
Alaska.
Quiz Answer 9 -
The
Three Mile Island
Accident was a
partial nuclear meltdown in the Pennsylvania power plant that resulted in the release of
unknown amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive
iodine into the environment.
Quiz Answer 10 -
Apollo 17 took the first photograph of the whole
illuminated Earth from space, commonly called the "Blue Marble" photograph.
Quiz Answer 11 -
President Richard
Nixon authorized the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) which was established on December 2, 1970.
Quiz Answer 12 -
President Lyndon
B. Johnson passed the Clean Air Act of 1963
to provide funding for the research and the cleanup of
air pollution. Amendments to the Clean Air Act were made
in 1970 and 1990.
Quiz Answer 13 -
Pollution and the
Death of Man was written by
American author Francis A. Schaeffer, and was published
in 1970
Quiz Answer 14 -
1997. The NASA
Earth Observing System launched a series of artificial
satellite missions into orbit designed for long-term
global observations of the land surface, atmosphere,
biosphere and oceans of the Earth.
Quiz Answer 15 -
West Virginia. The Elk River
chemical spill happened on January 9, 2014 from a
Freedom Industries facility into the Elk River,
Charleston, West Virginia.
Quiz Answer 16 -
Gaylord
Nelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
in 1995 in honor of his environmental work.
Quiz Answer 17 -
Congress passed the 1973 Endangered
Species Act to protect animals and their ecosystems.
Quiz Answer 18 -
Earth Day has become a worldwide
holiday celebrated by over 1 billion people.
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