1. What is the main job of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
- A. To create national parks.
- B. To keep the environment safe.
- C. To help factories make more money.
- D. To study animals in the wild.
2. Which of the following is an example of a law passed by the government to keep the environment healthy?
- A. The Tree Planting Act
- B. The Clean Water Act
- C. The Factory Building Act
- D. The School Safety Act
3. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created to protect which parts of the environment?
- A. Only the oceans and beaches
- B. Only the national parks
- C. The air, water, and land
- D. Only the forests in California
4. In 1970, what new government group was formed to protect the environment?
- A. The Tree Musketeers
- B. The Clean Water Agency
- C. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- D. The National Park Service
5. Why did the U.S. government create groups like the EPA in the 1970s?
- A. To follow rules from other countries.
- B. To respond to public worries about pollution.
- C. Because factories needed more workers.
- D. To build more national highways for cars.
6. What happened in 1969 to cause a large oil spill off the coast of California?
- A. A large ship carrying oil crashed into the shore.
- B. An oil drilling platform in the ocean broke and started leaking.
- C. A factory accidentally released oil into a river that flowed to the sea.
- D. An underwater oil pipeline burst open during a major storm.
7. What was the main demand from the American people after the Santa Barbara oil spill?
- A. That all oil companies be shut down immediately.
- B. New government laws to protect the air and water.
- C. Financial payment for every citizen in California.
- D. That the cleanup be done only by volunteers.
8. The 1969 event where a broken oil platform leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean is known as what?
- A. The California Clean Water Act
- B. The Pacific Ocean Disaster
- C. The Santa Barbara oil spill
- D. The Union Oil Blowout
9. Besides harming animals, what was a major effect of the 1969 oil spill on the land?
- A. It caused permanent flooding in coastal towns.
- B. Thick, dark oil coated many miles of beaches.
- C. It made the soil unable to grow any plants.
- D. The spill started large fires along the shore.
10. The major environmental disaster in 1969 involving a massive oil leak happened off the coast of which state?
- A. Florida
- B. Texas
- C. Alaska
- D. California