Many seniors got this correct, and many students identified oak, maple, pine, etc. However, most students did not specify the type of oak or maple, and we accepted those answers as correct. Questions 4 and 5. Name one pervasive environmental problem in this region, and name one global environmental problem. As you can see in Figure 4, slightly more than half the responses were considered correct for the pervasive regional problem.
Asterisks indicate a correct response.
Many of the miscellaneous incorrect answers, as well as water pollution, were considered to global to be correct for the regional response. For question 5, Figure 5 shows the range of responses. Figure 6 shows the results of these three questions. For each question, incorrect responses are a darker shade of each color, and the correct answer is a lighter or brighter shade of the color. Larger percentages of students knew both the population of the United States and the Earth, but the population of Pennsylvania was known by a smaller percentage of students.