Wind, water, solar, and biomass are examples of this type of energy
What is renewable energy?
100
Nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil
What is composting?
100
The average weather conditions of an area measured over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
Three ways to decrease waste
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
200
A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.
What is petroleum or oil?
200
Foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers
What is organic food?
200
Gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxides, in Earth’s lower atmosphere, that trap heat.
What are greenhouse gasses?
200
This material is recyclable and made of sand
What is glass?
300
A fossil fuel that is found deep below the earth’s surface and is pumped out.
What is nuclear energy?
300
When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of this greenhouse gas
What is methane?
300
The concentrations of greenhouse gases started to rise, around 1860, at the start of this era
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
There is a limit to the amount of times that aluminum, can be recycled, true or false?
False
400
Uneven heating of the earth provides this source of energy
What is wind energy?
400
The process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density for purely economic reasons
What is factor farming?
400
The type of gas that is a product of decomposition and is sometimes collected from the landfill to generate electricity
What is methane gas?
400
The average American person generates approximately this many pounds of trash per day
What is 4 pounds?
500
This kind of car has two engines – one is an efficient internal combustion engine, the other is an electric engine.
What is a hybrid car?
500
The number one greenhouse gas that livestock produce
What is methane?
500
When scientists use ice cores to investigate what the climate of Earth was like in the past, they are looking for a relationship between temperature and_ .
What is carbon dioxide?
500
Americans throw away this many Styrofoam cups per year