This gas is the number one earth warming pollutant that is threatening our planet.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
These two chemicals leak out of your car and are very bad when they are washed into the drains.
What are antifreeze and oil?
100
There is more of this chemical in the air than there was in the past 800,000 years.
What is carbon dioxide.
100
Half the world’s tropical forests have been cleared or degraded. Every hour, at least this many acres of forest fall to chain saws, machetes, flames, or bulldozers.
a. 4.5 acres
b. 10 acres
c. 15.5 acres
What is 4.5 acres.
100
50 years ago there were over 100,000 tigers, now there are approximately this many left.
a. 3,200
b. 4,000
c. 5,400
What is 3,200.
200
This pollutant is a component of smog and is also caused by acid rain.
What is sulfur dioxide?
200
Washing your car here is bad for the environment.
What is in your own driveway.
(Instead wash it on gravel, grass, or at a commercial car wash)
200
The US alone emits this amount of carbon dioxide into the air each year.
a. 6 billion tons
b. 10 billion tons
c. 14 billion tons
What is 6 billion tons.
200
Worldwide, this many people rely on forest products for all or part of their livelihoods.
a. 1.2 million
b. 1.6 billion
c. 2.1 billion
What is 1.6 billion
200
This species is critically endangered and is becoming more and more threatened each day by poachers wanting their horns.
What are rhinoceros.
300
The amount of years in which your life is decreased because of living in metropolitan areas. (LA or New York City)
What is 2 - 3 Years
300
This amount of people die daily from drinking dirty water.
a. 3,000
b. 5,000
c. 10,000
What is 5,000 people?
300
This is one consequence of global warming.
What is drought, severe hurricanes, massive fires, or the melting of polar ice caps.
300
This percent of the worlds paper is used by the US, Europe, and Japan.
a. 67%
b. 72%
c. 81%
What is 72%
300
Dinosaures went extinct this many years ago.
a. 3,000
b. 25 million
c. 65 million
What is 65 million
400
90% of cancer risks are caused by these types of transportation.
What are cars, buses, trucks, ships, and trains?
400
This many people worldwide don't even have access to safe drinking water.
a. 1 million
b. 5 million
c. 1 billion
What is 1 billion people?
400
According the the US Global Change Research Program, the temperature in the US has increased by this much in the last 50 years.
a. 2 degrees
b. 3 degrees
c. 5 degrees
What is 2 degrees.
400
This many hectares are lost each year to deforestation. It is the equivalent to 36 football fields.
a. 9-10 million
b. 12-15 million
c. 17-19 million
What is 12-15 hectares.
400
Out of the seven species of sea turtles, this many are already threatened or endangered.
What is 6 out of the 7.
By the time our generation has passed, sea turtles will be gone.
500
Sitting in your car while in bumper-to-bumper traffic increases the smog content in the air around you this many times.
a. 5
b. 10
c. 20
What is 10 times?
500
This many pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. (Most of which is plastic)
a. 10 million pounds
b. 500 million pounds
c. 14 billion pounds
What is 14 billion pounds.
500
In the last century, sea levels risen roughly this many inches after not having changed noticeably in the previous 2,000 years. Sea levels rising are an effect of global warming and put many states at risk of existing in the near future.
a. 3 inches
b. 7 inches
c. 12 inches
What is 7 inches.
500
Deforestation causes this percent of greenhouse gas emission.
a. 10%
b. 15%
c. 20%
What is 15%
500
This animal starred in the movie "Madagascar" and is becoming extinct due to deforestation.