Environmental Jeopardy 1
Environmental Jeopardy 2
Environmental Jeopardy 3
Environmental Jeopardy 4
Environmental Jeopardy 5
100
e-waste is short for
What is electronic waste?
100
A synonym for the word "toxic"
Answer will vary (What is harmful, deadly, poisonous, etc.?)
100
A synonym for recycle is
Answer will vary (i.e., What is reuse?)
100
Name one kind of material that can be recycled.
Answer will vary (i.e., What are electronic parts, aluminum, glass, paper, etc.?)
100

EPA stands for

What is Environmental Protection Agency?

200
Examples of e-waste include
Answers will vary (i.e., What are TVs, computers, cell phones, printers, etc.?)
200
An antonym for the word "toxic"
Answer will vary (i.e., What is healthy, harmless, etc.?)
200
The gradual warming of Earth is called __________ ___________.
What is global warming?
200
The amount of energy saved by one single 12 ounce soda can could light a bulb for almost _____ hours.
What is 4?
200

A synonym for hazards is ______________.

Answer will vary (i.e., What are dangers, threats, risks, etc.?)

300
The U.S. government agency that was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
300

Garbage buried between layers of soil is called

What is a landfill?

300
Rising temperatures might cause plants and animals to become ________________.
What is extinct?
300
_____________________ is a process of reusing something rather than throwing it away.
What is recycling?
300
The collective group of wild animals is called ________________.
What is wildlife?
400
a facility that burns trash is call an
What is an incinerator?
400
One way people can help reduce e-waste is ____________
Answers will vary (i.e., What is consider electronics made with fewer toxic chemicals, Choose products that will last several years, Don't replace electronic items until you really need to, etc.?)
400
What are some possible effects of global warming?
Answers will vary (i.e., What is animal extinction, rising sea levels, droughts, flooding, spread of human diseases, etc.?)
400
By recycling paper, fewer _________ must be cut down.
What are trees?
400
Having no living members of a species
What is extinct?
500
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem is called
What is biodiversity?
500

Worldwide, people discard enough e-waste to fill a train that stretches around the ____________.

What is globe or world?

500

The 3Rs of environmental protection are ___________, ____________, and ____________.

What are reduce, reuse, recycle?

500
Unsuspecting turtles eat plastic trash, mistaking it for ____________.
What is food?
500
The contamination of the air, water, or a place with harmful or poisonous substances
What is pollution?
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