Get Charged Up! (energy)
Most of the energy Americans use at home and school comes from burning this
What are fossil fuels - coal, oil, natural gas?
This gas fills our insulated windows, further reducing our heating and cooling energy usage
What is Argon gas? (also acceptable- Krypton gas)
These floor coverings in the Watershed Institute are made from recycled airplane and truck tires.
What are floor mats and carpeting
An area of land that drains into a specific body of water
What is a watershed?
This provides the energy that powers the water cycle
What is the sun?
Most of the energy needed to operate the Watershed Center comes directly from the sun, captured by this building feature
What are solar panels/photovoltaics?
These two materials help to reduce the transfer of heat within the Low E Coating.
What are fiberglass and vinyl?
The countertops in the Watershed building are made using these three sustainable materials.
What is recycled paper, petroleum free resin and natural pigments.
Formed 200 million years ago by an igneous intrusion, this mountain region forms the headwaters of the Stony Brook
What are the Sourland Mountains?
In this phase of the water cycle, water leaves the interior of plants and enters the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
By utilizing solar power, the Watershed Center minimizes the release of this greenhouse gas
What is carbon dioxide?
Toilets are flushed using ___ collected from our roof gutters.
What is rainwater?
A brand of linoleum floor covering made primarily from plants using linseed oil, rosin from pine trees and jute from plants.
What is Marmoleum
Flowing south to north, this 38 mile long river drains into the Raritan River
What is the Millstone River?
Almost 70% of the Earth's fresh water is used each year for this purpose
What is Agriculture?
Taking advantage of the earth’s steady underground temperature, The Watershed Center uses this type of energy to reduce the electricity needed for heating and cooling
What is geothermal energy?
This natural/passive ventilation system helps cool the building in the summer months by allowing ___ to rise and escape through the high vents on the building's northern wall.
What is hot air?
___ is a renewable resource that is removed from trees without killing them.
Originating from the Sourland Mountains, this is the Millstone River’s largest tributary
What is the Stony Brook?
The percentage of Earth's water that is available for human use
What is 0.003%?
Energy needs in the Watershed Center are reduced by use of these THREE types of lighting
What is natural day lighting, fluorescent lighting and LED lighting?
Air has been vacuumed out of glass tubes eliminating heat losses by ___ and ___
What are convection and conduction?
While not considered renewable, ___ is the most common mineral on the face of the earth.
What is Quartz
This historically important migratory fish has had its streams and rivers blocked by dams built to power mills
What is the American shad?
Two opposite natural disasters that are occuring more frequently as global temperatures increase from climate change
What are floods and droughts?