Natural Resources
This type of energy is produced from the sun
What is solar energy?
True or False, Paper can be recycled indefinitely.
What is false?
True or False, The average hamburger takes over 600 gallons of water to produce.
What is true?
The following was recycled the most.
What are cars?
Which of these are careers not involved in the environment.
What is "none of the above"?
Each passenger car tire contains seven gallons of this
What is oil?
This natural resource is used to make paper.
What are trees?
The human body is made up of this much water.
What is 70%?
When materials are recycled into a lesser quality product it is given this name.
What is downcycling?
What do we call an organism that is not native to an area (was introduced) and has negative effects on our economy, environment, and/or health.
What is invasive species?
As much as 5 to 10 feet of decaying plant matter is needed to produce a foot of this natural resource.
What is coal?
Recycling a ton of paper saves this many trees.
What is 17?
True or False, An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country uses in an entire day.
What is true?
Recycling one ton of steel saves 1,400 pounds of this natural resource.
What is coal?
The following is a result of ground level ozone.
What is both a & b
This is the largest natural lake in Indiana.
What is Lake Wawasee?
This many tons of paper and paperboard are used in the United States each year.
What is 70 million tons?
The area of land where all of the water drains to a common place.
What is watershed?
Each year Americans throw away this many styrofoam cups.
What is 250 million?
The majority of the world’s fresh water is found on this continent.
What is Antarctica?
Indiana has this many underground coal mines.
What is 7?
Paper can be recycled into the following items.
What is "all of the above"?
True or False, The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons; most of which runs through toilets, taps, and garden hoses at home.
What is false?
Electric arc furnaces used to make steel usually accept up to this much recycled steel to make new steel?
What is 90%?
Oxygen and this gas make up 99 percent of the air we breathe.
What is nitrogen?