UMD Sustainability
Renewable Energy
Eat Your Greens
Climate Change
I Recycle Because
100

There are two types of bins UMD has and provides on Campus? 

What are recycling and trash bins?

100

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

An organization on campus that takes leftover dining hall food to local shelters.

What is the Food Recovery Network?

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

UMD's Transportation system that has set an action plan to reduce Carbon emissions by 60% in 2025

What is DOTS climate action plan?

300

The splitting is called fission, the coming together of atoms is called fusion

What is nuclear energy?

300

When food is disposed of 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 number of times that aluminum, can be recycled, true or false?

False

400

All new buildings on campus have to meet a certain code

What is LEED Gold or Silver?

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 Factory 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

Significantly regulated stormwater to protect water quality.

What is stormwater management? 

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

What is 25,000,000,000 (25 billion)?

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