What is converting waste into a reusable material.
100
What is Global Warming?
What is heat from the sun that gets trapped under a blanket and the earth begins to feel to hot. The earth cannot kick off the cover to cool down.
100
What is pollution?
what is happening when the environment is contaminated, or dirtied, by waste, chemicals, and other harmful substances?
100
What is the percentage of water that earth is covered by?
What is 70%
100
Solve this riddle:
I am a mode of transportation that uses both gas and electric.
I can double your miles per gallon.
What I am?
What is a hybrid.
200
The United States exchanges scraps for technology with what other country?
What is China
200
This gas contributes the most to global warming...
What is carbon dioxide
200
What are three forms of pollution?
What is air, noise, oil spills
(answers may vary)
200
What is the percentage of water in the earths ocean?
What is 97%
200
Solve this riddle:
I am a way of saving energy.
I get my energy from the sun.
I have pannels.
What am I?
What is a solar pannel
300
How many pounds of trash is produced by a indvidual daily?
What is 4.6 pounds
300
Name three man made factors that effect global warming
What is cars, factories, and electric power plants
(answers may vary)
300
How much gas emitted into the atmosphere is the United States responsible for?
What is 30.3%
300
Flushing a regular toliet uses how many gallons of water?
What is 3-7 gallons
300
Solve this riddle:
I am used in every day life.
I am a convienence item.
I am a man made item.
You can choose to reuse or recycle me.
What am I?
What is plastic.
400
The abbreviation of EPA stands for...?
What is Environmental Protection Agency
400
Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and nitrous-oxide are examples of...?
What are green house gases
400
What is responsible for 40-90% of the world's air pollution?
What is cars
400
What is a drought?
What is little to no water is falling during the crop season and the ground isn't getting enough to drink.
400
Cause and Effect.
Cause: Cities start to put tax on plastic and paper bags.
What is a positive effect?
What is people will start using reusable bags.
(answers may vary)
500
This is nation wide organization that promotes reuse on many goods that might have otherwise ended up in a landfill...
What is ReDO
500
Describe the green house effect...
What is when direct sunlight heads towards earth, it passes through green house gases. Some of the sunlight is reflected off of the clouds back into space, but mostly absorbed by earth.
(answer may vary)
500
What are some ways that we can stop pollution?
What is carpooling, reduse reuse recycle, less running water
(answers may vary)
500
What is acid rain?
What is smoke from factories are mixed with the water from the air. The mixture forms acid that comes back down to earth in rain and snow.
500
Since biodeisel is made from crops grown by farmers in the United States, how can it help us?
What is helping us become less dependent on fuels imported from other countries.