Make A Choice
These personal transportation vehicles use both renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy.
What is hybrid car?
These animals are most negatively effected by the melting glaciers.
What are polar bears?
Name three materials that can be recycled.
What is paper, plastic, and glass?
The most abundant naturally occurring gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This fossil fuel comes from the remains of ancient plants.
What is coal?
Electronic gadgets you can turn on with a remote, appliances with a digital clock or power adapter all use power even when turned off. They are known as "energy" this monster.
What are "energy vampires"?
As the temperature rises, the ice caps are at risk. There are currently this many polar ice caps in the world.
What are two (northern and southern)?
This is the amount of trash, in pounds, the average American throws away daily.
What is four pounds of trash?
A device used to measure how much light is getting to a surface and is reflected off.
What is a light meter?
All fossil fuels are found here.
Sunlight that is captured and converted into electricity used to power homes, businesses, and cars.
What is solar energy?
This occurs to the melting ice caps when the temperature rises.
What is (calving) breaking off into the sea and retreating on land?
In order to reduce the amount of plastic waste, Suffolk County has banned the use of these in stores.
What are plastic bags?
This country produces the most carbon dioxide emissions.
What is China?
Energy sources that cannot be replaced once they are used up.
What are nonrenewable fuels?
One way you can reduce your carbon footprint is to do this with all of your electronic devices.
What is unplug them (turning them off is not enough)?
Rising seas endanger these areas by increasing flooding and storm surge, making dangerous weather events even more dangerous.
What are coastlines and islands?
One of the biggest problems in the world today is the staggering amount of e-waste. The "e" in "e-waste" is an abbreviation for this.
What is electronic (electronic waste)?
Solar panels on roofs convert energy from the sun into this type of energy to reduce the need for fossil fuels.
What is electrical energy?
These are the three most important fossil fuels.
What are coal, petroleum (oil), and natural gas.
One of the lowest priced energy sources available that does not pollute the air but cannot be mounted on a house.
What is wind energy?
This is at the root of the rising temperatures, leading to the melting of the ice caps.
What are human activities?
These are the Three R's that help to decrease the effects of climate change.
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
The process by which plants release oxygen into the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
Gasoline is refined from this type of fossil fuel.
What is patroleum?