Endangered Species
What is the primary cause of endangered species?
What is Habitat Loss. (Due to things like pollution, invasive species, and disease)
What is the leading cause of air pollution?
What is the Burning of Fossil Fuel.
As of 2023, what percentage of energy used is renewable? (Within 15%).
What is 21.4%.
What day is Earth Day?
When is April 22nd.
How can you know if a container is recyclable just by looking at it?
What is checking for the arrow triangle recycling symbol.
Out of these Species, which one is an endangered animal?
Aardvark. Blue whale. American alligator. Northern Brown Kiwi.
What is the Blue Whale.
Can you spell N2O, a prevalent greenhouse gas?
What is Nitrous Oxide.
What is green energy?
What is Renewable Energy that causes little to no Harm to the Environment.
What was the first National Park created in the U.S.?
Yellowstone National Park.
As of September 2025 in the U.S., what percentage of people have access to composting services/programs? (Within 10% for the correct answer)
What is 36%
What is Michigan's only venomous snake?
What is the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake.
Can you name two of the top three most prevalent greenhouse gasses in our air?
What is Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide.
Which of these energy sources are not truly sustainable?
Water Wheels.
Nuclear Fission.
Windmills.
Geothermal Extraction.
What is nuclear fission. (Uranium is a limited resource).
Which youth activist began the Fridays for the Future Movement? (Supporting lessening the effects of climate change by protesting).
Who is Greta Thunberg.
Which of these foods are not compostable in Roeper's Compost bin?
Napkins
Ice Cream
Gummy Bears
Spagetti
What is ice cream.
What is the ICUN Red List?
What is a list of endangered species and the level of risk they have of extinction.
Ocean currents can cause polluted plastics to build up over time forming huge clumps of plastic called garbage patches. The biggest garbage patch holds 1.8 trillion pieces of trash. What is this garbage patch's name?
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Can you name three out of the five countries that use the highest amount of solar panels?
Where is
1. China
2. The United States of America
3. Japan
4. Germany
5. India
Can you name two out of the top three most visited national parks?
What is the,
1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
2. Grand Canyon National Park
3. Zion National Park
Who is the current Michigan governor, that you can call about environmental issues to?
Who is Gretchen Whitmer.
What is the most endangered animal in the world?
What is the Vaquita. (Only ten of these porpoises are left in the world due to overfishing in the Gulf of California)
What company was responsible for the worlds largest oil spill?
What is BP (British Petroleum) Oil.
Can you name four out of the five major types of renewable energy?
What is,
Wind
Solar
Hydropower
Biomass
Geothermal
What President created the first national park, and what year? (within 15 years).
Who is Ulysses S. Grant.
When is 1872.
How does planting a tree near your house helps it to become more energy efficient?
What is insulating the house. (Summer trees block sunlight in summer, and lose their leaves to let sun in in winter. Evergreen trees block wind in winter).